Spanner

UI Bakery allows you to easily connect to a Spanner database with no need for additional layers like APIs or third-party services.

Configuration

Prerequisites

To establish a connection between UI Bakery and Spanner, you will first need to create a private key.

Connecting the data source

Once you've obtained the key you can proceed to connecting the data source.

1. On the Data sources page, click Connect, and select Spanner in the Data sources list.

2. Specify the private key you've obtained previously in the Service Account Credentials field.

3. Next, provide all other required credentials.

4. Click Test connection to check whether the data source can be connected, and then click Connect Datasource to complete the setup.

UI Bakery will extract the database structure and store column types. This data will be used to suggest the proper table columns and form field types.

Usage

Once you have established a connection between UI Bakery and Spanner, you can access its data - load it and send it back. Below are the supported action types:

• Load Table
• Load Row
• Create Row
• Bulk Create Rows
• Update Row
• Delete Row
• Bulk Delete Rows
• SQL Query

You can run the action and make sure the data is loaded in the Result tab.

After executing an action, you might also want to transform or map your data and display it in a component. Check out the following pages for more information👇

Data mapping & transforming

Bind data to UI