Java adding extra passed variables

Question

First of all, I should probably mention that I'm pretty new to Java.

I'm using PircBot and JDBC to make an irc bot that returns some MySQL values. The problem I'm having is that I want to make prepared statements to protect from SQL injection. However, because I can't add extra variables into my method, I can't seem to get it to work.

This is my code as of now: http://pastebin.com/K8zCKt9f

Basically, I want to use prepared SQL statements, but I can't pass Connection conn into the onMessage method without it messing up (onMessage does not trigger on IRC). This means that I'd have to create a new connection every time there's an if statement, as opposed to how it works right now with the MySQL method.

I'm sure there's an easier/cleaner way to do this, but I can't seem to figure it out. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

Use a member variable to store the connection, and construct the connection when the Ross-object is constructed:

public class Ross extends PircBot {

    private Connection conn;


    public Ross() {

            this.setName("RICK_ROSS");
            this.setVersion("v1.0");
            this.setLogin("not_a_bot");
            if (!main.password.equals("")) this.sendMessage(main.loginbot, "auth "+main.username+" "+main.password);

            //Set up MySQL-connection
            Connection conn = null;
            String url = "jdbc:mysql://";
            Class.forName ("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
            conn = DriverManager.getConnection (url,"","");
    }
    ...The rest...

Now you can use the member variable conn in other methods of the class.