Connect to Odoo Data from a Connection Pool in Jetty

Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism

The Odoo JDBC Driver supports connection pooling: This article shows how to connect faster to Odoo data from Web apps in Jetty.

The CData JDBC driver for Odoo is easy to integrate with Java Web applications. This article shows how to efficiently connect to Odoo data in Jetty by configuring the driver for connection pooling. You will configure a JNDI resource for Odoo in Jetty.

About Odoo Data Integration

Accessing and integrating live data from Odoo has never been easier with CData. Customers rely on CData connectivity to:

Access live data from both Odoo API 8.0+ and Odoo.sh Cloud ERP.
Extend the native Odoo features with intelligent handling of many-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many data properties. CData's connectivity solutions also intelligently handle complex data properties within Odoo. In addition to columns with simple values like text and dates, there are also columns that contain multiple values on each row. The driver decodes these kinds of values differently, depending upon the type of column the value comes from:
- Many-to-one columns are references to a single row within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-one columns are represented as integers, whose value is the ID to which they refer in the other model.
- Many-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-many columns are represented as text containing a comma-separated list of integers. Each value in that list is the ID of a row that is being referenced.
- One-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model - they are similar to many-to-many columns (comma-separated lists of integers), except that each row in the referenced model must belong to only one in the main model.
Use SQL stored procedures to call server-side RFCs within Odoo.

Users frequently integrate Odoo with analytics tools such as Power BI and Qlik Sense, and leverage our tools to replicate Odoo data to databases or data warehouses.

Getting Started

Configure the JDBC Driver for Salesforce as a JNDI Data Source

Follow the steps below to connect to Salesforce from Jetty.

Enable the JNDI module for your Jetty base. The following command enables JNDI from the command-line:
```
java -jar ../start.jar --add-to-startd=jndi
```
Add the CData and license file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory, into the lib subfolder of the context path.

Declare the resource and its scope. Enter the required connection properties in the resource declaration. This example declares the Odoo data source at the level of the Web app, in WEB-INF\jetty-env.xml.

<Configure id='odoodemo' class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
 <New id="odoodemo" class="org.eclipse.jetty.plus.jndi.Resource">
 <Arg><Ref refid="odoodemo"/></Arg>
 <Arg>jdbc/odoodb</Arg>
 <Arg>
 <New class="cdata.jdbc.odoo.OdooDriver">
 <Set name="url">jdbc:odoo:</Set>
 <Set name="User">MyUser</Set>
 <Set name="Password">MyPassword</Set>
 <Set name="URL">http://MyOdooSite/</Set>
 <Set name="Database">MyDatabase</Set>
 </New>
 </Arg>
 </New>
</Configure>

To connect, set the Url to a valid Odoo site, User and Password to the connection details of the user you are connecting with, and Database to the Odoo database.

Configure the resource in the Web.xml:

 jdbc/odoodb
 javax.sql.DataSource
 Container

You can then access Odoo with a lookup to java:comp/env/jdbc/odoodb:

InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
DataSource myodoo = (DataSource)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/odoodb");

More Jetty Integration

The steps above show how to configure the driver in a simple connection pooling scenario. For more use cases and information, see the Working with Jetty JNDI chapter in the Jetty documentation.

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