Re: [gnome-db] GDA+Vala - Merging Request or Feedback

On 7 December 2011 00:46, Daniel Espinosa <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've reached a milestone on libgda-vala branch.
>
> a) An usable GObject used as a persisten DataBase object. Actually it
> takes a table and condition to search a row; you can modify, update
> and save. Is intended as base class for others.
>
> b) I've created a GObject that takes a GdaDataModel and allows to
> iterate using foreach instructions in Vala. Iterates per value and you
> can now the row and column this value come from. Its a concept, but
> you can filter and chop (a range of values) using Gee constructions
> and Vala.
>
> The branch creates a new library called libgdadata, builds GObject
> Introspection and VAPI bindings. Have Unit Tests.
>
> Could any give some feedback around this objects and may be some ideas
> or feature requests?
>
> I can create a GdaDataSelect derived object, written in pure Vala as
> an extension in order to make Vala programming a piece of cake. Even
> GDA can get advantage of Vala future for GObject based libraries,
> because much less code to write. Just an idea. I plan to add more
> features in libgdadata library as far as I can.
>
> All Autotools infrastructure is in place, then could be very easy to
> add new objects and test them. For now Vala is a soft dependency and
> libgdadata is built using --enable-vala-extensions=yes switch.
>
> I you agree, I can merge this branch as soon as approved.
>

Hi!

Sorry I took so long to reply (been very busy these last few days...)  I'm
no Vala expert so I can't give an opinion on the usefulness or if it's
correctlyy coded, however before merging to master, could you:
- correct the libgda/data/libgdadata-0.2.pc.in to include a usefull
description, and to change the "libgxml" name
- add some example code (to samples/)
- add some documentation on how to use the Vala extension (in doc/C/)

Also I've got gee-1.0 (on a Fedora 16) and not gee-0.8, and so, as it does
not compile, I can't test. Do you plan to switch to gee-1.0?

Thanks for all your work and involvement,

Vivien

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