Re: Storage API

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 11:29 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 16:31 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Heya,
> >
> > I've started writing a simple database-like application in Javascript
> > using GTK+, and I wondered about what to use for storage.
> >
> > gjs currently doesn't have bindings for SQLite, and using intermediate
> > bindings like libgda I found too low-level (provider-specific SQL,
>
> libgda's GdaSqlBuilder makes this a bit more pleasant and safer,
> avoiding most provider-specific stuff. Of course, it doesn't hide SQL
> entirely.

It's nicer, but still SQL.

Migration between versions of schemas is pretty complicated, you still
need to create the schemas, and though not directly related to SQL, you
still need to put a lot of effort marshalling objects in the DB to and
from your own object type.