Ken

Shouldn't you have a time_t (unsigned long) for the
time return type (and a dbi_result_get_long or whatever
to extarct it)?

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Ken Ramsay wrote:

> Guys
>
> I am trying to get info from a mysql database that stores the date in a
> string format and return UTC format as well as a associated value. I can
> use the following select() statement OK to take care of that :
>             mysql> select UNIX_TIMESTAMP(<Timestamp string>),<data
> fields> from <table>;
>
> This gives all the values in the table and the UTC timeformat
>
> So, next I built libdbi was able to run a simple db connection to test
> it all worked. I then moved on to try the above and got my values OK but
> I get  '0''s for the UTC TIMESTAMP. Anyone any ideas why this doesn't
> work?
>
> Cheers
>
> Here's my src which compiles and runs OK but gives the partial output
> below.. Any ideas ( I have played with the printf statement already ;-)
> ?
>
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include </usr/local/include/dbi/dbi.h>
>
> int main() {
>     dbi_conn conn;
>     dbi_result result;
>     unsigned int updateLatency;
>     unsigned int time;
>     const char *name;
>
>     dbi_initialize(NULL);
>     conn = dbi_conn_new("mysql");
>
>     dbi_conn_set_option(conn, "host", "localhost");
>     dbi_conn_set_option(conn, "username", "sqluser");
>     dbi_conn_set_option(conn, "password", "");
>     dbi_conn_set_option(conn, "dbname", "test");
>     dbi_conn_set_option(conn, "encoding", "UTF-8");
>
>     if (dbi_conn_connect(conn) < 0) {
>       printf("Could not connect. Please check the option settings\n");
>     }
>     else {
>       result = dbi_conn_queryf(conn, "select
> UNIX_TIMESTAMP(HIST_Timestamp),HIST_Node,updateLatency from TABLE");
>
>       if (result) {
>         while (dbi_result_next_row(result)) {
>           name = dbi_result_get_string(result, "HIST_Node");
>           time = dbi_result_get_uint(result,
> "UNIX_TIMESTAMP(HIST_Timestamp)");
>           updateLatency = dbi_result_get_uint(result, "updateLatency");
>           printf("%s %d %d\n",name,updateLatency,time);
>         }
>         dbi_result_free(result);
>       }
>       dbi_conn_close(conn);
>     }
>
>     dbi_shutdown();
>
>     return 0;
> }
>
> Sample Output:
>     chimds05 34 0
>     chimds05 12 0
>     chimds05 13 0
>     chimds05 20 0
>     chimds05 10 0
>     chimds05 13 0
>
>
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