Viewing MailerSend Data in RAD Studio Data Explorer

Embarcadero RAD Studio provides a development environment for Delphi and C++Builder applications. With the CData ODBC Driver for MailerSend, you gain access to live MailerSend data within RAD Studio, abstracting the data into tables, views, and stored procedures that can be used to both retrieve MailerSend data. This article will walk through connecting to MailerSend using the Data Explorer.

Configure a Connection to MailerSend

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

The MailerSend API uses API Key authentication via a Bearer token in the Authorization request header.

Using API Key Authentication

Your MailerSend API token is required to create a connection. To obtain your API token:

1. Log into your MailerSend account at app.mailersend.com.
2. Navigate to Settings > API Tokens in your account dashboard.
3. Click Generate new token, provide a name and select the appropriate permissions.
4. Copy the generated API token.

After obtaining your API token, set the following connection properties:

• AuthScheme: Set this to APIKey.
• APIKey: Set this to your MailerSend API token.

Example connection string:

Profile=C:\profiles\Mailersend.apip;AuthScheme=APIKey;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_token';

Connecting to MailerSend Data Using Data Explorer

You can create a simple application for displaying MailerSend data by utilizing the CData FireDAC Components for MailerSend and a new VCL Forms Application:

1. Open the Data Explorer in RAD Studio and expand FireDAC.
2. Right-click the ODBC Data Source node in the Data Explorer.
3. Click Add New Connection. 👁 Adding a New Connection. (Salesforce is shown.)
   
4. Enter a name for the connection.
5. In the FireDAC Connection Editor that appears, set the DataSource property to the name of the ODBC DSN for MailerSend. 👁 Setting the Connection Parameters. (Salesforce is shown.)
   
6. Back in the Data Explorer, expand the views for the connection.

7. Create a new VCL Forms application and drag a view (for example: Activity) onto the form.

   👁 Placing the View on the Form. (Salesforce is shown.)
   
8. Select the ActivityView object on the form and set the Active property to true.

9. Right-click on the object, bind visually, and link everything (*) to a new control (TStringGrid).

   👁 Visually Binding the View. (Salesforce is shown.)
   

10. Arrange the TStringGrid on the form and run the application to see the Activity data.

    👁 The View data on a Form. (Salesforce is shown.)
    

Related Articles

Below you can find other articles for using the CData ODBC Driver with RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++ Builder.

• DataBind Controls to MailerSend Data in C++Builder
• DataBind Controls to MailerSend Data in Delphi
• Build a Simple VCL Application for MailerSend Data