RE: [gnome-db] 'data-aquire' service and libgda

["Daniel Morgan" <danmorg sc rr com>]

I guess this is where Gonzalo's SQL parser comes in handy? :-)

I like the part about interacting with Gnumeric.

-----Original Message-----
From: gnome-db-list-admin gnome org
[mailto:gnome-db-list-admin gnome org] On Behalf Of Rodrigo Moya
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:04 PM
To: GNOME Office
Cc: GDA
Subject: [gnome-db] 'data-aquire' service and libgda

As was said in the IRC meeting, we have to define interfaces for
different things in libgnomeoffice. One of these interfaces I've thought
about is a 'data-aquisition' service, to get data from a GO app into
another GO app.

This service would just contain a set of methods for sending a request
for data ('a query') and get back an array of data (rows/columns), as in
a database SELECT.

[...]

For instance, implementing
this 'get_data' service in other non-database GO apps (MrProject,
Evolution, Gnumeric) would be as easy as creating a GdaDataModel, which
is easily done with libgda API, which contains many different types of
data models (GdaDataModelList, GdaDataModelArray, etc).

I think this can serve as a good way of sharing structured data
(rows/columns) between all GO apps.