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SchemaSpy

Quickly run SchemaSpy on a Postgres, MySQL, or SQLite3 database in order to generate a browsable visualization of the tables, columns, and relationships.

Based on openjdk:jre-alpine the resulting image generates the database documentation using SchemaSpy and serves the resulting html using Caddy, and is compatible with OpenShift.

The open source SchemaSpy project is located here: https://github.com/schemaspy/schemaspy

The open source Caddy project is located here; https://github.com/mholt/caddy

Configuration

Configuration is performed using environment varables.

Name Description Example
DATABASE_TYPE The database type being documented. Defaults to pgsql. One of mysql, pgsql, or sqlite. Other database types are supported by SchemaSpy, but their JDBC connector libraries are not currently included in the image.
DATABASE_NAME The name of the database to document. MyDatabase
DATABASE_HOST The hostname of the server postgresql
DATABASE_SCHEMA OPTIONAL - The schema in the database to document. Defaults to public. my_schema
DATABASE_CATALOG OPTIONAL - The catalog in the database to document. With some databases this is used to define the name of the database. my_catalog
DATABASE_DRIVER OPTIONAL - Used to override the default JDBC driver. The scripts attempt to set the driver base on convention using DATABASE_TYPE /app/lib/pgsql-jdbc.jar
DATABASE_USER The username to use when logging into the database. When using OpenShift this should be configured as a secrete. my_user
DATABASE_PASSWORD The password to use when logging into the database. When using OpenShift this should be configured as a secrete. my_password
SCHEMASPY_ARGUMENTS OPTIONAL - Allows you to define additional command line arguments for SchemaSpy -hq to generate high quality output.
SCHEMASPY_COMMAND_OVERRIDE OPTIONAL - Use this to override the SchemaSpy commands and define the commands explicitly. This is intended as a testing and troubleshooting tool. lib/schemaspy.jar -t "pgsql" -db "TheOrgBook_Database" -dp "lib/postgresql-jdbc.jar" -hq -s "public" -u "TheOrgBook_User" -p "*****" -host "postgresql" -o /var/www/html
SCHEMASPY_PORT OPTIONAL - Defaults to 8080. Changing this requires additional code and configuration changes, so it's best to leave it alone. 8080
OUTPUT_PATH OPTIONAL - The output folder for the documentation. Defaults to /var/www/html, which is used by Caddy. Changing this requires additional code and configuration changes, so it's best to leave it alone. /var/www/html
SCHEMASPY_PATH OPTIONAL - The path to the SchemaSpy jar file. Defaults to lib/schemaspy.jar. Changing this requires additional code and configuration changes, so it's best to leave it alone. lib/schemaspy.jar

Configuration - Backward Compatibility

The following environment variables are provided for drop-in backward compatibility with the previous SchemaSpy container implementation that only supported PostgreSQl databases (https://github.com/bcgov/SchemaSpy).

Name Description Example
DATABASE_SERVICE_NAME Use DATABASE_HOST moving forward. The hostname of the server postgresql
POSTGRESQL_USER Use DATABASE_USER moving forward. The username to use when logging into the database. When using OpenShift this should be configured as a secrete. my_user
POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD Use DATABASE_PASSWORD moving forward. The password to use when logging into the database. When using OpenShift this should be configured as a secrete. my_password
POSTGRESQL_DATABASE Use DATABASE_NAME moving forward. The name of the database to document. MyDatabase

Running in OpenShift

The Dockerfile was designed to generate an image that can be used in OpenShift.

As a quick-start (example), the following command will create a BuildConfig, DeploymentConfig, and ancillary resources (service, etc.) in your current OpenShift project.

oc new-app https://github.com/bcgov/SchemaSpy -e DATABASE_TYPE=pgsql -e DATABASE_NAME=default -e DATABASE_HOST=postgresql -e DATABASE_USER=django -e DB_PASSWORD=xyz1234 

For more a more structured build and deployment environment, OpenShift templates can be found in the OpenShift templates folder.

