Re: [gnome-db] Database Objects

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 16:38, Cleber Rodrigues Rosa Junior wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 17:23, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > I18N related: should we allow the user to choose what in language to
> > > get/set the descriptive information or just respect the default locale
> > > setting?
> > > 
> > > I mean, should we go with: 
> > > 
> > > (I) - gda_xml_database_set_short_description (GdaXmlDatabase *xmldb,
> > > const gchar *user_input);
> > > 
> > > or
> > > 
> > > (II) - gda_xml_databse_set_short_description (GdaXmlDatabase *xmldb,
> > > const gchar *user_input, const gchar *language);
> > > 
> > I think we coud just use the GdaParameterList's for this, and have the
> > client specify a language in the parameters, or if not specified,
> > neither by the client nor in the XML file, use the default locale.
> 
> According to my modified xmldb file, an entity (database, table, etc...)
> has a name (which will be equal to the name in the underlying db, that
> is, never localized). Only the descriptive (user visible) info is
> localized.
> 
> So, do you mean these functions could take a GdaParameterList? I don't
> see the reason to use a list of parameters when we only have one
> (language)! 
> 
no, I'm sorry, I was confused.

> So, if I'm not missing something here, I guess we should go with (II)
> and use the default locale if 'language' is NULL.
> 
> Is this ok?
>
yes, perfect. In fact, that's the same as gda_xml_database_set_name and
similar functions, so it makes a lot of sense.

cheers
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