• Supports Django 5.1
• Tested on Tibero 6 FS07_CS_2005, Tibero 6.7, Tibero 7.2
• Passes most of the tests of the Django test suite

• pyodbc 5.0 or newer

1. Install pyodbc 5.0 (or newer) and Django

2. Install django-tibero:

   pip install django-tibero
   

This example demonstrates how to configure the connection using the Tibero ODBC driver in Django. The key aspect is specifying the driver in the OPTIONS section, as UnixODBC uses this value to determine which driver to load. The driver must be defined in the odbcinst.ini file.

settings.py Configuration

# driver option is necessary because UnixODBC uses the value to choose driver.
# the value must exist in odbcinst.ini.
DATABASES = {
    "ENGINE": "django_tibero",
    "HOST": "127.0.0.1",
    "PORT": 8629,
    "NAME": "tibero",  # SID name
    "USER": "tibero",
    "PASSWORD": "tmax",
    "OPTIONS": {
        "driver": "Tibero7Driver"
    }
}

odbcinst.ini Configuration

[Tibero7Driver]
Description=ODBC Driver for Tibero 7
Driver=/home/tibero7/client/lib/libtbodbc.so

This example demonstrates how to configure a connection using a DSN (Data Source Name) defined in the odbc.ini file. The DSN contains the connection details.

settings.py Configuration

# dsn name from odbc.ini. In this case, odbc.ini may contain
# user, password. This example overrides DSN user and DSN password if
# user, password exist in odbc.ini file. 
DATABASES = {
    "ENGINE": "django_tibero",
    "USER": "django-user",
    "PASSWORD": "django-password",
    "OPTIONS": {
        "dsn": "Tibero7DSN"  # DSN name from odbc.ini
    }
}

/etc/odbc.ini Configuration

[Tibero7DSN]
Description = Tibero7 ODBC Datasource
Driver      = Tibero7Driver
SID         = tibero7

The following keys in the DATABASES setting control the behavior of the backend:

• ENGINE

  • String. Must be set to "django_tibero". Required.

• NAME

  • String. The SID name of the Tibero database. Optional.

• HOST

  • String. The database server address. Example: "127.0.0.1", "localhost". Optional.

• PORT

  • String or Integer. The server instance port. Optional.

• USER

  • String. The database username. Optional.

• PASSWORD

  • String. The database user password. Optional.

In addition to the basic settings, you can configure advanced options using the OPTIONS dictionary in the DATABASES setting. These options allow you to control various aspects of the database connection and query behavior:

• driver

  • String. Specifies the ODBC driver name as defined in odbcinst.ini.
  • driver or dsn option is required because unixodbc uses this option to choose driver.
  • Example: "Tibero7Driver"

• dsn

  • String. Specifies the Data Source Name (DSN) as defined in odbc.ini.
  • driver or dsn option is required because unixodbc uses this option to choose driver.
  • Example: "TiberoDSN"

• connection_timeout

  • Type: Integer
  • Description: Specifies the timeout for the connection attempt, in seconds.
  • Default: 0 (no timeout)
  • Behavior: Passed to the timeout parameter of pyodbc.connect().

• connection_retries

  • Type: Integer
  • Description: Defines the number of retry attempts if a connection fails.
  • Default: 5
  • Behavior: If the initial connection attempt fails, the backend retries up to this number of times.

• connection_retry_backoff_time

  • Type: Integer
  • Description: Specifies the wait time (in seconds) between connection retry attempts.
  • Default: 5
  • Behavior: The system waits this amount of time before retrying a failed connection attempt.

• query_timeout

  • Type: Integer
  • Description: Sets the timeout for SQL queries, in seconds.
  • Default: 0 (no timeout)
  • Behavior:
    • This timeout applies to all queries executed via the connection.
    • If a query exceeds this timeout, the database raises an OperationalError with SQLSTATE HYT00 or HYT01.
    • Passed to the timeout property of the pyodbc connection object.

• setencoding

  • Type: String
  • Description: Defines the text encoding for SQL statements and text parameters.
  • Behavior:
    • Passed to the setencoding() method of the pyodbc connection.
    • Must be a valid Python encoding (e.g., "utf-8").

• setdecoding

  • Type: String
  • Description: Defines the text decoding method for reading SQL_CHAR or SQL_WCHAR values from the database.
  • Behavior:
    • Passed to the setdecoding() method of the pyodbc connection.
    • Must be a valid Python encoding (e.g., "utf-16le").

The following logic explains how options are used when UnixODBC calls the driver’s SQLDriverConnect() function.

1. Before connection string is passed to pyodbc.connect() method. Following logic inside django-tibero backend transforms options in settings.py. And then, transform to ODBC Connection String. This logic is not handled in Tibero driver.

cstr_parts = {
    'DRIVER': options.get('driver', None),
    'DSN': options.get('dsn', None),
    'Server': conn_params.get('HOST', None),
    'Database': conn_params.get('NAME', None),
    'Port': str(conn_params.get('PORT', None)),
    'User': conn_params.get('USER', None),
    'Password': conn_params.get('PASSWORD', None),

# Example of connection_string is "Driver=Tibero7Driver;Server=127.0.0.1;Port=8629;Database=tibero7;User=django;Password=password"
connection_string = odbc_connection_string_from_settings(cstr_parts)

connection = pyodbc.connect(connection_string)

2. Connection Logic inside Tibero Driver

REQUIRED_KEYWORDS = ['Server', 'IpAddress', 'Port', 'Database', 'User', 'Password']
    
IF Server keyword is in connection string:
    IF NOT all(keyword in connection string for keyword in REQUIRED_KEYWORDS):
        RAISE ConnectionError("Missing required connection parameters")
    ELSE:
        Use REQUIRED_KEYWORDS in the connection string to connect


ELSE IF 'DSN' keyword is in connection_string:
    # find odbc.ini file
    IF environment_variable_exists('ODBCINI'):
        config_file = $ODBCINI
    ELSE IF file_exists('$HOME/.odbc.ini'):
        config_file = '$HOME/.odbc.ini'
    ELSE:
        config_file = '/etc/odbc.ini'

    IF 'Server' or 'IpAddress' exists in config_file:
        REQUIRE 'Port' and ('Database' or 'DB') in config_file
        
        IF 'User' or 'Password' in connection_string:
            Override credentials, otherwise use 'User' and 'Password key/value from config_file 
     
        Connect to Tibero Database 
    ELSE:
        USE credentials from tbdsn.tbr
        
        IF 'User' or 'Password' in connection_string:
            Override credentials, otherwise use 'User' and 'Password key/value from config_file
        Connect to Tibero Database