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+;;;; -*- Mode: LISP; Syntax: ANSI-Common-Lisp; Base: 10 -*-
+;;;; *************************************************************************
+;;;; FILE IDENTIFICATION
+;;;;
+;;;; Name: generics.lisp
+;;;; Purpose: Generic function definitions for DB interfaces
+;;;; Author: Kevin M. Rosenberg
+;;;; Created: Apr 2004
+;;;;
+;;;; This file, part of CLSQL, is Copyright (c) 2004-2010 by Kevin M. Rosenberg
+;;;;
+;;;; CLSQL users are granted the rights to distribute and use this software
+;;;; as governed by the terms of the Lisp Lesser GNU Public License
+;;;; (http://opensource.franz.com/preamble.html), also known as the LLGPL.
+;;;; *************************************************************************
+
+(in-package #:clsql-sys)
+
+
+;; FDML
+(defgeneric choose-database-for-instance (object &optional database)
+ (:documentation "Used by the oodml functions to select which
+ database object to use. Chooses the database associated with the
+ object primarily, falls back to the database provided as an argument
+ or the *DEFAULT-DATABASE*."))
+
+(defgeneric execute-command (expression &key database)
+ (:documentation
+ "Executes the SQL command EXPRESSION, which may be an SQL
+expression or a string representing any SQL statement apart from
+a query, on the supplied DATABASE which defaults to
+*DEFAULT-DATABASE*."))
+
+
+(defgeneric query (query-expression &key database result-types flatp field-names)
+ (:documentation
+ "Executes the SQL query expression QUERY-EXPRESSION, which may
+be an SQL expression or a string, on the supplied DATABASE which
+defaults to *DEFAULT-DATABASE*. RESULT-TYPES is a list of symbols
+which specifies the lisp type for each field returned by
+QUERY-EXPRESSION. If RESULT-TYPES is nil all results are returned
+as strings whereas the default value of :auto means that the lisp
+types are automatically computed for each field. FIELD-NAMES is t
+by default which means that the second value returned is a list
+of strings representing the columns selected by
+QUERY-EXPRESSION. If FIELD-NAMES is nil, the list of column names
+is not returned as a second value. FLATP has a default value of
+nil which means that the results are returned as a list of
+lists. If FLATP is t and only one result is returned for each
+record selected by QUERY-EXPRESSION, the results are returned as
+elements of a list."))
+
+
+;; OODML
+
+(defgeneric update-record-from-slot (object slot &key database)
+ (:documentation
+ "Updates the value stored in the column represented by the
+slot, specified by the CLOS slot name SLOT, of View Class
+instance OBJECT. DATABASE defaults to *DEFAULT-DATABASE* and
+specifies the database in which the update is made only if OBJECT
+is not associated with a database. In this case, a record is
+created in DATABASE and the attribute represented by SLOT is
+initialised from the value of the supplied slots with other
+attributes having default values. Furthermore, OBJECT becomes
+associated with DATABASE."))
+
+(defgeneric update-record-from-slots (object slots &key database)
+ (:documentation
+ "Updates the values stored in the columns represented by the
+slots, specified by the CLOS slot names SLOTS, of View Class
+instance OBJECT. DATABASE defaults to *DEFAULT-DATABASE* and
+specifies the database in which the update is made only if OBJECT
+is not associated with a database. In this case, a record is
+created in the appropriate table of DATABASE and the attributes
+represented by SLOTS are initialised from the values of the
+supplied slots with other attributes having default
+values. Furthermore, OBJECT becomes associated with DATABASE."))
+
+(defgeneric update-records-from-instance (object &key database)
+ (:documentation
+ "Using an instance of a View Class, OBJECT, update the table
+that stores its instance data. DATABASE defaults to
+*DEFAULT-DATABASE* and specifies the database in which the update
+is made only if OBJECT is not associated with a database. In this
+case, a record is created in the appropriate table of DATABASE
+using values from the slot values of OBJECT, and OBJECT becomes
+associated with DATABASE."))
+
+(defgeneric delete-instance-records (object &key database)
+ (:documentation
+ "Deletes the records represented by OBJECT in the appropriate
+table of the database associated with OBJECT. If OBJECT is not
+yet associated with a database, an error is signalled."))
+
+(defgeneric update-instance-from-records (object &key database)
+ (:documentation
+ "Updates the slot values of the View Class instance OBJECT
+using the attribute values of the appropriate table of DATABASE
+which defaults to the database associated with OBJECT or, if
+OBJECT is not associated with a database, *DEFAULT-DATABASE*.