Running in Docker

Build Command

docker build -t schemaspy https://github.com/bcgov/SchemaSpy

Sample MySQL Usage

docker run -ti --rm --name schemaspy \
	-p 8080:8080 \
	-e DATABASE_TYPE=mysql \
	-e DATABASE_HOST=mysql -e DATABASE_NAME=mydatabase \
	-e DATABASE_USER=root -e DATABASE_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword \
	--link mysql \
	schemaspy

Sample Postgres Usage

docker run -ti --rm --name schemaspy \
	-p 8080:8080 \
	-e DATABASE_TYPE=pgsql \
	-e DATABASE_HOST=postgres -e DATABASE_NAME=mydatabase \
	-e DATABASE_USER=postgres -e DATABASE_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword \
	--link postgres \
	schemaspy

Sample SQLite3 Usage

mkdir data && cp mydatabase.sqlite3 data/
docker run -ti --rm --name schemaspy \
	-p 8080:8080 \
	-v "$PWD/data":/app/data \
	-e DATABASE_TYPE=sqlite \
	-e DATABASE_NAME=/app/data/mydatabase.sqlite3 \
	schemaspy

Use on other databases

Oracle

Due to licensing limitations, the JDBC drivers for Oracle are not included in the repository.

Links to the drivers can be found here;

Using the Oracle Thin drivers it is easy to connect to an Oracle database.

The following configuraiton assumes you have downloaded the jar and copied it into the ./lib folder of your working copy and run the following commands to generate the base image followed by the image containing the Oracle JDBC drivers.

docker build -t 'schema-spy' .
docker build -f Dockerfile.oracle -t 'schema-spy-with-oracle-jdbc' .

You can then use the oc-push-image.sh from OpenShift Scripts to push the image to your OpenShift project.

For example:

oc-push-image.sh -i schema-spy-with-oracle-jdbc -n devex-von-bc-registries-agent-tools

Configuration:

Name Value Description
DATABASE_TYPE orathin
DATABASE_NAME CUAT The Oracle SID
DATABASE_SCHEMA COLIN_MGR_UAT The Oracle Schema
DATABASE_CATALOG CUAT.bcgov The Oracle Listener Service Name
DATABASE_USER username
DATABASE_PASSWORD *****
DATABASE_HOST hostname:portnumber Hostname and port number MUST be specified.
DATABASE_DRIVER lib/ora-jdbc.jar

The resulting SchemaSpy command looks something like this;

java -jar lib/schemaspy.jar -t "orathin" -db "CUAT" -dp "lib/ora-jdbc.jar" -s "COLIN_MGR_UAT" -cat "CUAT.bcgov" -u "username" -p "*****" -host "hostname:portnumber" -o /var/www/html

Oracle - Through PostgreSQL oracle-fdw

Work in progress ...

A custom database configuration, pgsql-oracle-fdw.properties, has been started for this purpose.

This allows SchemaSpy to query and graph the Foreign tables imported into PostgreSQL by oracle-fdw.

Current Limitations

The oracle-fdw import process does not import any of the table constraints/relationships for any of the imported tables: since it wouldn't make sense to have constraints on the foreign tables, because PostgreSQL cannot guarantee that these constraints would be satisfied.

Therefore, SchemaSpy will see the tables, but will be unable to wire up the relationships between the tables. The result is a set of orphaned tables.

The recommended approach to fix this issue is to define a set of foreign tables on Oracle's catalog tables. From there it should be possible to write a custom selectCheckConstraintsSql query for the pgsql-oracle-fdw.properties file that can provide SchemaSpy with the information it requires to wire the relationships between the tables.

This requires updates to the following projects;

Example Configuration:

Name Value Description
DATABASE_TYPE pgsql-oracle-fdw Tells SchemaSpy to use the pgsql-oracle-fdw.properties configuration file.
DATABASE_NAME BC_REGISTRIES The name of the database from the PostgrSQL perspective.
DATABASE_SCHEMA bc_registries The name of the schema from the PostgrSQL perspective.
DATABASE_USER username The username for the related PostgrSQL database.
DATABASE_PASSWORD ***** The password for the related PostgrSQL database.
DATABASE_HOST postgresql-oracle-fdw The host of the PostgrSQL database.

Code of Conduct

Please refer to the Code of Conduct

Contributing

What to add support for additional database types, or add additional features?

For information on how to contribute, refer to Contributing

License

The source code contained in this repository is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

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