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โ‡ฑ Create Informatica Mappings From/To a JDBC Data Source for Zoom


Create Informatica Mappings From/To a JDBC Data Source for Zoom

๐Ÿ‘ Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Create Zoom data objects in Informatica using the standard JDBC connection process: Copy the JAR and then connect.

Informatica provides a powerful, elegant means of transporting and transforming your data. By utilizing the CData JDBC Driver for Zoom, you are gaining access to a driver based on industry-proven standards that integrates seamlessly with Informatica's powerful data transportation and manipulation features. This tutorial shows how to transfer and browse Zoom data in Informatica PowerCenter.

Deploy the Driver

To deploy the driver to the Informatica PowerCenter server, copy the CData JAR and .lic file, located in the lib subfolder in the installation directory, to the following folder: Informatica-installation-directory\services\shared\jars\thirdparty.

To work with Zoom data in the Developer tool, you will need to copy the CData JAR and .lic file, located in the lib subfolder in the installation directory, into the following folders:

  • Informatica-installation-directory\client\externaljdbcjars
  • Informatica-installation-directory\externaljdbcjars

Create the JDBC Connection

Follow the steps below to connect from Informatica Developer:

  1. In the Connection Explorer pane, right-click your domain and click Create a Connection.
  2. In the New Database Connection wizard that is displayed, enter a name and Id for the connection and in the Type menu select JDBC.
  3. In the JDBC Driver Class Name property, enter:
    cdata.jdbc.api.APIDriver
  4. In the Connection String property, enter the JDBC URL, using the connection properties for Zoom.

    Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Zoom Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Zoom.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Zoom (see below).

    Zoom API Profile Settings

    To authenticate to Zoom, you can use the OAuth standard to connect to your own data or to allow other users to connect to their data.

    First create an OAuth app. To do so, navigate to https://marketplace.zoom.us/develop/create and click Create under the OAuth section. Select whether or not the app will be for individual users or for the entire account, and uncheck the box to publish the app. Give the app a name and click Create. You will then be given your Client Secret and Client ID

    After setting the following connection properties, you are ready to connect:

    • AuthScheme: Set this to OAuth.
    • InitiateOAuth: Set this to GETANDREFRESH. You can use InitiateOAuth to manage the process to obtain the OAuthAccessToken.
    • OAuthClientID: Set this to the OAuth Client ID that is specified in your app settings.
    • OAuthClientSecret: Set this to the OAuth Client Secret that is specified in your app settings.
    • CallbackURL: Set this to the Redirect URI you specified in your app settings.

    Built-in Connection String Designer

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

    java -jar cdata.jdbc.api.jar
    

    Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

    ๐Ÿ‘ Using the built-in connection string designer to generate a JDBC URL (Salesforce is shown.)

    A typical connection string is below:

    jdbc:api:Profile=C:\profiles\Zoom.apip;Authscheme=OAuth;OAuthClientId=your_client_id;OAuthClientSecret=your_client_secret;CallbackUrl=your_callback_url;

Browse Zoom Tables

After you have added the driver JAR to the classpath and created a JDBC connection, you can now access Zoom entities in Informatica. Follow the steps below to connect to Zoom and browse Zoom tables:

  1. Connect to your repository.
  2. In the Connection Explorer, right-click the connection and click Connect.
  3. Clear the Show Default Schema Only option. ๐Ÿ‘ The driver models Zoom entities as relational tables. (Salesforce is shown.)

You can now browse Zoom tables in the Data Viewer: Right-click the node for the table and then click Open. On the Data Viewer view, click Run.

๐Ÿ‘ Table data and metadata in the Data Viewer. (Salesforce is shown.)

Create Zoom Data Objects

Follow the steps below to add Zoom tables to your project:

  1. Select tables in Zoom, then right-click a table in Zoom, and click Add to Project.
  2. In the resulting dialog, select the option to create a data object for each resource.
  3. In the Select Location dialog, select your project.

    Create a Mapping

    Follow the steps below to add the Zoom source to a mapping:

    1. In the Object Explorer, right-click your project and then click New -> Mapping.
    2. Expand the node for the Zoom connection and then drag the data object for the table onto the editor.
    3. In the dialog that appears, select the Read option.
    ๐Ÿ‘ The source Zoom table in the mapping. (Salesforce is shown.)

    Follow the steps below to map Zoom columns to a flat file:

    1. In the Object Explorer, right-click your project and then click New -> Data Object.
    2. Select Flat File Data Object -> Create as Empty -> Fixed Width.
    3. In the properties for the Zoom object, select the rows you want, right-click, and then click copy. Paste the rows into the flat file properties.
    4. Drag the flat file data object onto the mapping. In the dialog that appears, select the Write option.
    5. Click and drag to connect columns.

    To transfer Zoom data, right-click in the workspace and then click Run Mapping.

    ๐Ÿ‘ The completed mapping. (Salesforce is shown.)