tkgnats patch to work with GNATS4

tkgnats patch to work with GNATS4

[Michael Richardson]

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  http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/tmp/tkgnats4/

  By no means is this a complete patch.
  Most of the queries do not work properly yet. 

  BUT, I can connect to a database and sort things into appropriate categories.
  Of course, submission of new PRs still goes through email.

  For the "LIST classes" problem, I realized that I should use "FVLD" command
to get the list. (I did the same for "state", even though "LIST states" was
working fine)

  I don't know what the best way to deal with the descriptions of each yet.
There are obvious structural issues - the TkGnats(ClassesFile) etc. stuff
really should be a more clear associative array rather than a copy of the
file.

  Probably there should be a better way to turn on/off debugging than keying
off userids. 

  Most certainly this version won't talk via localhost at all.

  Also, rather than storing the query types in the dbconfig, why not have
that stuff simply uploaded by QFMT or something? Unless we are going to
have gnatsd, etc. compile the dbconfig file, the processing time would be the 
same, and then one can keep the query formats with the clients. Also, is
there a solution to fields which have seperator characters in them?

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Re: tkgnats patch to work with GNATS4

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 22:43 18.11.2001 -0500, Michael Richardson wrote:
>   Also, rather than storing the query types in the dbconfig, why not have
>that stuff simply uploaded by QFMT or something? Unless we are going to
>have gnatsd, etc. compile the dbconfig file, the processing time would be the
>same, and then one can keep the query formats with the clients. Also, is
>there a solution to fields which have seperator characters in them?

First of all, let me say a big thank you for working on a TkGnats port.

Query expressions can indeed be uploaded by QFMT. The format strings are 
exactly the same as those that can be given to the query-pr tool. Quoting 
page 82 of the GNATS 4 manual:

QFMT query format
Use the specified query format to format the output of the QUER command. 
The query format may be either the name of a query format known to the 
server, or an actual query format. See "Formatting query-pr output", page 25.

I guess the main reason why the dbconfig file contains a few predefined 
query formats is in order to make query-pr easier to use. Otherwise, one 
would have to provide a complete query format specification on each 
invocation of query-pr.

Yngve Svendsen
GNATS 4 doc guy


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