Re: [gnome-db] Little API problems

[Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com>]

2005/9/13, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>:
> CCing the list because I think you forgot to.
> 
> Another thing:
> The documentation for gda_client_create_database() mentions
> gda_client_get_specs_to_create_database(). There is no such function,
> though the name is used in the documentation for
> gda_client_get_provider_specs(). I guess it's meant to provide the
> GdaParameterList* somehow, but it returns a char*. Example code in the
> documentation would help a lot here.
> 
> gda_client_drop_database() seems to have the same problem.

I've corrected the documentation (not yet in CVS though). Here is how
it works: if you want to create a database, call
gda_client_get_provider_specs(client, provider,
GDA_CLIENT_SPECS_CREATE_DATABASE)
which will give you an XML string which can be converted into a tree
by libxml and tells you which information the provider needs to create
tha database. For example, have a look at the
providers/postgres/postgres_specs_create_db.xml and the
providers/mysql/mysql_specs_create_db.xml files which are the returned
strings for the Postgres and MySQL providers.

Vivien