- NAME
- tdbc::mysql — TDBC-MYSQL bridge
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- CONNECTION OPTIONS
- -host hostname
- -port number
- -socket path
- -user name
- -passwd password
- -password password
- -database name
- -db name
- -interactive flag
- -ssl_ca string
- -ssl_capath string
- -ssl_cert string
- -ssl_cipher string
- -ssl_key string
- EXAMPLES
- ADDITIONAL CONNECTION METHODS
- $connection evaldirect sqlStatement
- SEE ALSO
- KEYWORDS
- COPYRIGHT
tdbc::mysql — TDBC-MYSQL bridge
package require tdbc::mysql 1.0
tdbc::mysql::connection create db ?-option value...?
tdbc::mysql::connection new ?-option value...?
tdbc::mysql::datasources ?-system|-user?
tdbc::mysql::drivers
tdbc::mysql::datasource command driverName ?keyword-value?...
The tdbc::mysql driver provides a database interface that conforms
to Tcl DataBase Connectivity (TDBC) and allows a Tcl script to connect
to a MySQL database.
Connection to an MYSQL database is established by invoking
tdbc::mysql::connection create, passing it the name to give the
database handle and a set of -option-value pairs. The available
options are enumerated under CONNECTION OPTIONS below.
As an alternative, tdbc::mysql::connection new may be used to create
a database connection with an automatically assigned name. The return value
from tdbc::mysql::connection new is the name that was chosen for the
connection handle.
The side effect of tdbc::mysql::connection create is to create a
new database connection.. See tdbc::connection(n) for the
details of how to use the connection to manipulate a database.
The tdbc::mysql::connection create object command supports the
-encoding, -isolation, -readonly and -timeout
options common to all TDBC drivers. The -encoding option will
always fail unless the encoding is utf-8; the database connection
always uses UTF-8 encoding to be able to transfer arbitrary Unicode
characters. The -readonly option must be 0, because
MySQL does not offer read-only connections.
In addition, the following options are recognized:
- -host hostname
-
Connects to the host specified by hostname. This option must be
set on the initial creation of the connection; it cannot be changed
after connecting. Default is to connect to the local host.
- -port number
-
Connects to a MySQL server listening on the port specified by number.
This option may not be changed after connecting. It is used only when
host is specified and is not localhost.
- -socket path
-
Connects to a MySQL server listening on the Unix socket or named
pipe specified by path . This option may not be changed after connecting.
It is used only when -host is not specified or is localhost.
- -user name
-
Presents name as the user name to the MySQL server. Default is the
current user ID.
- -passwd password
-
- -password password
-
These two options are synonymous. They present the given password as
the user's password to the MySQL server. Default is not to present a password.
- -database name
-
- -db name
-
These two options are synonymous. They present the given name as the
name of the default database to use in MySQL queries. If not specified,
the default database for the current user is used.
- -interactive flag
-
The flag value must be a Boolean value. If it is true (or
any equivalent), the default timeout is set for an interactive user,
otherwise, the default timeout is set for a batch user. This option
is meaningful only on initial connection. When using the configure
method on a MySQL connection use the -timeout option to set the
timeout desired.
- -ssl_ca string
-
- -ssl_capath string
-
- -ssl_cert string
-
- -ssl_cipher string
-
- -ssl_key string
-
These five options set the certificate authority, certificate authority
search path, SSL certificate, transfer cipher, and SSL key to the
given string arguments. These options may be specified only
on initial connection to a database, not in the configure method
of an existing connection. Default is not to use SSL.
tdbc::mysql::connection -user joe -passwd sesame -db joes_database
Connects to the MySQL server on the local host using the default
connection method, presenting user ID 'joe' and password 'sesame'.
Uses 'joes_database' as the default database name.
In addition to the usual methods on the tdbc::connection(n) object,
connections to a MySQL database support one additional method:
- $connection evaldirect sqlStatement
-
This method takes the given sqlStatement and interprets as
MySQL native SQL code and evaluates it without preparing it. The
statement may not contain variable substitutions. The result set
is returned as a list of lists, with each sublist being the list
of columns of a result row formatted as character strings. Note that
the string formatting is done by MySQL and not by Tcl, so details
like the appearance of floating point numbers may differ.
This command is not recommended for anything where the usual
prepare or preparecall methods work correctly. It is
provided so that data management language statements that are
not implemented in MySQL's prepared statement API, such as
CREATE DATABASE or CREATE PROCEDURE, can be executed.
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Copyright (c) 2009 by Kevin B. Kenny.