ODBC Driver for Trello

Build 22.0.8462

Linux DSN Configuration

This section describes how to set up ODBC connectivity and configure DSNs on several Linux distributions: Debian-based systems, like Ubuntu, and Red Hat Linux platforms, like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and Fedora.

Minimum Linux Versions

Here are the minimum supported versions for Red Hat-based and Debian-based systems:

OSMin. Version
Ubuntu11.04
Debian7
RHEL6.9
CentOS6.9
Fedora13
SUSE12.1

Installing the Driver Dependencies

Run the following commands as root or with sudo to install the necessary dependencies:

  • Debian/Ubuntu:
    apt-get install libc6 libstdc++6 zlib1g libgcc1
  • RHEL/CentOS/Fedora:
    yum install glibc libstdc++ zlib libgcc

Here are the corresponding libraries required by the driver:

Debian/Ubuntu PackageRHEL/CentOS/Fedora PackageFile
libc6glibclinux-vdso.1
libc6glibclibm.so.6
libc6glibclibrt.so.1
libc6glibclibdl.so.2
libc6glibclibpthread.so.0
libc6glibclibc.so.6
libc6glibcld-linux-x86-64.so.2
libstdc++6libstdc++libstdc++.so.6
zlib1gzliblibz.so.1
libgcc1libgcclibgcc_s.so.1

Installing the Driver

You can use standard package management systems to install the driver.

On Debian-based systems, like Ubuntu, run the following command with root or sudo:

dpkg -i /path/to/driver/setup/TrelloODBCDriverforUnix.deb 

On systems that support the RPM package format, run the following command with root or sudo:

rpm -ivh /path/to/driver/TrelloODBCDriverforUnix.rpm 

Licensing the Driver

Run the following commands to license the driver. To activate a trial, omit the <key> input.

cd /opt/cdata/cdata-odbc-driver-for-trello/bin/
sudo ./install-license.sh <key>

Connecting through the Driver Manager

The driver manager loads the driver and passes function calls from the application to the driver. You need to register the driver with the driver manager and you define DSNs in the driver manager's configuration files.

The driver installation registers the driver with the unixODBC driver manager and creates a system DSN. The unixODBC driver manager can be used from Python and from many other applications. Your application may embed another driver manager.

Creating the DSN

See Using unixODBC to install unixODBC and configure DSNs. See Using the DataDirect Driver Manager to create a DSN to connect to OBIEE, Informatica, and SAS.

Trello uses token-based authentication to grant third-party applications access to their API. When a user has granted an application access to their data, the application is given a token that can be used to make requests to Trello's API. Trello's API can be accessed in 2 different ways. The first is using Trello's own Authorization Route, and the second is using OAuth1.0.

Trello Authorization Route

At the moment of registration, Trello assigns an API key and Token to the account.

Note: Set AuthScheme to Token to activate this authentication method.

At the moment of registration, Trello assigns an API key and Token to the account. We can retrieve this API key after logging in to Trello and visiting https://trello.com/app-key. After obtaining your API key, you can use it to obtain a Token by visiting https://trello.com/1/authorize?expiration=never&name=MyPersonalToken&scope=read,write,account&response_type=token&key={Key} and replacing {key} with the obtained API key. After visiting the page, you can authorize the application to use your account by clicking the allow button. You'll be redirected to a page with your token. To make requests to Trello's API you will need both API key and Token.

Note: You can change the expiration time of the token by changing expiration= with one of the following values (1hour, 1day, 30days, never).

Set:

  • APIKey: The key found at https://trello.com/app-key
  • Token: The token obtained

OAuth

Note: Set AuthScheme to OAuth to activate this authentication method.

Similar to using Authorization, OAuth creates an Application Id and Secret when you create your account. See Using OAuth Authentication for information on how to to connect.

Refreshing OAuth Values

The driver can refresh the temporary OAuth access tokens obtained during the browser-based OAuth authentication exchange. By default, the driver saves the encrypted tokens in the odbc.ini file corresponding to the DSN. Access to this odbc.ini file can be restricted in the case of System DSNs.

To enable the automatic token exchange, you can give the driver write access to the system odbc.ini.

Installing Dependencies for OAuth Authentication

The OAuth authentication standard requires the authenticating user to interact with Trello, using a web-browser. If the first OAuth interaction is to be done on the same machine the driver is installed on, for example, a desktop application, the driver needs access to the xdg-open program, which opens the default browser.

To satisfy this dependency, install the corresponding package with your package manager:

Debian/Ubuntu PackageRHEL/CentOS/Fedora PackageFile
xdg-utilsxdg-utilsxdg-open

Set the Driver Encoding

The ODBC drivers need to specify which encoding to use with the ODBC Driver Manager. By default, the CData ODBC Drivers for Unix are configured to use UTF-16 which is compatible with unixODBC, but other Driver Managers may require alternative encoding.

Alternatively, if you are using the ODBC driver from an application that uses the ANSI ODBC API it may be necessary to set the ANSI code page. For example, to import Japanese characters in an ANSI application, you can specify the code page in the config file '/opt/cdata/cdata-odbc-driver-for-trello/lib/cdata.odbc.trello.ini':

[Driver]
AnsiCodePage = 932

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