[fpc-pascal]SQLite and NULL Strings...

[James Mills]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 03:39:36PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, James Mills wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 09:59:17AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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> > >
> > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, James Mills wrote:
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> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > This is a very weird behaviour I've found of either SQLite, or the Unit.
> > > > I'm not sure... I have been discussing this same problem on the SQLite
> > > > mailing list but without success there, so perhaps someone here might
> > > > know...
> > > >
> > > > I have attached a test database, which contains 1 database entry, null
> > > > strings are inserted using NULL... Check the database schema yourself.
> > > >
> > > > The problem therein lies in the fact that test3.pas returns "" for the
> > > > query: SELECT channelNotice FROM channels WHERE channel LIKE '#ProLogiTech';
> > > > It should return a null string as it does in test2.pas and in the sqlite
> > > > shell program.
> > >
> > > The problem is that an implicity conversion from Nil to empty string is
> > > done. You cannot solve this as long as stringlists are used to contain
> > > the data. (ok, you could set 'Null' as the string, but that is sloppy)
> > >
> > > You'd need to have (as a minimum) an array of TField records:
> > >   TField = Record
> > >     IsNull : Boolean;
> > >     Value : String;
> > >   end;
> > >
> > > But this will require major changes, so I suggest trying to find or
> > > implement a TDataset descendent for SQLIte, this will solve most of
> > > your problems at once.
> >
> > Where might I find such a descendent that using SQLite ? I'm not quite
> > sure what I'm looking for here... An initial search on google provides
> > some delphi units that are probably not what I'm looking for.
> 
> On the contrary, on Torry's pages there are some units that do exactly
> what I described.

Not having much luck with Torry's pages I'm afraid. However I've looked
at the FCL source, there is a mysqldb.pp in the db directory... Couldn't
that be used for sqlite (obviously with changes) ?

cheers
James

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> Michael.
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