Re: DBDI Status

Tim

Is there a particular reference implementation of java.sql(x) you're 
planning on running the java2perl on? A quick google shows a reference 
API but no obvious reference implementation.

Regards
Dave


Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 07:09:20PM +0100, Sentra Systems wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>     
>
> Hi Dave.
>
>   
>> Has anything happened with a Parrot JDBC implementation?
>> Is Parrot stable enough yet?
>> Has anyone mapped out the minimun subset of JDBC that would be required to 
>> get DBI working in Perl6?
>>     
>
> Here's the (current) plan...
>
> 1. Dust off java2perl6
>         http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?java2perl6
>         http://code.google.com/p/java2perl6/
>     and update it to generate valid current perl6 code.
>
> 2. Add a type aliasing mechanism (ie "for the Java URL type use a Perl
>     Str type") to java2perl6 so we don't have to implement loads of Java
>     types before we can get started.
>
> 3. Write some kind of very dumb "Hello World" skeleton JDBC driver,
>     as a proof of concept that uses the interfaces generated by java2perl
>
> 4. Refactor Simon Cozens's SQLite3 DBDI driver to use ('consume') the
>     generated JDBC interfaces.
>     http://dev.simon-cozens.org/6pan/browser/trunk/DBDI/DBDI/Driver/SQLite3.pm
>     That's not working right now, so here's a cached version:
>     http://google.com/search?q=cache:T8FN2WYvgm0J:dev.simon-cozens.org/6pan/browser/trunk/DBDI/DBDI/Driver/SQLite3.pm
>
> Making a move on this has been high on my list of pre-OSCON tasks
> but working on NYTProf has remained a higher priority (there are some
> great new features in the next release).
>
> If anyone wants to help out with 1 and 2, you'd be more than welcome!
> Send me your email address and I'll give you a commit bit.
>
> Tim.
>
>