I've fixed the code to log all Throwables - see 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPTIQ-377 - hopefully the fix it will 
make it easier for the next poor soul.

Can you let me know whether it works to add "caseSensitive=false" to the JDBC 
URL?

Julian


On Aug 17, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Ionut Dobre <[email protected]> wrote:

> The uncaught error was something like: "ERROR [UnregisteredDriver] 
> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/hydromatic/linq4j/QueryProvider".
> 
> Ionut
> 
> On Aug 17, 2014, at 6:01 PM, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Great feedback - thanks for your detective work!
>> 
>> Do you recall what was the type of the uncaught error? It's not usually
>> wise to have a 'catch (Throwable)' clause but you've convinced me that it
>> makes sense here.
>> 
>> I'll also looking into creating an 'optiq-all' jar with all dependencies
>> (except adapter-specific dependencies like MongoDB). It would have made
>> your job a lot easier.
>> 
>> I believe that you can add 'caseSensitive=false' to the jdbc:optiq: connect
>> string. Then you don't need to change any code.
>> 
>> Julian
>> On Aug 17, 2014 1:19 AM, "Ionut Dobre" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> I had the same error as the guys from the old mailing list
>>> "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class
>>> net.hydromatic.optiq.jdbc.Driver" (
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/optiq-dev/RiPFdBstVag) and indeed
>>> the problem was as someone notice from the UnregisteredDriver.java file, to
>>> be more precise:
>>> 
>>> protected static AvaticaFactory instantiateFactory(String
>>> factoryClassName) {
>>>   try {
>>>     final Class<?> clazz = Class.forName(factoryClassName);
>>>     return (AvaticaFactory) clazz.newInstance();
>>>   } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
>>>       logger.error(e);
>>>   } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
>>>       logger.error(e);
>>>   } catch (InstantiationException e) {
>>>       logger.error(e);
>>>   } catch (Exception e) {
>>>       logger.error(e);
>>>   }
>>> 
>>>     return null;
>>> }
>>> 
>>> (I modified a bit the code and I used something like:
>>> private static org.apache.log4j.Logger logger =
>>> org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(UnregisteredDriver.class);
>>> to see the logs in Tomcat)
>>> 
>>> And it was failing without any error message. This was voodoo! And then I
>>> got the idea to add a new catch at the end:
>>> 
>>> catch(Throwable t) {
>>>       logger.error(t);
>>>   }
>>> 
>>> And indeed, I catch a 'Throwable' and it was failing because of a missing
>>> class; some of the maven dependencies weren't in the Tomcat path and long
>>> story short I added the following jars in the
>>> 'tomcat/webapps/saiku/WEB-INF/lib/' file:
>>> 
>>> - linq4j-0.4.jar
>>> - commons-compiler-2.7.3.jar
>>> - guava-18.0-rc1.jar
>>> - jackson-annotations-2.3.0.jar
>>> - jackson-core-2.3.0.jar
>>> - jackson-databind-2.1.1.jar
>>> - janino-2.7.3.jar
>>> - mongo-java-driver-2.11.1.jar
>>> 
>>> Then everything was working, Saiku was connected the mongodb database, but
>>> Mondrian creates queries like (I omitted the GROUP BY part):
>>> 
>>> select "zips"."city" as "c0" from "zips" as "zips" group by "zips"."city";
>>> 
>>> And Optiq doesn't validate queries with quotes (queries like: 'select
>>> zips.city as c0 from zips as zips group by zips.city' are executed), and
>>> since I was using Mondrian 3.7 I couldn't use '<Schema name="Mongo_Test"
>>> quoteSql="false">', so I looked for a way to make Optiq ignore the quotes
>>> and I found that the problem was a flag 'caseSensitive' used in different
>>> classes (PlannerImpl.java, InternalProperty.java) and the problem started
>>> in OptiqCatalogReader class in validating table/columns names functions
>>> ('getTable', 'field').
>>> 
>>> And since I was pressured by the time to investigate if I can use Mondrian
>>> with Mongodb and check the performance I hardcoded caseSensitive to false
>>> and it worked, I run a MDX query in Saiku against a mongodb test database
>>> (the famous 'zips' collection).
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Ionut
> 

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