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+/***************************************************************************
+ * kexidbdriver.h
+ * This file is part of the KDE project
+ * copyright (C)2004-2005 by Sebastian Sauer (mail@dipe.org)
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ * Library General Public License for more details.
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
+ * along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
+ * the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+ * Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+#ifndef KROSS_KEXIDB_KEXIDBDRIVER_H
+#define KROSS_KEXIDB_KEXIDBDRIVER_H
+
+#include <qstring.h>
+#include <qvaluelist.h>
+//#include <qguardedptr.h>
+
+#include <api/object.h>
+#include <api/variant.h>
+#include <api/list.h>
+#include <api/class.h>
+
+#include <kexidb/driver.h>
+
+#include "kexidbconnection.h"
+#include "kexidbconnectiondata.h"
+
+namespace Kross { namespace KexiDB {
+
+ /**
+ * Drivers are the implementations Kexi uses to access the
+ * driver-backends.
+ *
+ * Example (in Python) ;
+ * @code
+ * # Import the kexidb module.
+ * import krosskexidb
+ * # Get the drivermanager.
+ * drivermanager = krosskexidb.DriverManager()
+ * # Create the driver now.
+ * driver = drivermanager.driver("SQLite3")
+ * # Check if the driver is valid.
+ * if not driver.isValid(): raise "Invalid driver"
+ * # Create a connectiondata object.
+ * connectiondata = drivermanager.createConnectionData()
+ * # Fill the new connectiondata object with what we need to connect.
+ * connectiondata.setFileName("/home/user/kexisqlite3file.kexi")
+ * # Print the list of connections before.
+ * print driver.connectionsList()
+ * # Create the connection now.
+ * connection = driver.createConnection(connectiondata)
+ * # Print the list of connections again. This includes our just created connection now.
+ * print driver.connectionsList()
+ * @endcode
+ */
+ class KexiDBDriver : public Kross::Api::Class<KexiDBDriver>
+ {
+ public:
+ KexiDBDriver(::KexiDB::Driver* driver);
+ virtual ~KexiDBDriver();
+ virtual const QString getClassName() const;
+
+ private:
+
+ /** Return true if this driver is valid else false. */
+ bool isValid();
+ /** The drivers major versionnumber. */
+ int versionMajor();
+ /** The drivers minor versionnumber. */
+ int versionMinor();
+ /** Driver-specific SQL string escaping. For example the " or ' char may
+ need to be escaped for values used within SQL-statements. */
+ QString escapeString(const QString& s);
+ /** Returns true if this driver is file-based. */
+ bool isFileDriver();
+ /** Return a name of MIME type of files handled by this driver if it is a
+ file-based database's driver otherwise returns null string. */
+ QString fileDBDriverMimeType();
+ /** Returns true if the passed string is a system object's name, eg. name
+ of build-in system table that cannot be used or created by a user. */
+ bool isSystemObjectName(const QString& name);
+ /** Returns true if the passed string is a system database's name, eg. name
+ of build-in, system database that cannot be used or created by a user. */
+ bool isSystemDatabaseName(const QString& name);
+ /** Returns true if the passed string is a system field's name, build-in
+ system field that cannot be used or created by a user. */
+ bool isSystemFieldName(const QString& name);
+ /** The as second argument passed string got escaped to be usable within
+ a SQL-statement and those escaped string got returned by the method.
+ The first argument defines the fieldtype to what we should escape the
+ second argument to. */
+ QString valueToSQL(const QString& fieldtype, const QVariant& value);
+ /** Create a new KexiDBConnection object and return it. */
+ KexiDBConnection* createConnection(KexiDBConnectionData* data);
+ /** Return a list of KexiDBConnection objects. */
+ QPtrList< ::KexiDB::Connection > connectionsList();
+
+ private:
+ ::KexiDB::Driver* m_driver;
+ };
+
+}}
+
+#endif
+