[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 126624] Suggested database connection string parameters incorrect in URL entry dialog

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126624

--- Comment #10 from Alex Thurgood <iplaw67 at tuta.io> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #7)
> Can't we give a proper example like "127.0.0.1:8001/mydatabase"? And perhaps
> split the database name from the url. Ultimately it's also a documentation
> topic since help is missing.

The problem with the example you suggest is that it is specific to certain
kinds of database engine, i.e. it isn't generic enough to work with our current
connection string handling.

Ideally, the dialog itself would provide for separate fields for each part of
the connection string and an extra field for supplementary parameters (where
daisychaining of such connection string parameters is allowed), and would only
provide those fields that would correspond to the selected DB type. In such a
case, we could have example resource strings for each type of DB connection,
but we are talking about at least of tens of different DB engines (certainly
all of the main ones out there in use today). It seems to me that there is
currently no way to do this simply (from a UI perspective) without causing
frustration for the end user, which is why having an entirely generic comment
like Lionel suggests, or nothing at all, would be more appropriate. Our help
files have improved in this regard and do provide the connection strings for at
least some (certainly not all) of the DB connection types we support.

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