On Tuesday, 1 March 2016 at 21:00:30 UTC, Erik Smith wrote:
The main focus of this project is to bring a standard interface
for database clients. This is similar to the purpose of JDBC
(java) and DBI (perl). While there is some existing work in
place (ddbc, etc.c.odbc.sql, vibe.d and other newer projects),
my goal, after a lengthly period of community review/revision,
is to achieve Phobos inclusion for the interface standard and
also some of the implementations. There is debate on whether
the implementations belong there, but I have made the
implementation Phobos compatible (by using templates) while
this issue is sorted out.
My quick comments:
1. In my opinion it should not be called std.database, but let's
say "std.dbc".
This is because it looks like a wrapper over db clients.
Moreover one may say it's almost impossible to make a common and
effective interface which would work with all databases. e.g.
someone on Wikipedia argues ODBC is obolete (check "ODBC today")
2. I'm not against such a functionality in Phobos. However your
project seems to be a duplication of the DDBC project. And it was
not proposed for inclusion so often.
3. What I call a D Database API could be described as:
- Database object
- DbCollection object (equivalent to array)
- ranges + std.algorithm
And here is my implementation (experimental) of this API:
https://github.com/PiotrekDlang/AirLock/tree/master/docs/database/design.md
https://github.com/PiotrekDlang/AirLock/tree/master/src
Piotrek
