[fdo-users] Provider Properties Details Wish

[Dan Stoica]

Hi,

The info you need is available through the connection object:

       FdoPtr<FdoIConnectionInfo> connInfo = mConnection->GetConnectionInfo();

Where FdoIConnectionInfo has this method:

    /// \brief
    /// Returns the provider type. A provider can be a file-based, database-based or
    /// web-based provider. The valid values the function may return are defined in
    /// the enumeration FdoProviderDatastoreType. The enumeration includes the following
    /// values: FdoProviderDatastoreType_Unknown, FdoProviderDatastoreType_File,
    /// FdoProviderDatastoreType_DatabaseServer, FdoProviderDatastoreType_WebServer.
    ///
    /// \return
    /// Returns the provider data store type.
    ///
    FDO_API virtual FdoProviderDatastoreType GetProviderDatastoreType() = 0;

Then with this you can dig further for detailed info:

FdoPtr<FdoIConnectionPropertyDictionary> connProps = connInfo->GetConnectionProperties();


-----Original Message-----
From: fdo-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:fdo-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Crispin_at_1Spatial
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:37 AM
To: fdo-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [fdo-users] Provider Properties Details Wish


Hi,

The FDO provider classes have methods that enable the auto generation of the
user interfaces that create a FDO connection. However there is some
information the providers should provide but don’t / could.

For instance, it is not possible to find out if a string parameter
represents a file name, or a password. So the auto generated user interface
code cannot instantiate the file open panel, or anonymize a password field.

I assume this seemingly simple change would require a fairly major RFC and
support by all the providers.
If there are alternative workarounds to this I would be glad to hear...

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