mdb

mdbtools port for go

This provides small API for reading Microsoft Jet Database. Currently, this only works for JET3 since reading it is my only purpose.

examples

Example copying to sqlite3.

package main

import (
    "database/sql"
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "os"
    "strings"

    "github.com/arch-mage/mdb"

    _ "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3"
)

func main() {
    if err := copyTables("db.mdb", "db.sqlite3"); err != nil {
        fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
        os.Exit(1)
    }
}

func copyTables(mdbfile, sqlitefile string) error {
    //
    // open sqlite3
    //
    db, err := sql.Open("sqlite3", sqlitefile)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    defer db.Close()

    //
    // open mdb
    //
    file, err := os.Open(mdbfile)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    defer file.Close()

    //
    // list tables
    //
    tables, err := mdb.Tables(file)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }

    //
    // make transaction
    //
    tx, err := db.Begin()
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }

    for _, table := range tables {
        if table.Sys { // skip system table
            continue
        }
        if err := createTable(tx, file, table); err != nil {
            return err
        }
        if err := copyRows(tx, file, table); err != nil {
            return err
        }
    }

    return tx.Commit()
}

func createTable(tx *sql.Tx, file io.ReadSeeker, table mdb.Table) error {
    //
    // prepare type conversion
    //
    var typeConversion = map[string]string{
        "Bool":       "BOOl",
        "Byte":       "BYTE",
        "Int":        "INTEGER",
        "LongInt":    "INTEGER",
        "Money":      "NUMERIC",
        "Float":      "REAL",
        "Double":     "REAL",
        "DateTime":   "DATETIME",
        "Binary":     "BLOB",
        "Text":       "TEXT",
        "LongBinary": "BLOB",
        "LongText":   "TEXT",
        "GUID":       "TEXT",
        "Numeric":    "NUMERIC",
    }

    //
    // collect columns
    //
    columns := make([]string, len(table.Columns))
    for i, column := range table.Columns {
        columns[i] = fmt.Sprintf("%s %s", column.Name, typeConversion[column.Type])
        columns[i] = column.Name
    }

    //
    // construct query
    //
    query := fmt.Sprintf(
        "CREATE TABLE %s (%s)",
        table.Name,
        strings.Join(columns, ", "),
    )

    //
    // execute
    //
    _, err := tx.Exec(query)
    return err
}

func copyRows(tx *sql.Tx, file io.ReadSeeker, table mdb.Table) error {

    //
    // collect columns
    //
    columns := make([]string, len(table.Columns))
    bindings := make([]string, len(table.Columns))
    for i, column := range table.Columns {
        columns[i] = column.Name
        bindings[i] = "?"
    }

    //
    // construct query
    //
    query := fmt.Sprintf(
        "INSERT INTO %s (%s) VALUES (%s)",
        table.Name,
        strings.Join(columns, ", "),
        strings.Join(bindings, ", "),
    )

    //
    // prepare it
    //
    stmt, err := tx.Prepare(query)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    defer stmt.Close()

    //
    // iterate rows
    //
    rows, err := mdb.Rows(file, table.Name)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    for {
        fields, err := rows.Next()
        if err == io.EOF {
            break
        }
        if err != nil {
            return err
        }

        //
        // insert
        //
        if _, err = stmt.Exec(fields...); err != nil {
            return err
        }
    }
    return nil
}