Re: [Tracker] Database access abstraction

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 20:07 +0200, JÃrg Billeter wrote:
> as a preparation to support decomposed database tables in Tracker, I've
> been looking into how we could abstract database access so that the
> database schema can change without affecting the code in trackerd and
> tracker-indexer.
>
> I'm proposing to introduce an additional (private) library that acts as
> a high-level database interface, so it sits between libtracker-db and
> trackerd/tracker-indexer. That library, let's call it libtracker-data
> for now, is the only place where SQL queries get constructed.
>
> As a first step, we should probably just move relevant functions or
> function parts from trackerd and tracker-indexer to the new library and
> refactor and extend the library later. Looking at the current code, the
> API of libtracker-data would be composed of the following parts:

I've put a test version of libtracker-data online at
        http://www.gnome.org/~juergbi/tracker.git/

The new and moved functions are in src/libtracker-data/tracker-data-*
Any comments or suggestions?

JÃrg