AWS Athena JDBC PreparedStatement

Question

I don't manage to make AWS Athena JDBC driver working with PreparedStatement and binded variables. If I put the desired value of a column directly in the SQL string, it works. But if I use placeholders '?' and I bind variables with setters of PreparedStatement, it does not work. Of course, we know we have to use the second way of doing (for caching, avoid SQL injection and so on).

I use JDBC Driver AthenaJDBC42_2.0.2.jar. I get the following error when trying to use placeholders '?' in the SQL String. The error is thrown when I get the PreparedStatement from the JDBC Connection. It complains about parameters not being found. But I set them after in the code. How can I set the parameters before getting the PreparedStatement :-) ?

java.sql.SQLException: [Simba][AthenaJDBC](100071) An error has been thrown from the AWS Athena client. SYNTAX_ERROR: line 1:1: Incorrect number of parameters: expected 1 but found 0

at com.simba.athena.athena.api.AJClient.executeQuery(Unknown Source)
at com.simba.athena.athena.dataengine.AJQueryExecutor.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.simba.athena.athena.dataengine.AJDataEngine.prepare(Unknown Source)
at com.simba.athena.jdbc.common.SPreparedStatement.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.simba.athena.jdbc.jdbc41.S41PreparedStatement.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.simba.athena.jdbc.jdbc42.S42PreparedStatement.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.simba.athena.jdbc.jdbc42.JDBC42ObjectFactory.createPreparedStatement(Unknown Source)
at com.simba.athena.athena.jdbc42.AJJDBC42ObjectFactory.createPreparedStatement(Unknown Source)
at com.simba.athena.jdbc.common.SConnection.prepareStatement(Unknown Source)
at com.simba.athena.jdbc.common.SConnection.prepareStatement(Unknown Source)
at ****************************************************
Caused by: com.simba.athena.support.exceptions.GeneralException: [Simba][AthenaJDBC](100071) An error has been thrown from the AWS Athena client. SYNTAX_ERROR: line 1:1: Incorrect number of parameters: expected 1 but found 0
... 37 more

Am I doing something wrong ? Here is the code

    @Test
public void testWhichFails() throws SQLException {
    try (Connection connection = athenaConnexion()) {
        String sql = "select * from my_table where col = ? limit 10";
        try (PreparedStatement ps = connection.prepareStatement(sql)) {
            ps.setInt(1, 30);
            try (ResultSet rs = ps.executeQuery()) {
                while (rs.next()) {
                    System.out.println("rs.getString(1) = " + rs.getString(1));
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

@Test
public void testWhichWorks() throws SQLException {
    try (Connection connection = athenaConnexion()) {
        String sql = "select * from my_table where col = 30 limit 10";
        try (PreparedStatement ps = connection.prepareStatement(sql)) {
            //ps.setInt(1, 30);
            try (ResultSet rs = ps.executeQuery()) {
                while (rs.next()) {
                    System.out.println("rs.getString(1) = " + rs.getString(1));
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

Athena supports only SQL functions listed here Athena SQL functions which in turn are based on Functions and Operators Presto version 0.172 with the following list of Athena's SQL related limitations. Prepared statements can be used in the new version of Presto Presto Documentation. However, Athena does not support this new version yet. You can always write to the Athena support team to ask for the PREPARE function to be added.

Answer 2

Currently, I don't think the Athena JDBC jar supports prepared statements with position variables. While using myBatis, the prepared statement variable #{variable} didn't work, while the string replacement ${variable} did.

• select * from my_table where col = #{col} limit 10 didn't work
• select * from my_table where col = ${col} limit 10 did work

I think the error occurs because the Athena SConnection object doesn't support position variables, but since I don't have the source, I can't verify.