Re: [boost] Interest in an ODBC library?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-14 19:38:02

"Brock Peabody" <brock.peabody_at_[hidden]> writes:

> 2) With this done it's not too hard to write a non-intrusive DSEL for
> binding on top of it.  I wrote one that supports dependent tables,
> automatic mapping to STL containers, boost::optional, and common data
> types like boost::posix_time::ptime.  A simple example of the language
> might look like:
>
>    table("customer") [
>
>       *field("id")     = &customer::id,
>       field("name")    = &customer::name,
>       field("number")  = &customer::number,
>
>       table("tax_exempt")[
>
>          -field("customer"),
>          field("state_id")   = &tax_exempt_data::state_id
>       ]
>       = &customer::tax_exempt
>    ];
>

This feels like it has some overlap with the serialization library.
No?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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