Re: [gnome-db] problem (?) in docs for 3.99

[Mark Johnson <mrj001 shaw ca>]

Vivien Malerba wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:29 AM, Mark Johnson <mrj001 shaw ca> wrote:
>   
> > On page:
> >  http://library.gnome.org/devel/libgda-4.0/3.99/GdaSqlParser.html
> >  we find the following explanation of variables in the SQL string:
> >
> >  ##NAME[::TYPE[::NULL]]: for a variable named NAME with the optional type
> >  TYPE (which can be a GType name or a custom database type name), and
> >  with the optional "::NULL" to instruct that the variable can be NULL.
> >
> >  It says I can use a GType name.  Does that not include "GString"?  I get
> >  the following error:
> >     
>
> The GLib type for a string is "gchararray" (it's in the GLib), which
> you should use instead of "GString". However Libgda also recognizes
> "string" for the same type. If you think "GString" should also be
> recognized , then I can add it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vivien.
>
>   
No, that's OK.  I found in the source code where I could use 'string' as 
the type.  I had the mistaken impression that GString was part of the 
GType hierarchy.  A closer look at:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Strings.html
shows it is a struct, without the GType class extras.

Thanks,
Mark