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Notes This version was tested in VASmalltalk 8.0 Beta against a local Oracle 10g installation. It requires that SeasideVASTPlatformApp be loaded (with its prereqs apps) to provide several utility methods Glorp uses; this has not been set up as a required map for ease of reuse with the later VA8 versions. It also requires #includesBehavior: (provided by the Refactoring Browser). GlorpVAPort: issues outstanding ==================== The ELC relational database framework has a similar but non-identical implementation of String>>like: Glorp replaces % with * and then uses match: (which uses # and ). ELC uses ? (for match's #) and If you need to use both frameworks, or are porting from one to the other, look at RelationExpression>>operationFor: and maybe map something else to SQL LIKE (and correct all the GlorpTests that use it). Timestamp extensions need rewriting for VA. Glorp does not need them (mostly) so a couple it does use are here but most are absent. StoreGlorp does need them. (Could we make Glorp Timestamp a subclass of my more compatible class instead of AbtTimestamp?) History ===== 0.3.71 VA8.NFR.7 and 6 - first VASmalltalk 8.0 Beta version - VW7BaseBackports dropped (remaining utility methods only needed for StoreGlorp code) - Does not need PhilemonKernel loaded: many methods (ifNotNil:ifNil:, print:, Number>>asNumber, etc.) are now in the base or in SeasideVASTPlatformApp; those not in Philemon are dropped from here. Philemon.NFR.5 and 4 - Collection and Dictionary postCopy added. VA Dictionary copy only shallowCopies and that means the associations are reused identically, so resetting a value changes both copy and original, almost always what you don't want. - asTimstamp added. Philemon.NFR.3 - added some AbtTimestamp protocol and more recent protocol on Object made necessary by ObjectStudio oddities. Some methods added to Block, ready also to be added to BlockContextTemplate as tests reveal the need. Philemon.NFR.2 - Added missing methods: Object>>glorpAllSubclasses is needed because ObjectStudio's allSubclasses returns symbols. Check whether this can be dropped in ObjectStudio 8. - Dropped conflicting extensions: Collection>>#glorpAddAll: and #glorpAddAllToDictionary: are provided by GlorpExtensions 0.3.178. It looks like this method is called only on collections of associations in VW; the code for Dictionary is missing from VW7 and my VW3 and without it the method's comment is definitely untrue; calling it on a KeyedCollection falls over without this map's extension. It may be that the polymorphism, unused in VW, appears in other dialects where a dictionary is used in some context where VW uses a collection of associations. This maps provision of #glorpAddAll: on Dictionary's superclass KeyedCollection may be a dialect requirement (other KeyedCollection used where Dictionary is used in VW) or prompted by a fix of the missing #glorpAddAllToDictionary: implementor which has been located on KeyedCollection. - Added EqualOnContentReadStream, required by FirebirdPlatform>>#convertBlobData:for: (no Firebird or InterBase interface for VA that I know of so not very important. Dropped extensions supplied by RB, Philemon, NbvBase or etc. Number>>#asNumber is provided by VW7BaseBackports or by NbvBase Behavior>>#includesBehavior: is provided by RBEnvironmentsVAApp. SequenceableCollection>>#writeStream is provided by PhilemonKernelExtensions. SequenceableCollection>>#readStream is provided by PhilemonKernelExtensions. WriteStream>>#print: is provided by PhilemonKernelExtensions. AbtTimestamp>>#asTime is provided by InvoicingExtensions. Number>>#asDouble is no longer required: the Dialect class now calls asFloat in VA. See changes to coerceToDoublePrecisionFloat:. - Loading produces the following 'Defined global * in unmanaged namespace' warnings: MessageArchiver while loading BlockContextTemplate>>asGlorpExpressionOn: BaseExpression while loading BlockContextTemplate>>asGlorpExpression AddingWriteStream while loading AdditiveSequenceableCollection>>writeStream All these are then fixed as post-reqs are loaded.
Comment Holds extension methods required by Glorp whose VA implementations must differ from those of other dialects.

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