I once wrote about authenticating users using database tables and JWTs. While functional, custom solutions like that put the onus on you to protect the user’s credentials and they’re a far cry from a full-blown platform for security and identity. Oracle’s solution for such a platform is called Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS). In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to authenticate end-users using OpenID Connect 1.0 with IDCS and protect your Node.js based APIs.
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Of the various ways to transfer files to and from Oracle Database, buffering in Node.js is the easiest to implement. In this post, you’ll learn how to perform file uploads and downloads using buffered binds and fetches.
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In the last post in this series, I demonstrated how powerful functions added to the SQL engine in Oracle Database 12.2 allow you to generate JSON with ease. But what if you were doing something sufficiently complex that it required the procedural capabilities that PL/SQL provides? Well, you’re covered there too! In this post, I’ll show you how new JSON based object types can be used to get the job done.
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Oracle started adding JSON support to Oracle Database with version 12.1.0.2. The earliest support was targeted at storing, indexing, and querying JSON data. Version 12.2 rounded out that support by adding features for generating, exploring, and processing JSON data. See the JSON Developer’s Guide for a comprehensive overview of what’s now available. In this post, I’ll leverage the new SQL operators for JSON generation to convert the relational data to meet the goal.
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At this point in the series, the REST API supports basic CRUD capabilities on the employees endpoint. However, clients often need some control over how multiple records are fetched from the database. In this post, you’ll make the API more flexible by adding pagination, sorting, and filtering capabilities.
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In the last post, you added logic to the API for GET requests which retrieved data from the database. In this post, you will finish building out the basic CRUD functionality of the API by adding logic to handle POST, PUT, and DELETE requests on the employees endpoint.
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After taking a brief detour to create a generic database module, it’s time to continue building out the high-level components discussed in the parent post. In this post, you will add routing, controller, and database logic to handle an HTTP GET request on an “employees” API endpoint.
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With the web server in place, it’s time to look into some database basics. As mentioned in the parent post, this series will use the Oracle Database driver/API for Node.js (node-oracledb) to interact with the database. In this post, you’ll create a module that’s responsible for starting up and shutting down a database connection pool. You’ll also add a function that simplifies executing simple statements by getting and releasing connections from the pool automatically.
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