Re: [Vala] [gnome-db] DataBase as a Gee Collection of Collections

[Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com>]

On 22 December 2011 22:01, Daniel Espinosa <esodan gmail com> wrote:

> I'm planning to create an implementation of interfaces to access a
> database with classes and interfaces from Gee.
>
> This thread is planned to collect comments, suggestions and track
> implementations. May be I can add a link on live.gnome.org when I have
> something functional and solid plans.
>
> First Concepts:
>
> * A database is a collection of schemas and other objects
> * Each schema have a collection of tables, views and other objects
> that have Rows
> * A Row is a collection of values with different types and with
> attributes like: PRIMARY KEY, NAME, TYPE, VALUE, REFERENCEDBY,
> REFERENCE
> * REFERENCEBY and REFERENCE attributes can be used to get a collection
> of related values from other table collection
>
>
> First implementation ideas:
>
> * Define Interfaces and implementator classes , like Gee does, to
> allow any one to access any kind of data. For now current GDA's
> infrastructure will be used.

Libgda reports all this information in a GdaMetaStruct object.

Regards,

Vivien