This commit refactors vast parts of the sqlitetypes.h interface. Its
main goals are: less code, easier code, a more modern interface, reduced
likelihood for strange errors and more flexibility for future
extensions.
The main reason why the sqlitetypes.h functions were working so well in
DB4S was not because they were that stable but because they were
extremely interlinked with the rest of the code. This is fine because we
do not plan to ship them as a separate library. But it makes it hard to
find the obvious spot to fix an issue or to put a new function. It can
always be done in the sqlitetypes function or in the rest of the DB4S
code because it is just not clear what the interface between the two
should look like. This is supposed to be improved by this commit. One
main thing here is to make ownership of objects a bit clearer.
In theory the new code should be faster too but that difference will be
neglectable from a user POV.
This commit also fixes a hidden bug which caused all table constraints
to be removed in the Edit Table dialog when a single field was removed
from the table.
This is all still WIP and more work is needed to be done here.
This improves commit 44eb2d4f99 by
allowing to choose tables from other schemata than "main" in the foreign
key editor in the Edit Table dialog. This still isn't perfect as only
tables from the schema of the current table should be shown but with
some care it should work for all use cases.
This adds initial basic support for handling different database schemata
at once to the backend code. This is still far from working properly but
shouldn't break much either - mostly because it's not really used yet in
the user interface code.
This finally gets rid of the DBBrowserObject class entirely and moves
all its functionality to the newer classes in the sqlb namespace.
I'm still not entirely happy with this but at least things should be a
little more consistent now.
This changes the class structure in the sqlb namespace as well as the
DBBrowserObject class. The rest of the commit are changes that are
required by the modifications in sqlb and DBBrowserObject.
The idea behind this refactoring is this: we currently have the
DBBrowserObject class which holds some basic information about the
database object (name, type, SQL string, etc.). It also contains a
sqlb::Table and a sqlb::Index object. Those are used if the type of
the object is table or index and they contain a whole lot more
information on the object than the DBBrowserObject class, including the
name, the type, the SQL string, etc.
So we have a duplication here. There are two class structures for
storing the same information. This has historic reasons but other than
that there is no point in keeping it this way. With this commit I start
the work of consolidating the sqlb classes in order to get rid of the
DBBrowserObject class entirely.
This commit only starts this task, it doesn't finish it. This is why it
is a little messy here and there, but then again the old structure was a
little messy, too. We will need at least a very basic trigger and view
parser before finishing this is even possible. When this is done, I hope
the ode will be much easier to read and understand. But even in the
current state there already is some progress: we save a little bit of
memory, don't copy big objects all the time anymore, and replace a lot
of unnecessary string comparisons with integer comparisons.
