Re: [gnome-db] Introducing non blocking (asynchronous) functions in libgda

[DANIELLLANO <DANIELLLANO terra es>]

Vivien Malerba wrote:
> On 4/19/05, DANIELLLANO <DANIELLLANO terra es> wrote:
> > Vivien Malerba wrote:
> > > I want to introduce non blocking (asynchronous) functions in libgda.
> > 
> > Great to know about that!!!
> > 
> > I'd like to see libgda having all the current blocking functions moving
> > to non blocking functions.
> > 
> > Do you have any more specific plans about that?
> 
> I've written a small object (GdaThreader) which makes it easy to run a
> new thread and be notified when the thread finishes (the notification
> itself occurs in an idle loop in the main thread, not in the thread
> which has finished, which makes it easy to use it with GTK). That
> object needs a bit more work (add mutexes to some variables) and is
> useable (Mergeant uses it).
> 
> I planned to use it in libgda to make asynchronous queries to a
> GdaConnection (thus creating a
> gda_connection_execute_single_command_async() method), but I don't
> have a timetable for that, and it's not on my current TODO list.
> 
> Adding asynchronous calls to other parts of libgda should not be very
> difficult, but beware that no internal variable or object is thread
> aware at this point...
> 
> The GdaThreader object is quite simple by itself, and you can see how
> it's used in mergeant.

Is GdaThreader very Gda specific or is it general enough to be included
in glib?

Are you publishing your intermediate work for comments?