Re: [gnome-db] gda_client_new

[Bas Driessen <bas driessen xobas com>]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 09:14 +0100, Vivien Malerba wrote:
> 2006/1/26, Bas Driessen <bas driessen xobas com>:
> >  Hello,
> >
> >  Regarding gda_client_new(). It now expects an argument of type GdaDict.
> > What is it? Do I need it? It is not clear in the documentation if I can pass
> > NULL to it. I did and all appears to work OK, but would like to know if that
> > is allowed. Also the example code in the doco does not reflect this new call
> > yet.
> >
>
> The GdaClient inherits the GdaObject, and every GdaObject is attached
> to a GdaDict object, this is the reason of the GdaDict argument of
> gda_client_new().
>
> However, there is almost no case when one would like to specify which
> GdaDict to use, so I'll change the signature of that function to
> GdaClient *gda_client_new();
>
> For the moment, you can use the NULL in place of the GdaDict argument.
Thanks for info Vivian. That was helpful. You don't have to change it back, it just confirms for me that passing NULL is a safe option.