Re: Future new database components

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 23/06/2024 à 00:01, d4t4full@xxxxxxxxx a écrit :
> Benôit,
>
> (disclaimer: stupid mobile mail client won't allow to type a reply below 
> the original message)
>
> That's /awesome/ news!
>
> That goal is precisely what I wanted to achieve years ago in prior 
> Gambas versions with ODBC, but since the low-level DB components such as 
> *Result* were not really accessible from higher level Gambas (I mean 
> instancing, populating, etc), it wasn't possible.
>
> Is this already in the repo? Any new branch or something?
>
> If so, I'll get the latest commit, particularly for ODBC, and try to 
> figure it out (no promises though!). Will also have to dust off my dev 
> virtual machine...
>
> By the way: Thank you for your continued efforts to improve an already 
> complete and excellent product.
>
> Regards,
> zxMarce.

Hi,

The rewrite of the database component is almost finished, so we can talk 
about the rewrite of the ODBC driver.

I rewrote all other database drivers the same way: I took the old C 
code, and rewrote in Gambas what does not need explicit calls to the 
underlying database client library.

For ODBC, you have two choices:

- Do the same way.

- Only provide the interface to the ODBC API in the database driver C 
part, so that there is more Gambas code than C Code - for those who are 
easier with Gambas than C :-)

So if you want to rewrite the ODBC driver, tell me what you prefer, and 
I will explain you how to proceed.

Regards,

--
Benoît Minisini.