diff --git a/src/main/java/rest/CreateGetResource.java b/src/main/java/rest/CreateGetResource.java
index 3347dbb..ef83df8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/rest/CreateGetResource.java
+++ b/src/main/java/rest/CreateGetResource.java
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ import java.util.Set;
 import dto.ScanObj;
 import dto.ConnectDB;
 
+import java.sql.Connection;
+import java.sql.DriverManager;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+
 import javax.ws.rs.DELETE;
 import javax.ws.rs.GET;
 import javax.ws.rs.POST;
@@ -19,6 +23,8 @@ import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 import javax.inject.Inject;
 import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
 
+import java.sql.*;
+
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper; 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter; 
 
@@ -32,18 +38,8 @@ public class CreateGetResource {
 
 
     public CreateGetResource() {
-    ConnectDB connectDB = new ConnectDB();
-    connectDB.connect();
-    // Connection conn = null; 
-
-    // try {
-    //     conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user,password);
-    //     System.out.println("connected to PGSQL");
-    // } catch (SQLException e) {
-    //     System.out.println(e.getMessage());
-    // }
-
-        //example used to show the get obviously needs deleting
+
+
         Scans.add(new ScanObj("a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a"));
     }
 
@@ -51,8 +47,19 @@ public class CreateGetResource {
     @Path("/{scanId}")
     public Set<ScanObj> list(@PathParam("scanId") String scanId) {
         //use to return specific scanIds just use usual fetch from sets, will be querying hte db directly here
+        try { 
+            ConnectDB connectDB = new ConnectDB();
+            Connection conn = connectDB.connect();
+            String sql = "SELECT" + scanId + "FROM scans";
+            PreparedStatement preparedStatment = conn.prepareStatement(sql);
+            preparedStatment.executeQuery(sql);
+        } catch (SQLException e){
+            System.out.println("failed");
+        }
+        // conn.
         System.out.println(Scans);
         System.out.println(scanId);
+
         return Scans;
     }
 }
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