Re: patch for libgnomedb headers

From: Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo@gnome-db.org)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 19:38:11 EDT

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    On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 14:23, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    > > hmm, we've got, in libgda, a XML format to create
    > > .connection files
    > > which contain all necessary information to connect
    > > to the database. We
    > > can easily add there info for commands to be run.
    > >
    > > We've got also the XML query format, which although
    > > not use too
    > > extensively, it works pretty well. So, we can make a
    > > GUI to design the
    > > query, save that query to a file and run it over
    > > from the command line.
    > > It shouldn't be hard at all.
    > >
    > > What would be needed in the abiword part to do this?
    >
    > In order of precedence:
    >
    > 1) Some glue code to pass this data to GDA and then
    > get back a result set
    >
    hmm, we can have an importer in abiword for the GDA file format. Would
    that work?

    > 2) Some code to easily define the field names (you've
    > already mentioned the field-picker GUI that you intend
    > to work on)
    >
    I'm working on this right now.

    > 3) A GUI to easily create queries (though doing this
    > in Mergeant and saving the query in a way #1 can
    > recognize would definitely be preferable)
    >
    yes, that's also a possibility. We can make abiword understand mergeant
    files and import from them.

    cheers



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