Hi again! I finally found some time to work on the below idea of creating a sqlite-simple package that's modeled after postgresql-simple & mysql-simple.
A working prototype can be found here: https://github.com/nurpax/sqlite-simple I still need to do a bit of work on it to clean things up and add a bit more functionality. In particular, FromField instances are currently limited to only Ints and Strings - this is obviously not adequate for real use. I consider this to be ready for first release on hackage once I've done some more testing and closed the issues on https://github.com/nurpax/sqlite-simple/issues?milestone=1&state=open - but of course I may have missed something obvious. Comments, concerns? Let me know! Cheers, Janne On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Janne Hellsten <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I've been looking for better Haskell sqlite bindings for few months now. > > So far I've tried or investigated the following sqlite packages: > > - hdbc-sqlite3 > - sqlite > - direct-sqlite > > At the same time I've played around a bit with postgresql-simple. > I've come to quite like the postgresql-simple API and would like to > have a access API for sqlite. > > Unfortunately, all the existing sqlite bindings seem to offer a much > lower level interface. > > I'm thinking that if no *-simple style Haskell library exists for > sqlite3, I'd like to create one. > > I've exchanged a few e-mails about this with Leon and with his help > have a few ideas on how to go about it. > > Leon suggested that the design should be two libraries: one low-level > library that can be unsafe to use directly and another medium-level > package that's built on the low-level library. The medium part would > borrow pretty directly from existing *-simple packages. > > I dabbled a bit with my own low-level sqlite bindings but later came > to realize that the direct-sqlite package > (http://ireneknapp.com/software/) seems to be pretty close to what I'd > need. So I'm thinking that could be the low-level part of > sqlite-simple. > > Does this seem like a useful thing to build? (I know I'd need it.) > > Does something like this already exist? > > Thanks! > > Janne _______________________________________________ database-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/database-devel
