[Libreoffice] ODBC literal escapes in LibreOffice

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 06:26:40PM +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> Le 02/09/11 18:05, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit :

>> So, I wanted to check whether it is policy that SDBC drivers must
>> accept ODBC escapes in SQL strings, or whether there would be
>> interest in me gradually changing LibreOffice to *not* use
>> ODBC-specific escapes.

> How would you envisage the prepared statement working with the
> filter functionality currently available in forms, for example,
> where this transition from date literal is transparent for the user
> (because the query is generated on the fly) ?

Exactly: it is transparent for the user, because the query is
generated on the fly; in the example of a table, instead of the "on
the fly" query being generated as e.g. (con being the connection):

 stmt = con.createStatement();
 rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM tblName WHERE dtColumn = {D 2011-08-28}");

something like that would be done (where filterDate is the
::com::sun::star::util::Date containing the date to filter on):

 stmt = con.prepareStatement("SELECT * FROM tblName WHERE dtColumn = ?");
 stmt.setDate(1, filterDate);
 rs = stmt.executeQuery();

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 06:33:10PM +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote:

> Might this also have an impact on Basic macros, which currently have
> to convert Basic com.sun.star.util.Date used as a date variable into
> something that the XParameter setDate can understand because the two
> are not the same ?

No, that won't have an effect on the fact that Basic macros using the
prepared statement interface have to convert the Basic date type
(basically an integer, if I remember well) into a
com.sun.star.util.Date structure.

-- 
Lionel