MariaDB Connector/C++

This is a GA release of the MariaDB Connector/C++.

MariaDB Connector/C++ is released under version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser Public License.

License information can be found in the COPYING file.

To report issues: https://jira.mariadb.org/projects/CONCPP/issues/

Documentation: https://mariadb.com/docs/appdev/connector-cpp/

Basic Use

Connector implements JDBC API with minimal extensions and minimal reductions of methods, that do not make sense in C++

To be able to use API, a program should include its definition in ConnCpp.h header

#include  <mariadb/conncpp.hpp>

To obtain driver instance:

sql::Driver* driver= sql::mariadb::get_driver_instance();

To connect

sql::SQLString url("jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/db");
sql::Properties properties({{"user", "root"}, {"password", "someSecretWord"}});
std::unique_ptr<Connection> conn(driver->connect(url, properties));

Alternatively, connection object can be obtained via DriverManager class. In this case Driver object is not needed, and the connector throws exception, if connection could not be established for whatever reason. Please note, that for conencting via DriverManager only "jdbc:mariadb://" type of URL can be used.

sql::SQLString url("jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/db");
sql::Properties properties({{"user", "roor"}, {"password", "someSecretWord"}});
std::unique_ptr<Connection> conn(DriverManager::getConnection(url, properties));
// or
sql::SQLString url2("jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/db?user=root&password=someSecretWord");
std::unique_ptr<Connection> conn2(DriverManager::getConnection(url));
// or
std::unique_ptr<Connection> conn3(DriverManager::getConnection(url, "root", "someSecretWord"));

For URL syntax and options name you may find here but not all options will have effect at the moment. In particular, not supported are(list may be incomplete):

• keyStore
• keyStorePassword
• trustStore
• trustStorePassword
• keyStoreType
• trustStoreType
• allowPublicKeyRetrieval
• tlsSocketType

Not complete list of supported options - mostly newly added or with new aliases:

Option	Description	Type	Default	Aliases
useServerPrepStmts	Whether to use Server Side Prepared Statements(SSPS) for PreparedStatement by default, and not client side ones(CSPS)	bool	false
connectTimeout	The connect timeout value, in milliseconds, or zero for no timeout.	int	30000
socketTimeout	Specifies the timeout in seconds for reading packets from the server. Value of 0 disables this timeout.	int	0	OPT_READ_TIMEOUT
autoReconnect	Enable or disable automatic reconnect.	bool	false	OPT_RECONNECT
tcpRcvBuf	The buffer size for TCP/IP and socket communication. tcpSndBuf changes the same buffer value, and the biggest value of the two is selected	int	0x4000	tcpSndBuf
tcpSndBuf	The buffer size for TCP/IP and socket communication. tcpRcvBuf changes the same buffer value, and the biggest value of the two is selected	int	0x4000	tcpRcvBuf
localSocket	For connections to localhost, the Unix socket file to use.	string
pipe	On Windows, specify the named pipe name to connect.	string
useTls	Whether to force TLS. This enables TLS with the default system settings.	bool		useSsl,useSSL
tlsKey	File path to a private key file	string		sslKey
keyPassword	Password for the private key	string		MARIADB_OPT_TLS_PASSPHRASE
tlsCert	Path to the X509 certificate file	string		sslCert
tlsCA	A path to a PEM file that should contain one or more X509 certificates for trusted Certificate Authorities (CAs)	string		tlsCa,sslCA
tlsCAPath	A path to a directory that contains one or more PEM files that should each contain one X509 certificate for a trusted Certificate Authority (CA) to use	string		tlsCaPath, sslCAPath
enabledTlsCipherSuites	a list of permitted ciphers or cipher suites to use for TLS	string		enabledSslCipherSuites, enabledSSLCipherSuites
tlsCRL	path to a PEM file that should contain one or more revoked X509 certificates	string		tlsCrl, sslCRL
tlsCRLPath	A path to a directory that contains one or more PEM files that should each contain one revoked X509 certificate. The directory specified by this option needs to be run through the openssl rehash command. This option is only supported if the connector was built with OpenSSL.	string		tlsCrlPath, sslCRLPath
tlsPeerFP	A SHA1 fingerprint of a server certificate for validation during the TLS handshake.	string		tlsPeerFp, MARIADB_OPT_SSL_FP
tlsPeerFPList	A file containing one or more SHA1 fingerprints of server certificates for validation during the TLS handshake.	string		tlsPeerFpList, MARIADB_OPT_SSL_FP_LIST
serverRsaPublicKeyFile	The name of the file which contains the RSA public key of the database server. The format of this file must be in PEM format. This option is used by the caching_sha2_password client authentication plugin.	string		rsaKey
useCompression	Compresses the exchange with the database	bool	false	CLIENT_COMPRESS
jdbcCompliantTruncation	Truncation error will be thrown as error, and not as warning	bool	true
useCharacterEncoding	Character set used for text encoding.	string		OPT_SET_CHARSET_NAME,useCharset
credentialType	Default authentication client-side plugin to use.	string		defaultAuth

Properties is map of strings, and is another way to pass optional parameters.

In addition to Connector/J URL style and JDBC connect method, Connector/C++ supports following connect methods:

sql::SQLString user("root");
sql::SQLString pwd("root");
std::unique_ptr<sql::Connection> conn(driver->connect("tcp://localhost:3306/test", user, pwd));

and

sql::Properties properties;
properties["hostName"]= "127.0.0.1";
properties["userName"]= "root";
properties["password"]= "root";
std::unique_ptr<sql::Connection> conn(driver->connect(properties));

Host in former case can be defined as (tcp|unix|pipe)://<host>[:port][/] Properties in the latter case are the same, as in the first variant of the connect method, plus additionally supported

• hostName
• pipe
• socket
• schema
• userName(alias for user)
• password

std::string variables can be passed, where parameters are expected to be sql::SQLString

For further use one may refer to JDBC specs.

Except Driver object, normally this is application's responsibility to delete objects returned by the connector.