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cgo-ase

🛑 Repository Sunset Notice (2025-04-14)

Dear Contributers and Users,

This is an announcement that we are planning to officially sunset this repository. This decision was made after careful consideration of the project's current trajectory, community engagement, and resource allocation.

The sunset will happen after a grace period of four weeks following this announcement. Development and support will cease, and the project will be archived.

Thank You: We are grateful for your contributions and support.

For questions or concerns, please reach out.

Description

cgo-ase is a driver for the database/sql package of Go (golang) to provide access to SAP ASE instances. It is delivered as Go module.

SAP ASE is the shorthand for SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, a relational model database server originally known as Sybase SQL Server.

cgo enables Go to call C code and to link against shared objects. A pure go implementation can be found here.

Requirements

The cgo driver requires the shared objects from either the ASE itself or Client-Library to compile.

The required shared objects from ASE can be found in the installation path of the ASE under OCS-16_0/lib, where 16_0 is the version of your ASE installation.

After installing the Client-Library SDK the shared objects can be found in the folder lib at the chosen installation path.

The headers are provided in the includes folder.

Aside from the shared object the cgo driver has no special requirements other than Go standard library and the third party modules listed in go.mod, e.g. github.com/SAP/go-dblib.

Download and Installation

The packages in this repo can be go get and imported as usual, e.g.:

go get github.com/SAP/cgo-ase

For specifics on how to use database/sql please see the documentation.

The command-line application cgoase can be go installed:

$ go install github.com/SAP/cgo-ase/cmd/cgoase@latest
go: downloading github.com/SAP/cgo-ase v0.0.0-20210506101112-3f277f8e0603
$ cgoase -h
Usage of cgoase:
      --appname string        Application Name to transmit to ASE
      --database string       Database
  -f, --f string              Read SQL commands from file
      --host string           Hostname to connect to
      --key string            Key of userstore data to use for login
      --log-client-msgs       Log client messages
      --log-server-msgs       Log server messages
      --maxColLength int      Maximum number of characters to print for column (default 50)
      --password string       Password
      --port string           Port (Example: '443' or 'tls') to connect to
      --tls-hostname string   Expected server TLS hostname to pass to C driver
      --username string       Username
2021/05/06 11:00:22 cgoase failed: pflag: help requested

Usage

Example code:

package main

import (
    "database/sql"
    _ "github.com/SAP/cgo-ase"
)

func main() {
    db, err := sql.Open("ase", "ase://user:pass@host:port/")
    if err != nil {
        log.Printf("Failed to open database: %v", err)
        return
    }
    defer db.Close()

    if err := db.Ping(); err != nil {
        log.Printf("Failed to ping database: %v", err)
        return
    }
}

/path/to/OCS is the path to your Client-Library SDK installation. /lib is the folder inside of the SDK installation containing the shared objects required for the cgo driver.

Compilation

CGO_LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/OCS/lib" go build -o cgoase ./cmd/cgoase/

Execution

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/path/to/OCS/lib:/path/to/OCS/lib3p:/path/to/OCS/lib3p64:" ./cgoase

While /path/to/OCS/lib contains the libraries of the Open Client, /path/to/OCS/lib3p and /path/to/OCS/lib3p64 contain the libraries needed to use ASE user store keys.

Examples

More examples can be found in the folder examples.

Integration tests

Integration tests are available and can be run using go test --tags=integration and go test ./examples/... --tags=integration.

These require the following environment variables to be set:

• ASE_USERSTOREKEY
• ASE_HOST
• ASE_PORT
• ASE_USER
• ASE_PASS

The integration tests will create new databases for each connection type to run tests against. After the tests are finished the created databases will be removed.

Configuration

The configuration is handled through either a data source name (DSN) in one of two forms or through a configuration struct passed to a connector.

All of these support additional properties which can tweak the connection, configuration options in Client-Library or the drivers themselves.

Data Source Names

URI DSN

The URI DSN is a common URI like ase://user:pass@host:port/?prop1=val1&prop2=val2.

DSNs in this form are parsed using url.Parse.

Simple DSN

The simple DSN is a key/value string: username=user password=pass host=hostname port=4901

Values with spaces must be quoted using single or double quotes.

Each member of dblib.dsn.DsnInfo can be set using any of their possible json tags. E.g. .Host will receive the values from the keys host and hostname.

Additional properties are set as key/value pairs as well: ... prop1=val1 prop2=val2. If the parser doesn't recognize a string as a json tag it assumes that the key/value pair is a property and its value.

Similar to the URI DSN those property/value pairs are purely additive. Any property that only recognizes a single argument (e.g. a boolean) will only honour the last given value for a property.

Connector

As an alternative to the string DSN ase.NewConnector accept a dsn.DsnInfo directly and return a driver.Connector, which can be passed to sql.OpenDB:

package main

import (
    "database/sql"

    "github.com/SAP/cgo-ase"
)

func main() {
    info := ase.NewInfo()
    info.Host = "hostname"
    info.Port = "4901"
    info.Username = "user"
    info.Password = "pass"

    connector, err := ase.NewConnector(info)
    if err != nil {
        log.Printf("Failed to create connector: %v", err)
        return
    }

    db, err := sql.OpenDB(connector)
    if err != nil {
        log.Printf("Failed to open database: %v", err)
        return
    }
    defer db.Close()

    if err := db.Ping(); err != nil {
        log.Printf("Failed to ping ASE: %v", err)
    }
}

Properties

Recognized values: string

When set overrides Client-Libraries default application name sent to the ASE server.

Recognized values: string

When set uses the ASE userstore instead of username/password to authenticate with ASE.

Recognized values: string

Expected server TLS hostname to pass to Client-Library for validation.

Recognized values: true or false

When set to true all client messages will be printed to stderr.

Please note that this is a debug property - for logging you should register your own message handler with the GlobalClientMessageBroker.

When unset the callback will not bet set.

Recognized values: true or false

When set to true all server messages will be printed to stderr.

Please note that this is a debug property - for logging you should register your own message handler with the GlobalServerMessageBroker.

When unset the callback will not bet set.

Limitations

Prepared statements

Regarding the limitations of prepared statements/dynamic SQL please see the Client-Library documentation.

Unsupported ASE data types

Currently the following data types are not supported:

• Timestamp
• Univarchar

Null types

Due to the limitations of the Client-Library it is not possible to support null types.

Additionally columns of the following data types must be nullable:

• Image
• Binary

Known Issues

The list of known issues is available here.

How to obtain support

Feel free to open issues for feature requests, bugs or general feedback here.

Contributing

Any help to improve this package is highly appreciated.

For details on how to contribute please see the contributing file.

License

Copyright (c) 2019-2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. This file is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 except as noted otherwise in the LICENSE file.