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goracle
goracle is a package which is a database/sql/driver.Driver for connecting to Oracle DB, using Anthony Tuininga's excellent OCI wrapper, ODPI-C.
At least Go 1.11 is required!
Although an Oracle client is NOT required for compiling, it is at run time. One can download it from https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html
Connect
In sql.Open("goracle", connString)
, you can provide the classic "user/passw@service_name"
as connString, or an URL like "oracle://user:passw@service_name".
You can provide all possible options with ConnectionParams
.
Watch out the ConnectionParams.String()
does redact the password
(for security, to avoid logging it - see https://github.com/go-goracle/goracle/issues/79).
So use ConnectionParams.StringWithPassword()
.
More advanced configurations can be set with a connection string such as:
user/pass@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=hostname)(PORT=port)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=sn)))
A configuration like this is how you would add functionality such as load balancing across mutliple servers. The portion
described in parenthesis above can also be set in the SID
field of ConnectionParams
.
For other possible connection strings, see https://oracle.github.io/node-oracledb/doc/api.html#connectionstrings and https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=dblatest&id=GUID-B0437826-43C1-49EC-A94D-B650B6A4A6EE .
TL;DR; the short form is username@[//]host[:port][/service_name][:server][/instance_name]
, the long form is
(DESCRIPTION= (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=host)(PORT=port)) (CONNECT_DATA= (SERVICE_NAME=service_name) (SERVER=server) (INSTANCE_NAME=instance_name)))
.
To use heterogeneous pools, set heterogeneousPool=1
and provide the username/password through
goracle.ContextWithUserPassw
.
Rationale
With Go 1.9, driver-specific things are not needed, everything (I need) can be
achieved with the standard database/sql library. Even calling stored procedures
with OUT parameters, or sending/retrieving PL/SQL array types - just give a
goracle.PlSQLArrays
Option within the parameters of Exec
!
The array size of the returned PL/SQL arrays can be set with goracle.ArraySize(2000)
- the default is 1024.
Connections are pooled by default (except AS SYSOPER
or AS SYSDBA
).
Speed
Correctness and simplicity is more important than speed, but the underlying ODPI-C library helps a lot with the lower levels, so the performance is not bad.
Queries are prefetched (256 rows by default, can be changed by adding a
goracle.FetchRowCount(1000)
argument to the call of Query),
but you can speed up INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements
by providing all the subsequent parameters at once, by putting each param's subsequent
elements in a separate slice:
Instead of
db.Exec("INSERT INTO table (a, b) VALUES (:1, :2)", 1, "a")
db.Exec("INSERT INTO table (a, b) VALUES (:1, :2)", 2, "b")
do
db.Exec("INSERT INTO table (a, b) VALUES (:1, :2)", []int{1, 2}, []string{"a", "b"})
Logging
Goracle uses github.com/go-kit/kit/log
's concept of a Log
function.
Either set goracle.Log
to a logging function globally,
or (better) set the logger in the Context of ExecContext or QueryContext:
db.QueryContext(goracle.ContextWithLog(ctx, logger.Log), qry)
Tracing
To set ClientIdentifier, ClientInfo, Module, Action and DbOp on the session, to be seen in the Database by the Admin, set goracle.TraceTag on the Context:
db.QueryContext(goracle.ContextWithTraceTag(goracle.TraceTag{
Module: "processing",
Action: "first",
}), qry)
Extras
To use the goracle-specific functions, you'll need a *goracle.conn
.
That's what goracle.DriverConn
is for!
See [z_qrcn_test.go](./z_qrcn_test.go) for using that to reach
NewSubscription.
Calling stored procedures
Use ExecContext
and mark each OUT parameter with sql.Out
.
Using cursors returned by stored procedures
Use ExecContext
and an interface{}
or a database/sql/driver.Rows
as the sql.Out
destination,
then either use the driver.Rows
interface,
or transform it into a regular *sql.Rows
with goracle.WrapRows
,
or (since Go 1.12) just Scan into *sql.Rows
.
For examples, see Anthony Tuininga's presentation about Go (page 39)!
Caveats
sql.NullString
sql.NullString
is not supported: Oracle DB does not differentiate between
an empty string ("") and a NULL, so an
sql.NullString{String:"", Valid:true} == sql.NullString{String:"", Valid:false}
and this would be more confusing than not supporting sql.NullString
at all.
Just use plain old string
!
NUMBER
NUMBER
s are transferred as goracle.Number
(which is a string
) to Go under the hood.
This ensures that we don't lose any precision (Oracle's NUMBER has 38 decimal digits),
and sql.Scan
will hide this and Scan
into your int64
, float64
or string
, as you wish.
For PLS_INTEGER
and BINARY_INTEGER
(PL/SQL data types) you can use int32
.
CLOB, BLOB
From 2.9.0, LOBs are returned as string/[]byte by default (before it needed the ClobAsString()
option).
Now it's reversed, and the default is string, to get a Lob reader, give the LobAsReader()
option.
If you return Lob as a reader, watch out with sql.QueryRow
, sql.QueryRowContext
!
They close the statement right after you Scan
from the returned *Row
, the returned Lob
will be invalid, producing
getSize: ORA-00000: DPI-1002: invalid dpiLob handle
.
So, use a separate Stmt
or sql.QueryContext
.
For writing a LOB, the LOB locator returned from the database is valid only till the Stmt
is valid!
So Prepare
the statement for the retrieval, then Exec
, and only Close
the stmt iff you've finished with your LOB!
For example, see [z_lob_test.go](./z_lob_test.go), TestLOBAppend
.
TIMESTAMP
As I couldn't make TIMESTAMP arrays work, all time.Time
is bind as DATE
, so fractional seconds
are lost.
A workaround is converting to string:
time.Now().Format("2-Jan-06 3:04:05.000000 PM")
See #121.
Install
Just
go get gopkg.in/goracle.v2
Or if you prefer dep
dep ensure -add gopkg.in/goracle.v2
and you're ready to go!
Note that Windows may need some newer gcc (mingw-w64 with gcc 7.2.0).
Contribute
Just as with other Go projects, you don't want to change the import paths, but you can hack on the library in place, just set up different remotes:
cd $GOPATH.src/gopkg.in/goracle.v2
git remote add upstream https://github.com/go-goracle/goracle.git
git fetch upstream
git checkout -b master upstream/master
git checkout -f master
git pull upstream master
git remote add fork [email protected]:mygithubacc/goracle
git checkout -b newfeature upstream/master
Change, experiment as you wish, then
git commit -m 'my great changes' *.go
git push fork newfeature
and you're ready to send a GitHub Pull Request from github.com/mygithubacc/goracle
, newfeature
branch.
pre-commit
Add this to .git/hooks/pre-commit (after go get github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint
)
#!/bin/sh
set -e
output="$(gofmt -l "$@")"
if [ -n "$output" ]; then
echo >&2 "Go files must be formatted with gofmt. Please run:"
for f in $output; do
echo >&2 " gofmt -w $PWD/$f"
done
exit 1
fi
golangci-lint run
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