Creating a JDBC Data Source

You can create a JDBC data source to connect from your Java application. Creating a JDBC data source based on the CData JDBC Driver for Sage Business Cloud Accounting consists of three basic steps:

• Add the driver JAR file to the classpath. The JAR file is located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory. Note that the .lic file must be located in the same folder as the JAR file.
• Provide the driver class. For example:
  

  cdata.jdbc.sagebcaccounting.SageBCAccountingDriver

• Provide the JDBC URL. For example:
  

  jdbc:sagebcaccounting:InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;
  
  or
  
  jdbc:cdata:sagebcaccounting:InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;

  The second format above can be used whenever there is a conflict in your application between drivers using the same URL format to ensure you are using the CData driver. The URL must start with either "jdbc:sagebcaccounting:" or "jdbc:cdata:sagebcaccounting:" and can include any of the connection properties in name-value pairs separated with semicolons.

Authenticating to Sage Business Cloud Accounting

Sage Business Cloud Accounting uses the OAuth standard to authenticate users.

OAuth

See Using OAuth Authentication for an authentication guide. You can connect without setting any connection properties for your user credentials. Set InitiateOAuth to GETANDREFRESH to avoid repeating the OAuth exchange and manually setting the OAuthAccessToken.

1. Extracts the access token from the callback URL and authenticates requests.
2. Obtains a new access token when the old one expires.
3. Saves OAuth values in OAuthSettingsLocation to be persisted across connections.

See Using OAuth Authentication for other OAuth authentication flows.