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⇱ Access Live OData Services in TIBCO Data Virtualization

Access Live OData Services in TIBCO Data Virtualization

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Use the OData Tibco DV Adapter to create a OData services source in TIBCO Data Virtualization Studio and gain access to live OData services from your TDV Server.

TIBCO Data Virtualization (TDV) is an enterprise data virtualization solution that orchestrates access to multiple and varied data sources. When paired with the OData Tibco DV Adapter, you get federated access to live OData services directly within TIBCO Data Virtualization. This article explains how to deploy an adapter and create a new data source based on OData.

With built-in optimized data processing, the CData TIBCO DV Adapter offers unmatched performance for interacting with live OData services. When you issue complex SQL queries to OData, the adapter pushes supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to OData. Its built-in dynamic metadata querying allows you to work with and analyze OData services using native data types.

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


Deploy the OData TIBCO DV Adapter

  1. In a console, navigate to the bin folder in the TDV Server installation directory. If there is a current version of the adapter installed, you will need to undeploy it.

    .\server_util.bat -server localhost -user admin -password ******** -undeploy -version 1 -name OData

  2. Extract the CData TIBCO DV Adapter to a local folder and deploy the JAR file (tdv.odata.jar) to the server from the extract location.

    .\server_util.bat -server localhost -user admin -password ******** -deploy -package /PATH/TO/tdv.odata.jar

You may need to restart the server to ensure the new JAR file is loaded properly, which can be accomplished by running the composite.bat script located at: C:\Program Files\TIBCO\TDV Server <version>\bin. Note that reauthenticating to the TDV Studio is required after restarting the server.

Sample Restart Call

.\composite.bat monitor restart
Once you deploy the adapter, you can create a new data source in TDV Studio for OData.

Create a OData Data Source in TDV Studio

With the OData Tibco DV Adapter, you can easily create a data source for OData and introspect the data source to add resources to TDV.

Create the Data Source

  1. Right-click on the folder you wish to add the data source to and select New -> New Data Source
  2. Scroll until you find the adapter (e.g. OData) and click Next
  3. Name the data source (e.g. CData OData Source)
  4. Fill in the required connection properties

    5. 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.

    👁 Filling in Connection Information (Salesforce is shown.)
  5. Click Create & Close.

Introspect the Data Source

Once the data source is created, you can introspect the data source by right-clicking and selecting Open. In the dashboard, click Add/Remove Resources and select the Tables, Views, and Stored Procedures to include as part of the data source. Click Next and Finish to add the selected OData tables, views, and stored procedures as resources.

👁 Introspecting the Data Source (Salesforce is shown.)

After creating and introspecting the data source, you are ready to work with OData services in TIBCO Data Virtualization just like you would any other relational data source. You can create views, query using SQL, publish the data source, and more.