MySQL connection with JDBC

Question

I'm trying to make a connection to a database on my computer. The password to the database is root, and so is the user. I have connector jar file in my project library, I have 7.0 jre and jdk, the table "clients" in database "Testing1" exists, and has 1 entry with 3 fields,

+--------------------+
| Tables_in_Testing1 |
+--------------------+
| clients            |
| esk                |
| files              |
+--------------------+

clients table:

+----+------------------+-----------------------+
| id | PublicKey        | Email                 |
+----+------------------+-----------------------+
|  1 | PublicKeyNumber1 | FirstClient@email.com |
+----+------------------+-----------------------+

And here's the code:

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.sql.SQLException;

class JDBCTest {
    private static Connection con=null;
    private static Statement st=null;
    private static ResultSet rs=null;

    public static void main(String args[])throws Exception {
        try {
            Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
            con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/Testing1?user=root&password=root");
        }catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("e");
        }
        try{
            st=con.createStatement();
            rs=st.executeQuery("select * from clients");
            while(rs.next()) {
                System.out.println(rs.getString("Key"));
            }
        }
        finally {
            try {
                if (rs != null) {
                        rs.close();
                }
                if (st != null) {
                    st.close();
                }
                if (con != null) {
                con.close();
                }
            }catch (SQLException e) {
                System.out.println(e);
            }
        }
    }
}

All of this returns an error(in Eclipse)

e

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at JDBCTest.main(JDBCTest.java:22)

I assume that it's because there is no connection to the databasae, so con is null... but why?

Answer 1

You replace System.out.println("e") with e.printStackTrace(), you will get the detailed Exception when create connection.
It could be ClassNotFoundException.

And, if it is password not right exception, replace

con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/Testing1?user=root&password=root");

With

con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/Testing1", "root, "root");

Answer 2

I have tried your code and it works for me, just made some changes in url. Also print exception when getting a connection.

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;

public class JDBCTest{
    private static Connection con = null;
    private static Statement  st  = null;
    private static ResultSet  rs  = null;

    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
        try {
            Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
            con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/Testing1?user=root&password=root");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(e);
        }
        try {
            st = con.createStatement();
            rs = st.executeQuery("select * from users");
            while (rs.next()) {
                System.out.println(rs.getString("Key"));
            }
        } finally {
            try {
                if (rs != null) {
                    rs.close();
                }
                if (st != null) {
                    st.close();
                }
                if (con != null) {
                    con.close();
                }
            } catch (SQLException e) {
                System.out.println(e);
            }
        }
    }
}