On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 20:30 +1300, Dru wrote:I thought about a bonddb -> GdaDataModel mapping tool. Would proberly work as long as signals still work well on widgets and its easy to get information back out of gdadata.
gnomedb widgets need ability easy ability to popualte widgets from non-libda sources (proberly already possible).
you just have to write a GdaDataModel-based class that access the non- libgda sources. Or you can just create a GdaDataModelArray, for instance, from the non-libgda source. Not sure if those are the easiest ways, do you have any better idea?
with possible tie-ins on sorting etc. libgda api needs to be able to return field information attributes.it already does return a lot of information per field. I know there are
still some of the bugs you opened not fixed. Is that the missing
information you're talking about?
Yip. this is the major one: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81590 also these ones also. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81589 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81587
I was gonna add this to bugzilla at some point, here are some useful libpq functions i currently use. I can write code to get around lack of them.
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PQftable();
Allows you to find out which table a field belongs to in an sql statement. Way to get around it is to use the libsql parser and guess.
PQoidValue();
Gives you the oid of the last record inserted. Can be got around if you know the primary keys and the defaults of the primary keys in advance. I explained details of this in previous email.
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Am i allowed to suggest breaking api compatiability? your current libgda api is rather big. Its kinda like everything low level ended up there. I think you should have a lower level library for sql queries or move some stuff out of libgda. a libgda_sqldbAPI is a bit complex and messy compared with other simpliercould you ellaborate on this please? I'd like to hear any comments about
data access libraries. It has other things in there that proberly shoulnd't be sitting in libgda, though i imagine this is because of having to support a range of datbases and not just simply SQL.
what you think is wrong
library? (could have seperate directories for files and statically link them into one libgda library)
And its got a lot of complexicties to it. It would be nice to just have something sweet and simple and fast.
Its a bit confusing on initialisation of connections, do you use GdaConnection or GdaClient to establish connections?
What does a GdaDataModel contain? Does it store information not recordset related, ie stuff for libgnomedb, should they be another new object which is higher up in api. the cvs and xml stuff, could that be in a file from gdadatamodel?
The append row,insert stuff, does that stuff work, ie do a select statement, then are able to append and update rows?
I found this quite complicated to write and many c files. The xml stuff i've never used. it looks useful but could it be in a libgda_xml library? Its got its own connectors functions etc. If you using xml databases shouldnt it be a provider in itself? And have a libgdb_xml for doing xml queries.
if your connected to a non sqlstandard langauge, can it convert sql to standard sql if you run a sql statement? Ok this doesn't make things simplier but more complicated. but it makes life a lot easier.
Is gda-value needed? What does gda-parameters do for sql statements? Whats difference between gda-command and gda connection for sending commands to db? Do gda-logging and gda-error both perform similar functions?
Notifiers are nice but i'd like it to happen manually. Not automatically update a gdadatamodel. leave it in the log or connection info that this record set is in need of a refresh. Or set callback functions on notifiers (proberly does this i just dont know how). gdaexport properly doesn't need to be in access library either. thats more of a tool. likewise for GdaSelect.
Memory freeing api functions. Where are they? Consitent names for freeing where possible.
Unforuntly most libraries leak memory. I have this bond app + gtk 1.4 + libpq, and it very slowly leaks memory, a lot less than bond2 app + gtk 2.4 + libpq however. Anyway, the programme runs for about 80 days or so under heavy usuage until it runs out of memory (only 64mbs of ram on machine its on). anyway , point is, memory leaks are nasty. esp when apps stop segfaulting and users never quit out.
gtk-config, all of that does config file handling?
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