[squeak-dev] Re: Now available: a database conectivity API and its MySQL implementation

Anindya Haldar anindya_haldar at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 29 14:40:16 UTC 2011


Thanks Andreas. The MySQL protocol is a native all-Smalltalk MySQL driver. There is no FFI or plugin associated with it. The driver implements the MySQL wire protocol on top of socket stream. 


Best,
Anindya



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From: Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>
To: Anindya Haldar <anindya_haldar at yahoo.com>; The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: Now available: a database conectivity API and its MySQL implementation

Very nice. Quick question: How are you accessing the MySQL db? Are you 
using a network connection or some FFI facilities? If you are using a 
network connection, we might have use for your project right away; our 
current FFI based ODBC implementation causes headaches when the calls 
take a long time (>1sec).

Cheers,
   - Andreas

On 9/29/2011 10:11, Anindya Haldar wrote:
> I am extremely pleased to offer to the community a generic Smalltalk API
> for database connectivity API, along with a MySQL implementation written
> from ground up. Think of JDBC and DBI like interfaces in other languages
> and environments, and this one offers abstract facilities like
> connection, prepared statement, resultset, row, metdata and so on for
> the application.
>
> The API implementation uses driver delegates, and insulates the
> applications from the driver specific interfaces. As of now, a MySQL
> implementation is available, with other databases engine supports in the
> future plans.
>
> The API supports server side prepared sta tements and cursor based fetch
> implemented in the MySQL driver.
>
> The implementation is currently available in 3 parts:
>
> 1) StdbCore project: This is primarily the API definitions and the
> delegation logic
> URL: http://www.squeaksource.com/StdbCore.html
>
> 2) StdbMysqlImpl project: This is the MySQL implementation of the
> StdbCore API
> URL: http://www.squeaksource.com/StdbMysqlImpl.html
>
> 3) StdbMysqlProtocol project: This is the underlying MySQL protocol
> driver, and used by the MySQL API implementation
> URL: http://www.squeaksource.com/StdbMysqlProtocol.html
>
> There is a package load ordering dependency (documented in the MySQL
> implementation project). Please load the core and the protocol driver
> packages first, before you load the implementation package.
>
> Combined, the packages has around 200 tests (most of them in the
> protocol driver and the API implementation) and are running green on
> Pharo 1.1.1 one click, Squeak 4.2 one click, Squeak 3.10 (with Seaside
> 2-8-573 dev image) under Mac OS X 10.5.8 with MySQL server 5.0.67.
>
> This was in the making for some time; and I feel it is time to share it
> with the community. I will continue to post more documentation and code
> snippets in the project page Wiki sections. For now, looking up the
> tests may be your best guide.
>
> Happy programming!
>
> Best,
> Anindya Haldar
>
>
>
>
>
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