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This example shows how to use virtual data members to implement a persistent
class that employs the pimpl C++ idiom.
The example consists of the following files:
person.hxx
person.cxx
Header and source file implementing the 'person' persistent class that
uses the pimpl idiom.
person-odb.hxx
person-odb.ixx
person-odb.cxx
person.sql
The first three files contain the database support code and the last file
contains the database schema for the person.hxx header.
These files are generated by the ODB compiler from person.hxx using the
following command line:
odb -d <database> --generate-query --generate-schema person.hxx
Where <database> stands for the database system we are using, for example,
'mysql'.
database.hxx
Contains the create_database() function which instantiates the concrete
database class corresponding to the database system we are using.
driver.cxx
Driver for the example. It includes the person.hxx and person-odb.hxx
headers to gain access to the persistent class and its database support
code. It also includes database.hxx for the create_database() function
declaration.
In main() the driver first calls create_database() to obtain the database
instance. Then it executes a number of database transactions on the 'person'
objects.
To compile and link the example manually from the command line we can use
the following commands (using MySQL as an example; replace 'c++' with your
C++ compiler name):
c++ -c person.cxx
c++ -c person-odb.cxx
c++ -DDATABASE_MYSQL -c driver.cxx
c++ -o driver driver.o person.o person-odb.o -lodb-mysql -lodb
To run the example we may first need to create the database schema (for some
database systems, such as SQLite, the schema is embedded into the generated
code which makes this step unnecessary). Using MySQL as an example, this
can be achieved with the following command:
mysql --user=odb_test --database=odb_test < person.sql
Here we use 'odb_test' as the database login and also 'odb_test' as the
database name.
Once the database schema is ready, we can run the example (using MySQL as
the database):
./driver --user odb_test --database odb_test
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