Table of Contents

HOWTO for common tasks

Open a connection

Define a data source (DSN)

Execute a SELECT command

Execute an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE command

Get the last inserted row

Execute a DDL command

Get information about a table's columns

Validate a DML statement

Object Hierarchy

Initialization and configuration

Libgda initialization — Library initialization

Configuration — Access/Management of libgda configuration

Configuring libgda with environment variables

Connections & commands

Convenience functions — Do quickly some actions

GdaConnection — Management of connections to data sources

GdaSqlParser — SQL parser

GdaStatement — Single SQL statement

GdaBatch — Multiple SQL statements goupped

GdaHolder — Container for a single GValue

GdaSet — Container for several values

GdaSqlStatement — Structure which decomposes an SQL statement

GdaConnectionEvent — Any event which has occurred on a GdaConnection

GdaTransactionStatus — Keeps track of the transactional status of a connection

GdaXaTransaction — Distributed transaction manager

Description of the data model returned by gda_connection_get_meta_store_data()

GDA_CONNECTION_META_NAMESPACES

GDA_CONNECTION_META_TYPES

GDA_CONNECTION_META_TABLES

GDA_CONNECTION_META_VIEWS

GDA_CONNECTION_META_FIELDS

Virtual connections

GdaVirtualProvider — Base class for all virtual providers

GdaVproviderDataModel — Virtual provider for connections based on a list of GdaDataModel

GdaVproviderHub — Virtual provider for connections based on other connection

GdaVirtualConnection — Base class for all virtual connection objects

GdaVconnectionDataModel — Virtual connection based on a list of GdaDataModel

GdaVconnectionHub — Virtual connection which bind together connections

Data handling

Gda Value — Single value stored in a GdaDataModel

Blobs — Binary data and BLOBs handling

GdaDataModel — Basic data model class

GdaDataModel columns — Management of GdaDataModel column attributes

GdaDataModelIter — Data model iterator

GdaDataModelImport — Importing data from a string or a file

GdaDataAccessWrapper — Offers a random access on top of a cursor-only access data model

GdaDataModelArray — An implementation of GdaDataModel based on a GArray.

GdaDataModelBdb — GdaDataModel to access Berkeley DB database contents

GdaDataModelDir — GdaDataModel to list files in filesystem

GdaDataProxy — Proxy to hold modifications for any GdaDataModel, and provides the GdaDataModel interface itself

GdaDataComparator — Simple data model's contents comparison

GdaDataModelQuery — An implementation of GdaDataModel based on a SELECT query

Data conversions

GdaDataHandler — Interface which provides data handling capabilities

GdaHandlerString — Default handler for strings

GdaHandlerBoolean — Default handler for booleans

GdaHandlerTime — Default handler for time, date and timestamp

GdaHandlerNumerical — Default handler for numeric values

GdaHandlerBin — Default handler for binary values

GdaHandlerType — Default handler for GType values

Dictionary - metadata

Setup

Adding custom data

Database structure

Data types

SQL identifiers

Short and full names

Individual table description

GdaMetaStore — Dictionary object

GdaMetaStruct — In memory representation of some database objects

Data definition (DDL) queries

GdaServerOperation — Handles any DDL query in an abstract way

Miscellaneous

Utility functions

Logging — Log functions

Quark lists — Quark lists (lists of KEY=VALUE's)

GdaDataModelRow — Base implementation for other objects to implement the GdaDataModel interface based on the usage of

GdaThreader