[Qt-interest] SQL abstraction layer (like SQLAlchemy) for Qt4?

[Bill King]

On 10/20/2009 12:56 AM, ext Christopher Rasch-Olsen Raa wrote:
> On Monday 19 October 2009 16:39:27 Bastian Bense wrote:
>   
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> this might be a bit off-topic, but I was wondering if there is something
>> like SQLAlchemy (for Python, http://www.sqlalchemy.org/features.html) for
>> C++/Qt4.
>> Qt already offers a simple database abtraction layer (QSqlDatabase, etc.),
>> but those classes still require you to write SQL statements to control
>> queries.
>>
>> SQLAlchemy for instance provides an object-based interface to the database.
>> I'm sure something like that could be done using QObjects or at least a
>> similar class that resembles the tables and records as object instances.
>>
>> Any ideas? :)
>>
>>     
> I asked about this a while back and got a reply from Bill King saying that he 
> was going to do some research / planning for this.
>
> Never did hear anything more about this from Trolltech though. I had hope to 
> see some goodness showing up at the dev-blogs, but so far no luck.
>
> For reference:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.general/10260
>
>   
Still here, and there's still plans for ORM, it's just been pushed back,
as focus has been on stabilising the Qt Sql implementations for the 4.6
stream.
Hopefully we can get some forward momentum for 4.7, but, we shall see :)
QtSql has had some much need TLC, and a large amount of bugs have been
squished for the 4.6 release :)

-- 
Bill King, Software Engineer
Qt Development Frameworks, Nokia Pty Ltd
Brisbane Office

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