So...
The idea is to do something similar to a java System.exec(), which you
probably already know, but c-style.
The approach depends on which OS you're running.
Use something like system() on unix/linux, or CreateProcess() on
windows. These calls take a commandline in and gives you an exitvalue in
return.
system(2) executes the supplied commandline in a new shell by doing a
fork, exec and wait under the covers, while the CreateProcess() call
basically does the same thing internally windows-style. This is
identical to typing it on the commandline and hitting return.
Unix/Linux:
...
int retval = system("path/to/ij whateverscript.ij");
...
Windows:
...
int retval = CreateProcess("path/top/ij whateverscript.ij", ...);
...
Wrap in OS specific main() function with necessary includes and you have
your basic forkworld-example :)
You can also do fork, exec and wait yourself if you want more control.
There are variations available as well if you want even greater
flexibility or control - depending on OS.
OS programmers guides usually have a dedicated chapter or section on how
to do this. Manpages contain the a lot of information for unix/linux,
and MSDN gives you the details in case of Windows.
Needless to say as people do write books about this, there are some
caveats and gotchas. But we'll leave those to the authors.
Hopefully enough to get you going :)
HTH,
Thomas
Tony Winslow wrote:
I'm interested in that:
"fork a new process running ij".
I virtually know nothing about that topic.
Could you please give me some simple
"HelloWorld" example on that?
2007/6/14, Thomas Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
yarono,
If Tonys suggestion of looking at org.apache.derby.impl.tools.ij doesn't
give you what you need, then your last resort would probably be to fork
a new process running ij with a command script (that does what you
do at
the ij prompt today) to do your db creation / shutdown. Check the
exitvalue and/or parse the output from the process to deduce success or
failure the create/shutdown steps.
Cheers,
Thomas
yarono wrote:
> What I'm trying to do is to create DB's and shut them down - all
from my code
> in c.
>
> My current status is that I'm able to perform the above functions
(meaning
> create DB and shutdown) via the ij prompt, run my code to perform
table
> creation, insertions, etc.. The shutdown and creation of the db's
is done
> through the ij prompt, while the rest of my code is in c.
>
> I want the whole thing to be done in c.
>
>
> Thomas Nielsen - Sun Microsystems - Trondheim, Norway wrote:
>> hi yarono,
>>
>> What exactly do you want to do?
>> - fork a new process to run ij (with or without a SQL script)?
>> - execute SQL commands from C?
>>
>> If you are trying to fork a new process running ij, then please
refer to
>> a suitable OS programmers guide on how to do this.
>>
>> If you are trying to execute SQL in C, then you're looking for a
ODBC
>> driver. Derby does not come with a (free) ODBC driver, so your
options
>> are to buy a (DRDA capable) ODBC driver, or use a ODBC-JDBC bridge
>> driver with the Derby JDBC driver. Not aware of any free ODBC-JDBC
>> bridge drivers off the top of my head if free is what you are
looking for.
>>
>> Hope this helps :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Thomas
>>
>> yarono wrote:
>>> Is there a way to run the 'ij commands' in my code (written in
c), just
>>> as I
>>> execute SQL statements?
>> --
>> Thomas Nielsen
>>
>>
>
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