Re: DBDI Status

Many thanks Dave. Applied!

Tim.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:45:46PM +0100, Sentra Systems wrote:
> Tim
>
> Attached is a modified copy of the Generator::Std that emits current perl6. 
> It's been amended to add the correct sigils and 'use' statements. Do you 
> want to give it a try and see if it does what you want?
>
> :)
> Dave
>
>
> Tim Bunce wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:08:17PM +0100, Sentra Systems wrote:
>>   
>>> 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.
>>>     
>>
>> Any implementation that has the classes will do.  java2perl6 is only
>> concerned with the class interfaces.  It just runs javap on the class
>> you give it, parses the class and interfaces definitions it outputs, and
>> writes corresponding perl6 clasess and roles definitions.
>>
>> Try running
>>
>>     java2perl6 --outdir jdbc --recurse --nest java.sql.Connection
>>
>> I've just checked in a file I had on my disk that lists all the
>> java.sql and javax.sql classess, so you can run
>>
>>     java2perl6 --outdir jdbc --recurse --nest $(cat jdbc_classes.txt)
>>
>> Tim.
>>
>>   
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>
>>   
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