Connect to Reckon Accounts Hosted Data in RapidMiner

This article shows how you can easily integrate the CData JDBC driver for Reckon Accounts Hosted into your processes in RapidMiner. This article uses the CData JDBC Driver for Reckon Accounts Hosted to transfer Reckon Accounts Hosted data to a process in RapidMiner.

Connect to Reckon Accounts Hosted in RapidMiner as a JDBC Data Source

You can follow the procedure below to establish a JDBC connection to Reckon Accounts Hosted:

1. Add a new database driver for Reckon Accounts Hosted: Click Connections -> Manage Database Drivers.
2. In the resulting wizard, click the Add button and enter a name for the connection.
3. Enter the prefix for the JDBC URL:

   jdbc:reckonaccountshosted:
   

4. Enter the path to the cdata.jdbc.reckonaccountshosted.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
5. Enter the driver class:

   cdata.jdbc.reckonaccountshosted.ReckonAccountsHostedDriver
   

   👁 The JDBC driver configuration. (Salesforce is shown.)
   
6. Create a new Reckon Accounts Hosted connection: Click Connections -> Manage Database Connections.
7. Enter a name for your connection.
8. For Database System, select the Reckon Accounts Hosted driver you configured previously.
9. Enter your connection string in the Host box.

   The connector makes requests to Reckon Accounts Hosted through OAuth. Specify the following connection properties:

   • SubscriptionKey: Required. You get this value when you created your developer account.
   • CountryVersion: Defaults to 2021.R2.AU.
   • CompanyFile: Required. The path to the company file.
   • User: Required. The username of the company file.
   • Password: Required. The password of the company file.
   • InitiateOAuth: Set this to GETANDREFRESH to let the driver handle access tokens.
   • CallbackURL: The redirectURI of your Custom OAuth App.
   • OAuthClientId: The client id of your Custom OAuth App.
   • OAuthClientSecret: The client secret of your Custom OAuth App.

   CData provides an embedded OAuth application that simplifies OAuth desktop authentication. See the Help documentation for information on other OAuth authentication methods (web, headless, etc.), creating custom OAuth applications, and reasons for doing so.

   Built-in Connection String Designer

   For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Reckon Accounts Hosted JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

   java -jar cdata.jdbc.reckonaccountshosted.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 connection string is below:

   SubscriptionKey=my_subscription_key;CountryVersion=2021.R2.AU;CompanyFile=Q:/CompanyName.QBW;User=my_user;Password=my_password;CallbackURL=http://localhost:33333;OAuthClientId=my_oauth_client_id;OAuthClientSecret=my_oauth_client_secret;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;
   

10. Enter your username and password if necessary. 👁 The connection to the JDBC data source. (Salesforce is shown.)
    

You can now use your Reckon Accounts Hosted connection with the various RapidMiner operators in your process. To retrieve Reckon Accounts Hosted data, drag the Retrieve operator from the Operators view. 👁 A Retrieve operation to select data. (Salesforce is shown.)
With the Retrieve operator selected, you can then define which table to retrieve in the Parameters view by clicking the folder icon next to the "repository entry." In the resulting Repository Browser, you can expand your connection node to select the desired example set.

Finally, wire the output to the Retrieve process to a result, and run the process to see the Reckon Accounts Hosted data.