AgensGraph JDBC Driver

Introduction

AgensGraph JDBC Driver is based on PostgreSQL JDBC Driver and offers additional features to handle graph data. Thus, when users develop Java applications, there is little difference between using the API of AgensGraph JDBC Driver and PostgreSQL JDBC Driver. The only difference is that AgensGraph uses Cypher query language instead of SQL and utilizes graph data as data types such as Vertex, Edge and Path.

Usage of Java Driver

This section shows how to use AgensGraph JDBC Driver through examples.

Get the Driver

You can download the precompiled driver(jar) from bitnine.net/downloads or use maven as follows.

Gradle

implementation group: 'net.bitnine', name: 'agensgraph-jdbc', version: '1.4.3'

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>net.bitnine</groupId>
  <artifactId>agensgraph-jdbc</artifactId>
  <version>1.4.3</version>
</dependency>

You may search the latest version on The Central Repository with GroupId and ArtifactId

Connection

It requires two strings to connect AgensGraph using the driver like other JDBC drivers do. These are the name of the driver class and a connection string.

• The name of the driver class is net.bitnine.agensgraph.Driver.
• A connection string consists of sub-protocol, server, port, and database.
  • jdbc:agensgraph:// is a sub-protocal to use AgensGraph JDBC driver.
  • The format of a connection string is jdbc:agensgraph://server:port/database.

The following is an example to connect AgensGraph.

import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.Connection;

public class AgensGraphTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Class.forName("net.bitnine.agensgraph.Driver");
    String connectionString = "jdbc:agensgraph://127.0.0.1:5432/agens";
	String username = "test";
	String password = "test";
    Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionString, username, password);
    ...
  }
}

Retrieving Data

The following is an example of retrieving graph data using MATCH clause. The result of the query is vertex type in AgensGraph. You can get the result as a Vertex object and get properties in it.

...
import net.bitnine.agensgraph.graph.Vertex;
...
public class AgensGraphTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    ...
    Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
    ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(
      "MATCH (:person {name: 'John'})-[:knows]-(friend:person) RETURN friend");
    while (rs.next()) {
      Vertex friend = (Vertex) rs.getObject(1);
      System.out.println(friend.getString("name"));
      System.out.println(friend.getInt("age"));
    }
  }
}

Creating Data

The following example shows how to create a vertex with person label. You can build a Jsonb object to use it as the property map of the created vertex.

...
import net.bitnine.agensgraph.util.Jsonb;
import net.bitnine.agensgraph.util.JsonbUtil;

import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
...
public class AgensGraphTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    ...
    PreparedStatement pstmt = conn.prepareStatement("CREATE (:person ?)");
	Jsonb j = JsonbUtil.createObjectBuilder()
      .add("name", "John")
      .add("from", "USA")
      .add("age", 17)
      .build();
    pstmt.setObject(1, j);
    pstmt.execute();
  }
}

The following is the actual query to be executed.

CREATE (:person {name: 'John', from: 'USA', age: 17})

Using Named Parameter

...
import net.bitnine.agensgraph.jdbc.AgConnection;
import net.bitnine.agensgraph.jdbc.AgPreparedStatement;
...
public class AgensGraphTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    ...
    aconn = conn.unwrap(AgConnection.class);
    AgPreparedStatement apstmt = aconn.prepareNamedParameterStatement("CREATE ($data)");
	Jsonb j = JsonbUtil.createObjectBuilder()
      .add("id", 7)
      .add("enabled", true)
      .add("day", JsonbUtil.createArray("Sat", "Sun"))
      .build();
    apstmt.setObject("data", j);
    apstmt.execute();
  }
}

Graph Object Classes

This section is a brief explanation of Java class to support graph data.

Class	Description
GraphId	It is a java class corresponding to graphid type in AgensGraph.
Vertex	It is a java class corresponding to vertex type in AgensGraph. It supports accessing methods for the label and properties.
Edge	It is a java class corresponding to edge type in AgensGraph. It supports accessing methods for the label and properties.
Path	It is a java class corresponding to graphpath type in AgensGraph. It supports methods for the length of the path, and accessing for vertexes and edges in the path.
Jsonb	It is a java class corresponding to jsonb type in AgensGraph. Vertex and Edge use Jsonb to store their properties. It offers accessing methods for JSON scalar, array, and object type.
JsonbUtil	It offers various methods to create Jsonb object as shown in the above CREATE example.