Re: [boost] Interest in Database Template Library?

From: Greg Colvin (gcolvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-06-01 23:31:23

This is most certainly "on topic" for Boost.

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From: Corwin Joy <cjoy_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 8:06 PM
Subject: [boost] Interest in Database Template Library?

> Michael Gradman and myself have put together a library which abstracts
> database operations into an STL type interface.  The design that we have put
> together is a collection of input and output iterators to represent common
> operations such as SELECT (input), UPDATE, INSERT, DELTE (output) as well as
> containers which can be used to abstract entire tables.  We've had a number
> of our users suggest that we consider submitting this library to boost, and
> I believe it to be the case that what we have done would be 'boost-able' in
> that it is not too far away from the boost library requirements (licence,
> portability, design, etc.).  However,  we have been hesitant to submit this
> library as we felt it could be "off-topic" for the kinds of libraries that
> are mainly considered in this group.  So, I guess the question is, would
> there be significant interest in our trying to "boost" this library and
> submit it to the review process?  Below is an abstract and a link; thank you
> in advance for any comments.
> 
> Corwin Joy and Michael Gradman
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/corwinjoy/dtl/index.htm
> Manifesto:
> The goal of this library is to make ODBC recordsets look just like an STL
> container. As a user, you can move through our containers using standard STL
> iterators; and if you insert(), erase() or replace() records in our
> containers changes can be automatically committed to the database for you.
> The library's compliance with the STL iterator and container standards means
> you can plug our abstractions into a wide variety of STL algorithms for data
> storage, searching and manipulation. In addition, the C++ reflection
> mechanism used by our library to bind to database tables allows us to add
> generic indexing and lookup properties to our containers with no special
> code required from the end-user. Because our code takes full advantage of
> the template mechanism, our library adds minimal overhead compared with
> using raw ODBC calls to access a database.
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