+Join slots are updated but instances of the class on which the
+join is made are not updated."))
+
+(defgeneric update-slot-from-record (object slot &key database)
+ (:documentation
+ "Updates the slot value, specified by the CLOS slot name SLOT,
+of the View Class instance OBJECT using the attribute values of
+the appropriate table of DATABASE which defaults to the database
+associated with OBJECT or, if OBJECT is not associated with a
+database, *DEFAULT-DATABASE*. Join slots are updated but
+instances of the class on which the join is made are not
+updated."))
+
+(defgeneric instance-refreshed (object)
+ (:documentation
+ "Provides a hook which is called within an object oriented
+call to SELECT with a non-nil value of REFRESH when the View
+Class instance OBJECT has been updated from the database. A
+method specialised on STANDARD-DB-OBJECT is provided which has no
+effects. Methods specialised on particular View Classes can be
+used to specify any operations that need to be made on View
+Classes instances which have been updated in calls to SELECT."))
+
+(defgeneric update-slot-with-null (instance slotdef)
+ (:documentation "Called to update a slot when its column has a NULL
+value. If nulls are allowed for the column, the slot's value will be
+nil, otherwise its value will be set to the result of calling
+DATABASE-NULL-VALUE on the type of the slot."))
+
+(defgeneric database-pkey-constraint (class database)
+ )
+(defgeneric %install-class (class database &key transactions)
+ )
+(defgeneric database-generate-column-definition (class slotdef database)
+ )
+(defgeneric update-slot-from-db (instance slotdef val)
+ )
+(defgeneric key-value-from-db (slotdef value database)
+ )
+(defgeneric get-slot-values-from-view (obj slotdeflist values)
+ )
+(defgeneric database-output-sql-as-type (type val database db-type)
+ )
+(defgeneric read-sql-value (val type database db-type)
+ )
+(defgeneric database-add-autoincrement-sequence (class database)
+ (:method (class database) nil)
+ (:documentation "If a database needs to add a sequence for its
+ autoincrement to work, this is where it should go. Default is
+ that it doesnt so just return nil"))
+(defgeneric database-remove-autoincrement-sequence (class database)
+ (:method (class database) nil)
+ (:documentation "If a database needs to add a sequence for its
+ autoincrement to work, this is where it should go. Default is
+ that it doesnt so just return nil"))
+(defgeneric auto-increment-sequence-name (class slotdef database)
+ (:documentation "The sequence name to create for this autoincremnt column on this class
+ if returns nil, there is no associated sequence "))
+
+(defmethod auto-increment-sequence-name :around (class slot database)
+ (when (auto-increment-column-p slot database)
+ (call-next-method)))
+
+(defgeneric database-last-auto-increment-id (database table column)
+ )
+
+
+
+;; Generation of SQL strings from lisp expressions
+
+(defgeneric output-sql (expr database)
+ (:documentation "Writes an SQL string appropriate for DATABASE
+ and corresponding to the lisp expression EXPR to
+ *SQL-STREAM*. The function SQL-OUTPUT is a top-level call for
+ generating SQL strings which initialises *SQL-STREAM*, calls
+ OUTPUT-SQL and reads the generated SQL string from
+ *SQL-STREAM*."))
+
+(defgeneric database-output-sql (expr database)
+ (:documentation "Returns an SQL string appropriate for DATABASE
+ and corresponding to the lisp expression
+ EXPR. DATABASE-OUTPUT-SQL is called by OUTPUT-SQL when no more
+ specific method exists for EXPR."))
+
+(defgeneric output-sql-hash-key (expr database)
+ (:documentation "Returns a list (or other object suitable for
+use as the key of an EQUAL hash table) which uniquely identifies
+the arguments EXPR and DATABASE."))
+
+(defgeneric collect-table-refs (sql)
+ )
+
+(defgeneric database-constraint-statement (constraints database)
+ )
+
+(defgeneric database-translate-constraint (constraint database)
+ (:documentation "Given a column constraint returns its
+database-specific name. For example, auto-increment constraints can
+have different names in different database engines."))
+
+(defgeneric filter-select-list ( view-class clsql-sys::select-list database)
+ (:documentation
+ "Gives fine grained control over sql to be executed and mapped to slots
+ called with a dummy instance (so that class precedence can be used)")
+ )
+
+(defgeneric view-classes-and-storable-slots (view-class &key to-database-p)
+ (:documentation "A method that collects all the classes and storable slots
+ that need to be read from or written to the database.
+ to-database-p should be T if we are writing this object to the database
+ and nil when we are reading this object from the database"))