Creating DataSource in a Talend Runtime Container using OPS4J

About this task

It is easy to create a data source using OPS4J which does not require other tools as an editor.

Procedure

Start the karaf client.
1. Change to the Talend Runtime installation directory.
```
cd <RuntimeContainerPath>
```
2. Run the client.
  - bin\client.bat (Windows)
  - bin\client (Linux)

Add a feature repository and install required features.

feature:repo-add pax-jdbc 1.3.0 
feature:install transaction jndi pax-jdbc-postgresql pax-jdbc-pool-dbcp2 pax-jdbc-config

Check if the desired JDBC driver is installed and ready to use.

service:list DataSourceFactory

The information about the JDBC driver is returned, as shown below.

[org.osgi.service.jdbc.DataSourceFactory]
-----------------------------------------
 service.id = 386
 osgi.jdbc.driver.version = 42.2.8
 service.bundleid = 236
 service.scope = singleton
 osgi.jdbc.driver.name = PostgreSQL JDBC Driver
 osgi.jdbc.driver.class = org.postgresql.Driver
Provided by :
 PostgreSQL JDBC Driver JDBC42 (236)

Configure a new datasource based on the configuration files.
Create a file in the <RuntimeContainerPath>\etc folder with the name prefix org.ops4j.datasource- and the extension .cfg (between minus and extension add your name).

The jdbc-config feature scans the etc files for such a file and react to every change to it. You can now create additional datasources just by creating new files here.
A sample configuration file org.ops4j.datasource-etlcontrol.cfg is shown below:
```
osgi.jdbc.driver.name=PostgreSQL JDBC Driver
pool=dbcp2
serverName=ubuntuserver.local
databaseName=etlcontrol
portNumber=5432
user=username
password=password
dataSourceName=jdbc/etlcontrol-ds
factory.defaultAutoCommit=true
factory.validationQuery=select current_date
pool.timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis=60000
pool.minEvictableIdleTimeMillis=20000
pool.maxTotal=300
pool.maxIdle=300
```

Check if the datasource is available.

service:list DataSource

The following result is returned:

[javax.sql.DataSource]
----------------------
 factory.defaultAutoCommit = true
 pax.jdbc.managed = true
 service.id = 400
 pool.minEvictableIdleTimeMillis = 20000
 service.bundleid = 228
 service.scope = singleton
 dataSourceName = jdbc/etlcontrol-ds
 user = username
 pool.timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis = 60000
 osgi.jdbc.driver.name = PostgreSQL JDBC Driver
 pool.maxIdle = 300
 portNumber = 5432
 pool.maxTotal = 300
 password = password
 databaseName = etlcontrol
 osgi.jndi.service.name = jdbc/etlcontrol-ds
 serverName = ubuntuserver.local
 factory.validationQuery = select current_date
 service.factoryPid = org.ops4j.datasource
 felix.fileinstall.filename = file:/C:/builds/Talend-ESB-V7.4.1-SNAPSHOT/container/etc/org.ops4j.datasource-etlcontrol.cfg
 service.pid = org.ops4j.datasource.6c3f8581-958d-4ef6-9c7c-28700126ed8b
Provided by :
 OPS4J Pax JDBC Config (228)

Check log output.

log:display

You can see the following log information:

12:47:39.628 INFO [fileinstall-C:\builds\Talend-ESB-V7.3.1-SNAPSHOT\container\etc] Creating configuration from org.ops4j.datasource-etlcontrol.cfg
12:47:39.633 INFO [CM Configuration Updater (Update: pid=org.ops4j.datasource.6c3f8581-958d-4ef6-9c7c-28700126ed8b)] Obtained service dependency: (&(objectClass=org.ops4j.pax.jdbc.pool.common.PooledDataSourceFactory)(pool=dbcp2)(xa=false))
12:47:39.635 INFO [CM Configuration Updater (Update: pid=org.ops4j.datasource.6c3f8581-958d-4ef6-9c7c-28700126ed8b)] Obtained service dependency: (&(objectClass=org.osgi.service.jdbc.DataSourceFactory)(osgi.jdbc.driver.name=PostgreSQL JDBC Driver))
12:47:39.635 INFO [CM Configuration Updater (Update: pid=org.ops4j.datasource.6c3f8581-958d-4ef6-9c7c-28700126ed8b)] Found DataSourceFactory. Creating DataSource jdbc/etlcontrol-ds

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