Connect to OData Services in Aqua Data Studio

Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism

Access OData services from tools in Aqua Data Studio such as the Visual Query Builder and the Table Data Editor.

The CData JDBC Driver for OData integrates OData services with wizards and analytics in IDEs like Aqua Data Studio. This article shows how to connect to OData services through the connection manager and execute queries.

About OData Data Integration

CData simplifies access and integration of live OData services data. Our customers leverage CData connectivity to:

Access OData versions 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0, working with legacy services and the latest features and capabilities.
Leverage advanced query options, including $filter, $select, and $expand, enhancing data retrieval from 3rd party tools.
Use Server-side execution of aggregation and grouping to minimize data transfer and boost performance.
Authenticate securely using a variety of schemes, including Azure AD, digest, negotiate, NTLM, OAuth, and more means secure authentication with every connection.
Use SQL stored procedures to manage OData service entities - listing, creating, and removing associations between entities.

Customers use CData's solutions to regularly integrate their OData services with preferred tools, such as Power BI, MicroStrategy, or Tableau, and to replicate data from OData services to their databases or data warehouses.

Getting Started

Create a JDBC Data Source

You can use the connection manager to define connection properties and save them in a new JDBC data source. The OData data source can then be accessed from Aqua Data Studio tools.

In Aqua Data Studio, select Register Server from the Servers menu.
In the Register Server form, select the 'Generic - JDBC' connection.
Enter the following JDBC connection properties:
- Name: Enter a name for the data source; for example, OData.
- Driver Location: Click the Browse button and select the cdata.jdbc.odata.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
- Driver: Enter the Driver's class name, cdata.jdbc.odata.ODataDriver.
- URL: Enter the JDBC URL, which starts with jdbc:odata: and is followed by a semicolon-separated list of connection properties.
  
  The User and Password properties, under the Authentication section, must be set to valid OData user credentials. In addition, specify a URL to a valid OData server organization root or OData services file.
  
  Built-in Connection String Designer
  
  For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the OData JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.
```
java -jar cdata.jdbc.odata.jar
```
  Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.
  👁 Using the built-in connection string designer to generate a JDBC URL (Salesforce is shown.)
  A typical JDBC URL is below:
```
jdbc:odata:URL=http://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc;UseIdUrl=True;OData Version=4.0;Data Format=ATOM;
```
👁 The JDBC data source, defined by the JAR path, driver class, and JDBC URL. (QuickBooks is shown.)

Query OData Services

You can now query the tables exposed.

👁 A query executed in the Table Data Editor. (QuickBooks is shown.)

Ready to get started?

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