GC, QOF and queries

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Nov 2 22:04:12 EST 2006


Quoting Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>:

> On Thu, 2006-02-11 at 16:53 -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:47:30AM -0500, Phil Longstaff wrote:
>> > I have started working on a gda backend and am starting with a QofQuery
>> > -> SQL translator.
>>
>> Have you looked at just directly using the GdaQuery objects?  You can
>> constuct an abstract query out of GdaQueryFieldFields,
>> GdaQueryFieldValues and such.  Then, libgda will emit the
>> provider-specific SQL for that query.
>
> I hadn't yet.  I had an older version of libgda which didn't have
> GdaQuery.  I've downloaded the latest version and am looking at it.

What version of LibGDA do you need to get GdaQuery?  Is libgda-1.9.100
recent enough?  Or do you need something more recent than that?  (I ask
because 1.9.100 is what FC5 has).

>> Anyway, try to avoid writing the SQL emitter, if you can.
>
> I don't really want to gut the core of GC and rebuild it around Gda.

Probably a good idea...

> Phil

-derek

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