On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:56:27AM -0000, Orton, Yves wrote:
> It would seem that its reasonable to expect the
> DSN thingee to be queryable so you can say:
>
> my %fields=DSN->driver_needs_fields('DBD::Sybase');
>
> And then find out which fields you need to ask for (and maybe even what
> regexes they should match to be considered valid :-) ( port=>/^\d+$/,
> server=>/^[\w.-]+$/, .... )
>
> Note im talking about a hypothetical module, I havent had time to review the
> actual proposed module yet. My point is just that functionality like what
> was described sure sounds useful to me.
I agree. But it's not as simple as a regexp since the values for some
items can influence what other options and values are valid.
I've often thought it would be nice to have some kind of interface
similar to ODBC's SQLBrowseConnect:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2v7luw/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2v7.doc/db2l0/sqll1402.htm
Tim.
