[Building Sakai] Sakai BasicSQLService - Can we add dbUpdate() Methods?

[Steve Swinsburg]

I agree, use Spring JDBC if you want to manage your own SQL statements. It handles the rest.

cheers,
Steve


On 20/07/2011, at 3:26 AM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:

> SpringJDBC handles this very nicely. I would say it is better to just use that.
> http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/api/org/springframework/jdbc/core/JdbcTemplate.html#update(java.lang.String)
> 
> Personally, I would to see us moving away from maintaining our own
> ORM/DB-mapping thing in the longer run (where feasible anyway).
> 
> -AZ
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:06 PM, csev <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
>> Sakai's BasicSQL Service is missing the ability to handle UPDATE statements.  It contains a sequence methods:
>> 
>> dbRead() - Returns a record set
>> dbWrite() - Returns true/false based on success of the SQL statement
>> dbInsert() - Similar to dbWrite - but returns the generated auto-increment key.
>> 
>> Generally UPDATE statements are done with dbWrite() - it returns a true/false indicating if it worked or failed.
>> 
>> Sometimes UPDATE semantics need to know the number of records affected in order to know if the UPDATE accomplished the desired results.
>> 
>> As best I can tell, there is no way to accomplish this using the current BasisSQLService.
>> 
>> I would like to add dbUpdate() methods that are like dbWrite except that they return an integer number of records affected rather than a true/false return.
>> 
>> Thoughts / comments / redirects?
>> 
>> /Chuck
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