Re: [Firebird-devel] C++ API?

[Jim S. <ja...@ne...>]

Peter Jacobi wrote:

>Hi Rolf,
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>>Since Firebird 1.5 is rewritten in C++, will there be a C++ API 
>>available in the nearest future?
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>IMHO there are not many reasons for jast anotherr C++ API.
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>It should be possible to use OTL (http://otl.sourceforge.net/) via ODBC, 
>and what's missing may be submitted as patches to the OTL project.
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I think the best C++ API is the IscDbc library in the Odbc driver.

IscDbc is a C++ binding to the Java JDBC interface.  It was designed to 
be as faithful as possible to the letter and the spirit of JDBC, a 
pragmatic but defensible encapsulation of object semantics to relational 
databases.

It is my intention to develop the IscDbc interface as the primary 
external and internal interfaces to Firebird.

The existing IscDbc component is a implemented as a client library, but 
the nature of the beast allows are re-implementation as a native 
interface with low overhead plumbing into the bowels of the beast.