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Table of Contents
- Foreword about abstraction
- HOWTO for common tasks
- Open a connection
- Define a data source (DSN)
- Execute a SELECT command
- Modify the result of 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
- Update the meta data about a table
- Validate a DML statement
- Control value's assignment to various objects
- Add your own data to a GdaMetaStore
- 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 grouped together.
- GdaHolder — Container for a single GValue
- GdaSet — Container for several values
- 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()
- 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
- A single Value — Assorted functions for dealing with GValue values.
- Custom data validation
- Advanced GdaDataSelect usage
- Blobs — Binary data and BLOBs handling
- GdaDataModel — Basic data model class
- GdaDataSelect — Data models returned by the execution of a SELECT statement
- 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.
- GdaDataModelArray's rows — Row for a GdaDataModelArray object
- 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
- Data conversions
- GdaDataHandler — Interface which provides data handling (conversions) 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
- GdaMetaStore — Dictionary object
- GdaMetaStruct — In memory representation of some database objects
- Data definition (DDL) queries
- GdaServerOperation — Handles any DDL query in an abstract way
- GdaServerOperation: individual nodes — Getting information about parts (nodes) composing a path
- GdaServerOperation: sequences — Manipulating sequences
- Miscellaneous
- Utility functions
- Logging — Log functions
- GdaMutex — Recursive mutex implementation
- GdaLockable — Interface for locking objects in a multi threaded environment
- Attributes manager — Manager for lists of attributes
The following sections describe the API available for GDA applications.