Package org.pentaho.reporting.engine.classic.core.modules.misc.datafactory.sql

Interface ConnectionProvider

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

DriverConnectionProvider, JndiConnectionProvider, StaticConnectionProvider

public interface ConnectionProvider
extends Serializable

Creation-Date: Dec 12, 2006, 1:53:44 PM

Author:

Thomas Morgner

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Connection	createConnection(String user, String password)	Although named getConnection() this method should always return a new connection when being queried or should wrap the connection in a way so that calls to "close()" on that connection do not prevent subsequent calls to this method to fail.
Object	getConnectionHash()

Method Detail

createConnection

Connection createConnection(String user,
                            String password)
                     throws SQLException

Although named getConnection() this method should always return a new connection when being queried or should wrap the connection in a way so that calls to "close()" on that connection do not prevent subsequent calls to this method to fail.

Parameters:

user - the user name.

password - the password.

Returns:

the connection.

Throws:

SQLException - if the connection has errors.

getConnectionHash

Object getConnectionHash()