Store Factory methods

The following examples are of methods that can be used with the Store Factory:

public static PropertyStore getDefaultPropertyStore () throws Exception;

Returns the default Property Store.

public static PropertyStore getPropertyStore ( String table ) throws Exception;

Returns the Property Store identified by name. Only one instance of a given name is present at one time.

@param name

The Property Store name.

@return

The Property Store object associated with name.

public static String getSystemDatabaseURL ();

Returns the System Store JDBC URL.

public static Connection getConnection () throws Exception;

Returns a connection object to the default database.

public static Connection getConnection ( String database ) throws Exception;

Returns a connection object to the named database with AutoCommit set to TRUE.

@param database

The database name.

public static Connection getConnection ( String database, boolean autoCommit ) throws Exception;

Returns a connection object to the named database.

@param database

The database name.

@param autocommit

The AutoCommit flag.

@return

A connection object to the named database.

public static boolean dropTable ( Connection connection, String table );

Drops a table in the database associated with connection.

@param connection

The connection object obtained by getConnection().

@param table

The table to drop.

public static void verifyTable ( Connection connection, String table, Vector sql ) throws Exception;

Verifies that a table is accessible in the database.

@param connection

The connection object obtained by getConnection(). If null, a connection to the default table is obtained.

@param table

The table name to verify.

@param sql

A vector of SQL statements to create the table if it does not exist.

public static Exception dropTable ( String tableName );

Drops a table in the default database.

@param tableName

The name of the table to drop.

public static byte[] serializeObject ( Object obj ) throws Exception;

Serializes an object to a byte array.

@param obj

The object to serialize.

@return

The byte array containing the serialized object.

public static Object deserializeObject ( byte[] array ) throws Exception;

Deserializes a byte array into a Java object.

@param array

The byte array with the serialized Java object.

@return

The resurrected Java object.

Parent topic: System Store