Added filter-select-list (for clsql-helper:recency-mixin) as an

[clsql.git] / sql / generics.lisp

diff --git a/sql/generics.lisp b/sql/generics.lisp
index 0d1a4da4bcac85582e4a4bb24d568934bef07d97..c406a2b31de79224b941b89fd463f380f6fd7898 100644 (file)
--- a/sql/generics.lisp
+++ b/sql/generics.lisp
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ represented by SLOTS are initialised from the values of the
 supplied slots with other attributes having default
 values. Furthermore, OBJECT becomes associated with DATABASE."))
 
-(defgeneric update-records-from-instance (object &key database this-class)
+(defgeneric update-records-from-instance (object &key database)
   (:documentation
    "Using an instance of a View Class, OBJECT, update the table
 that stores its instance data. DATABASE defaults to
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ associated with DATABASE."))
 table of the database associated with OBJECT. If OBJECT is not
 yet associated with a database, an error is signalled."))
 
-(defgeneric update-instance-from-records (object &key database this-class)
+(defgeneric update-instance-from-records (object &key database)
   (:documentation
    "Updates the slot values of the View Class instance OBJECT
 using the attribute values of the appropriate table of DATABASE
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ effects. Methods specialised on particular View Classes can be
 used to specify any operations that need to be made on View
 Classes instances which have been updated in calls to SELECT."))
 
-(defgeneric update-slot-with-null (instance slotname slotdef)
+(defgeneric update-slot-with-null (instance slotdef)
   (:documentation "Called to update a slot when its column has a NULL
 value.  If nulls are allowed for the column, the slot's value will be
 nil, otherwise its value will be set to the result of calling
@@ -193,3 +193,14 @@ the arguments EXPR and DATABASE."))
 
 (defgeneric database-constraint-statement  (constraints database)
   )
+
+(defgeneric database-translate-constraint (constraint database)
+  (:documentation "Given a column constraint returns its
+database-specific name. For example, auto-increment constraints can
+have different names in different database engines."))
+
+(defgeneric filter-select-list ( view-class clsql-sys::select-list database)
+  (:documentation
+   "Gives fine grained control over sql to be executed and mapped to slots
+    called with a dummy instance (so that class precedence can be used)")
+  )