Re: SQL parser ready to hook up to Dia

[Andrew Halper <ashalper acm org>]

Cyrille Chepelov wrote:

> Also, your module is likely to set the properties of "this or that" object
> (UML classes, certainly). I'm currently rewriting the StdProp code, so that
> UML class and UML association become simple StdProp objects -- please see my
> recent announce post. One interesting effect is that you'll be able to *NOT*
> know what the internal structure of UML - Class (or whatever) is doing.
> What you'll be able to do is just pass a list of property values, and call
>         class_object->ops->set_props(class_object,props).
> This is what xfig and dxf are already doing ; unfortunately, my rewrite
> completely changes the interface to do this (struct Property and the ways to
> access its data members changes).... I expect it to be committed, or at
> least in a visible and useable state by monday (the version I posted does
> not work -- I've fixed a few bugs since, and I can now proudly announce that
> it loads all samples and passes running under Electric Fence -- but I must
> fix the plug-ins ASAP so you can see how they do. And of course, I must use
> the shiny new "nested array" property types to let you modify the Class
> object through the StdProp interface).

I don't mind waiting to try out the StdProp interface.  I can work on
the parser in the meantime, to get it parsing the DDL of actual database
platforms, instead of SQL/92, which no-one supports.

Andy