On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:45:30PM +0000, David Baird wrote:
> On 11/5/05, Jim Mintha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
...
> > Having worked backwards to the beerdb example, I'm now trying to get
> > it to work with my real database which is using Oracle.  This is not
> > working and it seems to be a problem that the C:D:Oracle module
> > doesn't do enough to keep formbuilder happy.  Anyone else running
> > formbuilder with Oracle?  Or even just standard Maypole with Oracle
> > (which does work, but took a bit of hacking)  I will spend some time
> > digging in the C::D::Formbuilder stuff to see if I can make it work
> > with Oracle (or convince management to use MySQL for this DB :) )
> 
> Great! The code you need to look at is probably in
> CDBI::FormBuilder::Meta::Table and CDBI::FormBuilder::Meta::Column.
> These are standalone, so you can try setting up a simple test script
> that uses these modules to try and read metadata from your database.
> I'm keen to release these as an independent package, but I've only run
> them against MySQL and SQLite, so I want to know if they work against
> other beasts before going ahead.

Funny, I should have checked my email a bit earlier.  I just spent the
last while playing in the perl debugger to understand how the
CDBI::FormBuilder stuff works.  I'm just at the point of understanding
the details of C:D:F:Table & Column :)  It is definitely not getting
information about the oracle database, hopefully I'll be able to track
down why shortly.

Jim

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