Connect to Aiven for MySQL® with Java

This example connects your Java application to an Aiven for MySQL® service.

Variables

Replace the following placeholders in the code sample:

Variable	Description
MYSQL_HOST	Host name for the connection, from Aiven Console > the Overview page of your service > the Connection information section
MYSQL_PORT	Port number to use, from Aiven Console > the Overview page of your service > the Connection information section
MYSQL_PASSWORD	Password for avnadmin user
MYSQL_DATABASE	Database to connect

Prerequisites

• JDK 1.8+
• MySQL JDBC Driver, which you can install:

  • Manually from MySQL Community Downloads

  • Using maven:

    mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:get -Dartifact=com.mysql:mysql-connector-j:8.4.8:jar -Ddest=mysql-connector-j-8.4.8.jar

Code

Add the following to MySqlExample.java:

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.util.Locale;

public class MySqlExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ClassNotFoundException {
        String host, port, databaseName, userName, password;
        host = port = databaseName = userName = password = null;
        for (int i = 0; i < args.length - 1; i++) {
            switch (args[i].toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT)) {
                case "-host": host = args[++i]; break;
                case "-username": userName = args[++i]; break;
                case "-password": password = args[++i]; break;
                case "-database": databaseName = args[++i]; break;
                case "-port": port = args[++i]; break;
            }
        }
        // JDBC allows to have nullable username and password
        if (host == null || port == null || databaseName == null) {
            System.out.println("Host, port, database information is required");
            return;
        }
        Class.forName("com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver");
        try (final Connection connection =
                     DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://" + host + ":" + port + "/" + databaseName + "?sslmode=require", userName, password);
             final Statement statement = connection.createStatement();
             final ResultSet resultSet = statement.executeQuery("SELECT version() AS version")) {

            while (resultSet.next()) {
                System.out.println("Version: " + resultSet.getString("version"));
            }
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            System.out.println("Connection failure.");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

This code creates a MySQL client and connects to the database. It fetches version of MySQL and prints it the output.

Run the code after replacement of the placeholders with values for your project:

javac MySqlExample.java && java -cp "mysql-connector-j-8.4.8.jar;." MySqlExample -host MYSQL_HOST -port MYSQL_PORT -database MYSQL_DATABASE -username avnadmin -password MYSQL_PASSWORD

If the script runs successfully, the output will be the values that were inserted into the table:

Version: 8.4.8

Now that your application is connected, you are all set to use Java with Aiven for MySQL.