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/**
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 *  '$RCSfile$'
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 *    Purpose: An abstract class that encapsulates access to any RDBMS.
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 *             This allows to swap easily between databases without any
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 *             modification to the application.
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 *  Copyright: 2000 Regents of the University of California and the
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 *             National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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 *    Authors: Jivka Bojilova
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 *    Release: @release@
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 *
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 *   '$Author: bojilova $'
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 *     '$Date: 2001-06-08 12:10:36 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2001) $'
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 * '$Revision: 778 $'
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 *
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 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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 * (at your option) any later version.
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 *
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 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 * GNU General Public License for more details.
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 *
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 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
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 */
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package edu.ucsb.nceas.dbadapter;
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import java.sql.*;
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import edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.MetaCatUtil;
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/**
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 * Java offers uniform database access through the use of JDBC.
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 * But many databases still use different SQL implementations and 
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 * conventions. Thus this class offers extended programming interface
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 * that all subclasses should implement to gain access to different
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 * databases.
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 * To add a new database adapter class you must create a new class 
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 * <dbname>Adapter that extends edu.ucsb.nceas.dbadapter.AbstarctDatabase
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 * (where dbname is the name of the database or database driver you wish
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 * to add to your application). AbstarctDatabase is an abstract class,
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 * thus the subclasses need to implement the abstract methods.
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 */
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public abstract class AbstractDatabase {
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  /**
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   * Unique ID generator
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   * @param conn db connection in which the unique id was generated
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   * @param tableName the table which unique id was generate
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   * @exception SQLException <br/> any SQLException that can be thrown 
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   *            during the db operation
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   * @return return the generated unique id as a long type
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   */
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  public abstract long getUniqueID(Connection conn, String tableName) 
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                                                  throws SQLException;
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  /**
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   * The function name that gets the current date and time
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   * from the database server
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   * @return return the current date and time function name
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  public abstract String getDateTimeFunction();
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  /**
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   * The function name that is used to return non-NULL value
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  public abstract String getIsNULLFunction();
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  /**
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   * The character that the specific database implementation uses to 
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   * indicate string literals in SQL. This will usually be a single
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   * qoute (').
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  public abstract String getStringDelimiter();
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   * Instantiate a class using the name of the class at runtime
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  static public Object createObject(String className) throws Exception {
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    try {
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      Class classDefinition = Class.forName(className);
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      object = classDefinition.newInstance();
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    } catch (InstantiationException e) {
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      throw e;
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    } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
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      throw e;
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    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
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      throw e;
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    return object;
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  /**
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   * the main routine used to test the dbadapter utility.
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  static public void main(String[] args) {
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    // Determine our db adapter class and
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    // create an instance of that class
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    try {
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      String dbAdapter = MetaCatUtil.getOption("dbAdapter");
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      AbstractDatabase dbAdapterObj = (AbstractDatabase)createObject(dbAdapter);
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      String date = dbAdapterObj.getDateTimeFunction();
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      System.out.println(e);
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  }
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}
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