[jboss-as7-dev] "driver-name" attribute while creating the JDBC driver

[Jason Greene]

That is just terribly wrong :(

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 5, 2012, at 1:06 AM, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at redhat.com> wrote:

> Bumping this, since many developers were on vacation when this was sent 
> soon after 7.1.0 release.
> 
> -Jaikiran
> On Friday 17 February 2012 03:53 PM, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>> I was trying out creation of a JDBC driver through the management
>> operation. Initially I used this operation:
>> 
>> [standalone at localhost:9999 /]
>> /subsystem=datasources/jdbc-driver=mysql-5-driver:add(driver-module-name=mysql,
>> driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver)
>> 
>> Note that it _doesn't_ specify the "driver-name" attribute. However, it
>> failed with:
>> 
>> {
>>      "outcome" =>  "failed",
>>      "failure-description" =>  "JBAS014749: Operation handler failed: No
>> child 'driver-name' exists",
>>      "rolled-back" =>  true
>> }
>> 
>> (the error message isn't clear by the way, but that's a different matter).
>> 
>> I then had to change the operation to explicitly specify the driver-name
>> attribute:
>> 
>> [standalone at localhost:9999 /]
>> /subsystem=datasources/jdbc-driver=mysql-5-driver:add(driver-name=mysql-5-driver,
>> driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver, driver-module-name=mysql)
>> 
>> That worked fine.
>> 
>> But why is this operation unlike other "add" operations which use the
>> value before the ":" as the name of the new resource? By the way, I even
>> tried this command:
>> 
>> [standalone at localhost:9999 /]
>> /subsystem=datasources/jdbc-driver=foo:add(driver-name=bar,
>> driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver, driver-module-name=mysql)
>> 
>> Note that I use "foo" as the resource name for the add operation and
>> "bar" as the driver-name attribute value. This creates a driver named
>> "bar" in the standalone.xml:
>> 
>> <driver name="bar" module="mysql">
>> <driver-class>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driver-class>
>> </driver>
>> 
>> and there's no reference to "foo" anywhere. So what's the significance
>> of using it in the operation?
>> 
>> -Jaikiran
>> 
>> 
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