Re: Code pointers for replace HSQLDB for Firebird

Hi Lionel!


2013/3/21 Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 08:26:42AM +0100, David Ostrovsky wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 22:44 -0300, Marcos Souza wrote:
> > > Hi guys!
> > >
> > >
> > > As suggested by Cecric and Muthu, I'm here to ask some code pointers
> > > to work in the HSQLDB replacement for Firebird.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm reading https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51781 from
> > > Lionel, and trying to understand what needs to be done to achieve
> > > this, but some code pointers are better!
>
> > To be frankly i would divide that task in 2:
> > 1. create native connectivity driver for Firebird.
> > 2. default to Firebird driver.
>
> I'd add another step between 1 and 2:
>
> 1.5: make Firebird embedded in LibreOffice
>      subtasks:
>        a) redirect Firebird "to disk" writes to our internal ZIP file
>           structure; see how it is done for HSQLDB in
>
>           connectivity/com/sun/star/sdbcx/comp/hsqldb/*.java
>           connectivity/source/drivers/hsqldb/StorageFileAccess.cxx
>           connectivity/source/drivers/hsqldb/StorageNativeInputStream.cxx
>           connectivity/source/drivers/hsqldb/StorageNativeOutputStream.cxx
>
>           if that's not possible, write to some temporary file and
>           copy that into our internal zip file structure. Can we do
>           something intelligent based on mmapped files shared between
>           process or some such on each platform?
>
>        b) create sdbc scheme sdbc:embedded:firebird and have it
>           recognised; "git grep -i embedded|grep -i hsql" will give
>           you code pointers.
Thanks for all these code pointers! I will read them and after I will ask
again for some information!



> --
> Lionel



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