DB components - Vendor stopped the product
Hi, Again a question, I guess this will be the last time I will bug this forum for a while :-) In our Delphi 7 application, we used FIBPlus components throughout the whole application to connect to our firebird database. Now the vendor Devrace is death and it's a nightmare to replace the components. I've found somewhere a unofficial download for XE5, but of course this is just temporary. I have to replace all of the components and they are really everywhere. So it's a typical maintenance nightmare. So I'm wondering what is the best practice to avoid another such scenario in the future? Is it better to create a wrapper class, let's say a TComponent class with the query component hidden inside, like a black box ? And expose a "Dataset" property ? This way it's possible to just change the implementation of the dataset inside without the outside world knowing what component is exactly used. Or are there better ideas ? Thanks a lot, Best regards, Nico
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Nico Callewaert wrote: > Hi, > > Again a question, I guess this will be the last time I will bug this > forum for a while :-) > > In our Delphi 7 application, we used FIBPlus components throughout > the whole application to connect to our firebird database. Now the > vendor Devrace is death and it's a nightmare to replace the > components. I've found somewhere a unofficial download for XE5, but > of course this is just temporary. I have to replace all of the > components and they are really everywhere. So it's a typical > maintenance nightmare. > > So I'm wondering what is the best practice to avoid another such > scenario in the future? Is it better to create a wrapper class, let's > say a TComponent class with the query component hidden inside, like a > black box ? And expose a "Dataset" property ? This way it's possible > to just change the implementation of the dataset inside without the > outside world knowing what component is exactly used. Or are there > better ideas ? Most 3rd-party data access components descend from the base TDataset and TQuery components, so you already have a generic "wrapper" class. The main problem is the design-time behaviour. You can reduce the problem by not dropping dataset and query components on each form that is using them, instead use a central datamodule to hold the data access components. The forms only have TDatasources wired to the data-aware components, to which you attach the appropriate dataset from the datamodule at run-time, in the form constructor. But this way of working looses the ability to see live data at design-time, and it still will add the vendor specific units to each form's uses clause, since the datamodule contains the vendor components in its published section. A way to regain the design-time support would be to use a kind of internal client server design. The datamodule exposes only TClientDatasets to the forms, to which it internally connects the vendor specific datasets. The only way to avoid adding the vendor units to each form's uses clause is to not drop the components on the datamodule at design-time either, but to create and configure them in code and type the exported fields or properties as the generic TDataset and TQuery instead of as the vendor components. This way you can collect the vendor-dependent parts in one place and keep all the vendor specific stuff inside the data modules implementation section, but you loose practically all advantages of the design-time support. But those are overrated anyway, IMO <g>. If you go this way you have already made one important step into the direction of a proper separation of data access and data display layers. which the classical RAD design tends to mix up hopelessly. The next step is to bury all the data access inside an object persistence manager, forget about datasets, and work with lists of objects instead. But that requires a completely different design for the application and is usually impractical to retrofit to an existing RAD application. -- Peter Below (TeamB)
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Peter
8/4/2015 7:06:46 AM
Please check www.devart.com I think their components have specific wizards that can convert from FIBPlus to their components. -Rael
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Rael
8/4/2015 4:35:51 PM
Hi, Thanks Peter for the reply. I followed your advice of not dropping componets directly on the datamodules or forms anymore. That way, the vendor units are removed from the source files. ClientDatasets are way to slow for large datasets but seem a nice way to be database independent. @Rael. Yes I'm using now the DevArt components, but just scary to use the wizard to transform your whole application at once :-) Thanks and best regards ! Nico
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8/10/2015 8:20:44 AM
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