Connection to Mysql from NodeJS on Heroku server - mysql

Question

ANy idea how can I connect from NodeJs to the Mysql ClearDB on Heroku?
I was able to connect to the ClearDB Mysql runing on Heroku from Navicat, I even created a table called t_users. But I'm having problems connecting from NodeJs from Heroku.
This is my code, it is very simple: everything works find until it tries to connect to MySQL
web.js:
var express = require("express");
var app = express();
app.use(express.logger());
var mysql = require('mysql');
var connection = mysql.createConnection({
host : 'us-cdbr-east-04.cleardb.com',
user : '',
password : '',
database : ''
});
connection.connect();
app.get('/', function(request, response) {
response.send('Hello World!!!! HOLA MUNDOOOOO!!!');
connection.query('SELECT 1 + 1 AS solution', function(err, rows, fields) {
if (err) throw err;
response.send('The solution is: ', rows[0].solution);
});
});
var port = process.env.PORT || 5000;
app.listen(port, function() {
console.log("Listening on " + port);
});
This is what I got when I run on the command line: Heroku config
C:\wamp\www\Nodejs_MySql_Heroku>heroku config
=== frozen-wave-8356 Config Vars
CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL: mysql://b32fa719432e40:87de815a#us-cdbr-east-04.cleardb.com/heroku_28437b49d76cc53?reconnect=true
PATH: bin:node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
This is the LOG:
http://d.pr/i/cExL
ANy idea how can I connect from NodeJs to the Mysql ClearDB on Heroku?
Thanks

Answer 1

Try this. Hope this will help you
mysql://b32fa719432e40:87de815a#us-cdbr-east-04.cleardb.com/heroku_28437b49d76cc53?reconnect=true
var connection = mysql.createConnection({
host : 'us-cdbr-east-04.cleardb.com',
user : 'b32fa719432e40',
password : '87de815a',
database : 'heroku_28437b49d76cc53'
});
Use this details and connect it in mySQL work bench, and import your localhost db

Answer 2

The base code was ok, I missed some NodeJS code.
I did a video explaining how to connect to MySqlusing NodeJS on a Heroku server, take a look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OGHdii_42s
This is the code in case you want to see:
https://github.com/mescalito/MySql-NodeJS-Heroku

Answer 3

createConnections accepts config as well as connectionString.
export function createConnection(connectionUri: string | ConnectionConfig): Connection;
So below solution would work.
var connection = mysql.createConnection('mysql://b32fa719432e40:87de815a#us-cdbr-east-04.cleardb.com/heroku_28437b49d76cc53?reconnect=true);
or you can set the connection url in environment variable DATABASE_URL
var connection = mysql.createConnection(process.env.DATABASE_URL);

Answer 4

One should need to use pool connection for database connection to handle better mysql conncurrent request as follows
var pool = mysql.createPool({
connectionLimit : 100,
host : 'us-cdbr-iron-east-05.cleardb.net',
user : 'b5837b0f1d3d06',
password : '9d9ae3d5',
database : 'heroku_db89e2842543609',
debug : 'false'
});
It just because pool maintain the connection.release() on its own , so you do not have to bother where you should need to release the connection.
On the other hand you should need to provide user, password and database name as i mentioned in my code.
When u get provisioned from heroku then you get a cleardb database name.
on clicking clear db database button you will find username and password.
and to get database url you have to run the following commands in terminal as follows;
heroku login
heroku app -all (it shows the app list name )
heroku config --app appname (it will provide the database url).
Rest you would need to worry, just add all dependency into your package.json before pushing to heroku master.
After then you will have no problem on deploying nodejs application to heroku server.

Answer 5

Looking at the log timestamps, it seems like your connections are timing out. Either create a wrapper for 'getConnection' that checks the connection health and re-establishes if necessary, or try to use the mysql Connection Pool feature, which can do that for you.