PostgresConnection

Implements: IReferenceable, IConfigurable, IOpenable

Description

The PostgresConnection class allows you to create connections to PostgreSQL databases using the official driver.

Important points

• By defining a connection and sharing it through multiple persistence components you can reduce the number of used database connections.

Configuration parameters

connection(s):

• discovery_key: (optional) key to retrieve the connection from IDiscovery
• host: host name or IP address
• port: port number (default: 27017)
• uri: resource URI or connection string with all parameters in it

credential(s):

• store_key: (optional) key to retrieve the credentials from ICredentialStore
• username: username
• password: user’s password

options:

• connect_timeout: (optional) number of milliseconds to wait before timing out when connecting a new client (default: 0)
• idle_timeout: (optional) number of milliseconds a client must sit idle in the pool and not be checked out (default: 10000)
• max_pool_size: (optional) maximum number of clients the pool can contain (default: 10)

References

• *:logger:*:*:1.0 - (optional) ILogger components to pass log messages
• *:discovery:*:*:1.0 - (optional) IDiscovery services
• *:credential-store:*:*:1.0 (optional) credential stores used to resolve credentials

Fields

Instance methods

close

Closes the component and frees used resources.

public close(correlationId: string): Promise<void>

• correlationId: string - (optional) transaction id used to trace execution through the call chain.

configure

Configures the component by passing its configuration parameters.

public configure(config: ConfigParams): void

• config: ConfigParams - configuration parameters to be set.

getConnection

Gets a connection to a Postgres database.

public getConnection(): any

• returns: any - connection to a Postgres database.

getDatabaseName

Gets the database name.

public getDatabaseName(): string

• returns: string - database name