On 8/31/11 9:44 AM, Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Paul McNett wrote:
>
>> >  I think your points are reasonable. Dabo should define which keys are 
>> > available for a
>> >  given backend. I agree that the "extra stuff" key doesn't belong in the 
>> > XML or to
>> >  display to the user in CxnEditor, however I think there should be a way 
>> > to get
>> >  something working in code if we haven't yet implemented a valid key in 
>> > Dabo.
>       True, but the entire connection mechanism is different: we can't use 
> the dConnectInfo/dConnection classes without some major changes, as we don't 
> have any support for connection strings. Those classes are predicated on 
> dbapi-style connections, and the ODBC classes will require some additional 
> work to be able to recognize ODBC-type backends and craft the appropriate 
> connection string instead of setting attributes from the keys.

Yes, dConnectInfo/dConnection would need to be reworked.

Paul


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