El jue, 18-08-2005 a las 12:11, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany escribió: > Hi Santiago, > > sorry for the delay in answering, this shouldn't have happened, > especially since you're new to this list :-\. So, a late "Welcome" from > my side :)
No problem. Sometimes I don't have the time to write either. > It means that the documentation at least needs to be more explicit. > Then, I'd suggest it should explicitly say that it returns a descriptor > which, without any change except to the name, can be used to create a > new table which is a copy of the original one. Then, it's a bug that it > currently doesn't. I'm a little confused about [OPTIONAL]s in the API. I was using the ODBC driver with a PostgreSQL database. The call to createDataDescriptor doesn't fail, but seems to return nothing. Calling some methods on other optional interfaces (like getKeys on a connection to a DBASE database) raise an exception, which seems correct for me. I would prefer to play around a little bit with the database API, before I file an issue, because my feeling is that I still have too much to learn. These are my first steps both on UNO development and OO.org API. My intention was to create a basic database migration wizard, at the higher possible level of abstraction (sdb or sdbcx), without messing with sdbc drivers directly. I believed that I could copy a table structure between databases just using this call to createDataDescriptor, but then realized that there are 'incompatible' properties to be aware of. So, I used the long way, analyzing each table structure and recreating it on an empty descriptor. You could see this first attempt on http://www.oooxtremo.org, on the section 'Repositorio' (in spanish). As I said, these are my first steps, so I pressume it won't work on many cases, but I could migrate some basic databases I have on a PostgreSQL server. Thanks for your (late :-D) answer, Santiago Bosio. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
