Hi Christian, > I would like to contribute to the OOo development process.
Let me join Ocke in giving you a "Welcome" :) > I've picked out the "Joins in dBase queries" project, as I like > parsers and know dBase dialects quite well. My problem is the lack of > time, so don't expect to get results very soon. Additionally, I will > have to do some "warming up" before I can do useful contributions (I did > not use too much of the OO database stuff before, and never installed > nor looked into the SDK). > > Is it worth while and how to start? Since the project is about extending the existing drivers, it's probably good to set up an OpenOffice.org build environment first [1]. Once this is done (please tell us :), you might want to get a feeling for the existing code in the locations Ocke mentioned: connectivity/source/drivers/dbase|file. OStatement_Base::construct [2] in FStatement.cxx is the entry point where statement objects (you might want also want to read in the Developer's Guide [3] about statements and result sets) are constructed, and where currently statements with more than one table are rejected. Familarizing with our parser [4] and iterator [5] might also be a good idea - they are the basis for analyzing SQL statements, and iterating through an SQL parse tree. I think the basic idea would be to enhance the statement classes. Currently, they know exactly one table (as m_pTable) and a set of columns from this table. Before going into detail here (which Ocke could do better than me, anyway, since he's the author of those drivers), I suggest you set up the pre-requisites to build/debug OpenOffice.org, and perhaps sneak into the existing code to get an initial feeling for it. Ciao Frank [1]http://tools.openoffice.org [2]http://ooo.ximian.com/lxr/source/dba/connectivity/source/drivers/file/FStatement.cxx#487 [3]http://api.openoffice.org/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.html [4]http://ooo.ximian.com/lxr/source/dba/connectivity/inc/connectivity/sqlparse.hxx#134 [5]http://ooo.ximian.com/lxr/source/dba/connectivity/inc/connectivity/sqliterator.hxx#106 -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Database http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
