KexiDBDesign:

KexiDB 2.0 Design

KexiDB 2.0 is the upcoming iteration of KexiDB for KDE4, that makes use of Qt4.

Table of Contents    Main Goals      Multithreading      Multiple Connections Support    Simplify the API      Connection Class      Make classes implicity shared

Main Goals ^ toc

Multithreading

Problem: Data processing can be time consuming. Connections can be slow. For beter user's experience, multithreaded processing and GUI should be used.

Ideas: reuse Thread Weaver. Links: 1, 2.

Multiple Connections Support

Problem: Real live db apps equire multiple connections to be made concurrently. Ideas:

1. Allow to define multiple KexiDB-compatible connections
2. Allow to define links to native databases
3. Multithreading will help in this

Simplify the API ^ toc

Connection Class

Problem: current Connection class is huge. Split it to orthogonal classes.

Make classes implicity shared

Problem: currently only Transaction and DriverManager classes are implicity shared. Remember about object's live time (notification about schema changes will be still needed).