Re: [gnome-db] GDA in-memory dictionary

[Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com>]

2005/8/11, Juan Manuel Mouriz <jmouriz gmail com>:
> Hi,
> 
> I am writing a data dictionary to store in memory the connections
> schemas (DATABASES, TABLES, FIELS, ...). In this dictionary I need
> store column relation type (none, one to many, many to one), so I
> write my own column object that inherits from GdaColumn. MyColumn is a
> GdaColumn type, but only store relation type. The question is: could
> GDA column add relation type?. A in-memory data dictionary would be
> very useful in GDA too.
> 
> My idea is, first a enumeration:
> 
> typedef enum
> {
>         GDA_REFERENCE_TYPE_NONE,
>         GDA_REFERENCE_TYPE_ONE_TO_MANY,
>         GDA_REFERENCE_TYPE_MANY_TO_ONE,
>         GDA_REFERENCE_TYPE_UNKNOWN
> } GdaReferenceType;
> 
> Then, gda_column_[sg]et_reference_type ().

The libgnomedb already has such a data dictionary, it's the
GnomeDbDict object which is fairly complete; see if it does what you
want!

Cheers,

Vivien