2008/9/19 Aleksander Morgado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all, > > in your last version you removed > gda_data_model_get_value_at_column(). > > It was an handy function to retrieve a value from a column name, > which > > is also mentioned here > > > http://library.gnome.org/devel/libgda-4.0/unstable/ch07s06.html#id2552536. > > > > I cannot find a replacement for it, may you please indicate me what I > > should use? > > > > > > I removed it because I don't want to encourage people using column names > > as they are not reliable (depends a lot on the database's native API): I > > prefer people to use column numbers. Also the replacement is fairly easy: > > > > gda_data_model_get_value_at (model, > gda_data_model_get_column_index(model, "mycol"), row, &error); > > > > That function could have been left in the API and marked as "deprecated" > or something.
The V4 version is supposed to break the API with previous versions and as such there should not be any function marked as deprecated. > > IMHO, I don't think that removing functions from the API in each new > release is a good approach, even if there is a good reason for that. It > will break lots of compilations out there. I totally agree, and this will be the rule for future versions based on the V4 ABI. Vivien
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