[os-libsynthesis] DB API + simple type

2010-05-14 Thread Patrick Ohly
Hello! I'm working on a modification of the engine which bypasses the obligatory data conversion via field lists and profiles. The use case for this are client and server which perfectly agree on some proprietary item data and thus need no conversion, or plugins which want to handle the data

Re: [os-libsynthesis] DB API + simple type

2010-05-14 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 10:46 +0100, Beat Forster wrote: Hello Patrick I'm working on a modification of the engine which bypasses the obligatory data conversion via field lists and profiles. The use case for this are client and server which perfectly agree on some proprietary item

Re: [os-libsynthesis] DB API + simple type

2010-05-14 Thread Beat Forster
Hi Patrick After reading the documentation of ContextSupport() it becomes a bit clearer, but not much. Where is the complete list of support rules that the plugin might have to handle? There is currently only this rule supported by the engine. Originally we thought there would be much

Re: [os-libsynthesis] DB API + simple type

2010-05-14 Thread Lukas Zeller
Hello Patrick, I think by far the simplest method would be NOT to try to bypass MultifieldItem, but derive it with an implementation that puts/gets data (and maybe metadata) into/from well-known string or BLOB fields. The entire DB API thing was developed long after we more or less settled for

Re: [os-libsynthesis] DB API + simple type

2010-05-14 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 17:28 +0100, Lukas Zeller wrote: Hello Patrick, I think by far the simplest method would be NOT to try to bypass MultifieldItem, but derive it with an implementation that puts/gets data (and maybe metadata) into/from well-known string or BLOB fields. The entire DB

Re: [os-libsynthesis] DB API + simple type

2010-05-14 Thread Lukas Zeller
Hello Patrick, On May 14, 2010, at 19:56 , Patrick Ohly wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 17:28 +0100, Lukas Zeller wrote: Hello Patrick, I think by far the simplest method would be NOT to try to bypass MultifieldItem, but derive it with an implementation that puts/gets data (and maybe