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How can I get all database table names in Moodle using API

I need list of the database tables used by Moodle.
How can I get it ? Is there any API for that either in Java or PHP ?
I checked - APIs like - Data definition API, Data Manipulation API , Web Services but I could not find what I require.
These API help getting data from Moodle, but I need MetaData.
Please help. Thanks in Advance.

You can use this in Moodle
$tables = $DB->get_tables();
also
foreach ($tables as $table) {
$columns = $DB->get_columns();
foreach ($columns as $column) {
...
}
}
Or use the information_schema
SELECT table_name
FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_schema = 'yourmoodledatabasename'

Issue in getting db data using Hibernate query

Please look below db table relationship
comapny to product->many to many
product to item->many to many
Now, I need to get All items used in a company by using hibernate. Below is my efforts.
Criteria c = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createCriteria(Company.class);
c.add(Restrictions.eq("companyId", companyId));
Criteria c2 = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createCriteria(Item.class);
c2.add(c);//not correct parameter and trying to correct
List<Item> data = c2.list();
Above code is not correct. Please help me by giving right direction!

How to use Hibernate to query a MySQL database with indexes

I have an application developed based on MySQL that is connected through Hibernate. I used DAO utility code to query the database. Now I need optimize my database query by indexes. My question is, how can I query data through Hibernate DAO utility code and make sure indexes are used in MySQL database when queries are executed. Any hints or pointers to existing examples are appreciated!
Update: Just want to make the question more understandable a little bit. Following is the code I used to query the MySQL database through Hibernated DAO utility codes. I'm not directly using HQL here. Any suggestions for a best solution? If needed, I will rewrite the database query code and use HQL directly instead.
public static List<Measurements> getMeasurementsList(String physicalId, String startdate, String enddate) {
List<Measurements> listOfMeasurements = new ArrayList<Measurements>();
Timestamp queryStartDate = toTimestamp(startdate);
Timestamp queryEndDate = toTimestamp(enddate);
MeasurementsDAO measurementsDAO = new MeasurementsDAO();
PhysicalLocationDAO physicalLocationDAO = new PhysicalLocationDAO();
short id = Short.parseShort(physicalId);
List physicalLocationList = physicalLocationDAO.findByProperty("physicalId", id);
Iterator ite = physicalLocationList.iterator();
while(ite.hasNext()) {
PhysicalLocation physicalLocation = (PhysicalLocation)ite.next();
List measurementsList = measurementsDAO.findByProperty("physicalLocation", physicalLocation);
Iterator jte = measurementsList.iterator();
while(jte.hasNext()){
Measurements measurements = (Measurements)jte.next();
if(measurements.getMeasTstime().after(queryStartDate)
&& measurements.getMeasTstime().before(queryEndDate)) {
listOfMeasurements.add(measurements);
}
}
}
return listOfMeasurements;
}

Just like with SQL, you don't need to do anything special. Just execute your queries as usual, and the database will use the indices you've created to optimize them, if possible.
For example, let's say you have a HQL query that searches all the products that have a given name:
select p from Product where p.name = :name
This query will be translated by Hibernate to SQL:
select p.id, p.name, p.price, p.code from product p where p.name = ?
If you don't have any index set on product.name, the database will have to scan the whole table of products to find those that have the given name.
If you have an index set on product.name, the database will determine that, given the query, it's useful to use this index, and will thus know which rows have the given name thanks to the index. It willl thus be able to only read a small subset of the rows to return the queries data.
This is all transparent to you. You just need to know which queries are slow and frequent enough to justify the creation of an index to speed them up.

How to display a database columns using CRUD in play framework?

I want to display the data of a postgresql database using the CRUD in the play framework; I looked for any examples to get idea which I didn't find after a long time of searching in google. Someone help me with this if you can or post a valid link regarding this. Thanks in advance!
I use, Play 1.2.5, java and postgresql.

I assume you want to do this in your application code in runtime.
You can execute query using DB plugin to search DB metadata using native PostgreSQL queries.
Here's an example how to get column names of my system DOCUMENT table:
List<String> columns = new ArrayList<>();
ResultSet result = DB.executeQuery("select column_name from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS where table_name = 'DOCUMENT';");
while(result.next()) {
String column = result.getString(1);
columns.add(column);
}
This note that code is somewhat simplified and you should use prepared statements if anything in this query will be inserted from data that user or any other system entered.
Use DB.getConnection().prepareStatement() to get PreparedStatement instance.

Transform Cassandra query result to POJO with Astyanax

I am working in a Spring web application using Cassandra with Astyanax client. I want to transform result data retrieved from Cassandra queries to a POJO, but I do not know which library or Astyanax API support this.
For example, I have User column family (CF) with some basic properties (username, password, email) and other related additional information can be added to this CF. Then I fetch one User row from that CF by using OperationResult> to hold the data returned, like this:
OperationResult<ColumnList<String>> columns = getKeyspace().prepareQuery(getColumnFamily()).getRow(rowKey).execute();
What I want to do next is populating "columns" to my User object. Here, I have 2 problems and could you please help me solve this:
1/ What is the best structure of User class to hold the corresponding data retrieved from User CF? My suggestion is:
public class User {
String userName, password, email; // Basic properties
Map<String, Object> additionalInfo;
}
2/ How can I transform the Cassandra data to this POJO by using a generic method (so that it can be applied to every single CF which has mapped POJO)?
I am so sorry if there are some stupid dummy things in my questions, because I have just approached NoSQL concepts and Cassandra as well as Astyanax for 2 weeks.
Thank you so much for your help.

You can try Achilles : https://github.com/doanduyhai/achilles, an JPA compliant Entity Manager for Cassandra
Right now there is a complete implementation using Thrift API via Hector.
The CQL3 implementation using Datastax Java Driver is in progress. A beta version will be available in few months (July-August 2013)
CQL3 is great but it's still too low level because you need to extract the data yourself from the ResultSet. It's like coming back to the time when only JDBC Template was available.
Achilles is there to fill the gap.

I would suggest you to use some library like Playorm using which you can easily perform CRUD operations on your entities. See this for an example that how you can create a User object and then you can get the POJO easily by
User user1 = mgr.find(User.class, email);
Assuming that email is your NoSqlId(Primary key or row key in Cassandra).

I use com.netflix.astyanax.mapping.Mapping and com.netflix.astyanax.mapping.MappingCache for exactly this purpose.