Hi: I'm new to MetaL and wish to ask you guys something that has been puzzling me over the last two days. I'm using the lastest stable MySQL 5 release...
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Manuel Lemos
mallemos
Mar 7, 2007 7:40 pm
Hello, ... If you do not specify a text variable length, it will attempt to create a table with a TEXT field. TEXT fields are basically character LOBs, so they...
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manfred.schreck
Mar 20, 2007 5:48 pm
Hello, I am using Metabase for a while, and I am happy with it. Now I am in a situation, that I have to use a custom identifier. The scenario is that I use...
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Manuel Lemos
mallemos
Mar 21, 2007 2:25 am
Hello, ... I am a bit confused with your references to Metabase. Do you mean you have an application using Metabase and you want to integrate with something...
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manfred.schreck
Mar 21, 2007 8:17 am
... The ... existing ... login ... Metastorage? ... Hello Manuel, sorry I meant Metastorage. cheers, Manfred...
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Manuel Lemos
mallemos
Mar 22, 2007 12:44 am
Hello, ... Currently Metastorage does not support defining custom object identifier (OID) variables. For now, an implicit OID is assigned to automatic variable...
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mallemos
Jun 10, 2007 5:18 am
You have recently subscribed to receive email updates for 'Metastorage project progress' http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage-progress.xml This...
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mallemos
Jun 10, 2007 10:03 am
Add support to createobject forms for classes with variables of types boolean, integer, decimal, float. q ___ Source:...
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Manuel Lemos
mallemos
Sep 19, 2007 6:21 pm
Hello, A new version of Metastorage was released to introduce a new capability of creating copies of existing persistent objects. Other minor features and bug...
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Manuel Lemos
mallemos
Feb 16, 2008 1:48 am
Hello, I have not made many Metastorage releases recently but I made some developments in Metabase that provide flexibility to Metastorage generated...
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Miguel Oliveira
miguel@...
Feb 17, 2008 7:41 pm
Hello, I've started using metastorage and create my component to generate the db schema: <class> <name>users</name> .... <variable> <name>profile_id</name> ...
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Manuel Lemos
mallemos
Feb 18, 2008 4:22 am
Hello, ... Yes, I was trying to remember what was the exact reasoning to not make reference variables not null, but I am not sure. I know that some databases...
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Miguel Oliveira
miguel@...
Feb 21, 2008 2:31 pm
Hello, I was wondering how can i solve the creation of 2 objects with an 1- to-1 relationship. Using this example class: <class> <name>user</name> <variable> ...
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Manuel Lemos
mallemos
Feb 21, 2008 8:06 pm
Hello, ... Yes, you need to make those variables optional to be allowed to save the object without setting them to a reference object. Since the classes...
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Miguel Oliveira
miguel@...
Mar 13, 2008 12:28 pm
Hello, My application, metastorage-based, is growing every day, and the main persistent component is getting bigger. In order do organize code and data flow,...
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Manuel Lemos
mallemos
Mar 15, 2008 9:40 am
Hello, ... No, Metastorage generates different schema definitions for each component, but you can configure the schema installation classes to install all...
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Sergey Klenin
scleann@...
Apr 21, 2008 6:08 pm
Hello, Manuael and everybody, I have the question regarding how to set up classes relationship. I'm designing the system that must provide to end user the...
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Manuel Lemos
mallemos
Apr 21, 2008 10:41 pm
Hello, ... This is a bit confusing, not because of your definitions, but rather because you do not tell me what exactly what you want to do and you are not...
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Kelly Jones
kelly.terry.jones@...
May 24, 2008 9:34 pm
Are there tools to convert PHP/Perl/Python/etc to Metal? When I see: function addargs ($x,$y) {$z=$x+y; return $z;} I think (using brackets because some mail...
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Manuel Lemos
mallemos
May 28, 2008 7:13 am
Hello, ... AFAIK there are no tools for converting between languages. It is a possibility, but the MetaL project did not went into that direction. Nowadays,...
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nixanz
Sep 19, 2008 4:18 am
I'm new to Metastorage, so forgive me if I've overlooked something obvious. Anyhow, I can't get my persist function to work reliably. I've using the same...
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Manuel Lemos
mallemos
Sep 19, 2008 4:24 am
Hello, ... If the variable can be set to NULL, it means it is optional. Are you defining it as <optional>1</optional> ? The generated class should fail the...
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Nik Sands
nixanz
Sep 19, 2008 4:33 am
it is optional: ... <variable> <name>grams</name> <type>integer</type> <optional>1</optional> </variable> ... It is being assigned immediately before the...
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Manuel Lemos
mallemos
Sep 19, 2008 4:35 am
Hello, ... That is the problem. If it is empty, don't assign it or set it to null . -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Find and post PHP jobs ...
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Nik Sands
nixanz
Sep 19, 2008 4:48 am
I thought metastorage was supposed to set it to NULL when generating the SQL automatically? The debug output shows it as being a '?' in the prepared query, but...
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Nik Sands
nixanz
Sep 19, 2008 5:01 am
Sorry, my last email was probably not very clear. Let me try again... :-) The code immediately below fails to save (and gives the debug output shown below),...
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Manuel Lemos
mallemos
Sep 19, 2008 6:23 am
Hello, ... I think there is some confusion. An empty string is one thing. An undefined value is another thing. ... The above should be: if(strlen($grams)) ... ...
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Nik Sands
nixanz
Sep 19, 2008 7:25 am
Hi Manuel, Thanks for your help... Is metastorage NOT supposed to replace this with a NULL in the SQL in this case? Is metastorage SUPPOSED to produce invalid...
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Manuel Lemos
mallemos
Sep 19, 2008 7:47 am
Hello, ... I am not sure what you mean. The code generate by Metastorage sets the field to NULL if you set the respective optional variable to null or just not...
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Nik Sands
nixanz
Sep 19, 2008 9:39 am
but in the situation I showed in my last example, it produces invalid SQL. Shouldn't this be avoided, no matter what the value of the variable? Metastorage...
