Combining Cocoa and MySQL

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Combining Cocoa and MySQL

Hey guys,

i was searching SO for help on this, but i can't seem to find a concrete solution. Is, or isn't it possible to connect to a mysql database with Cocoa? Because i'm working on a program that i'd like to extend to a database, but i sure as hell don't know how! I mean, that cocoa-mysql package is heavily outdated, and i dont even know what a C wrapper is!

Can someone please tell me how to do this, or atleast burst my bubble to tell me that it can't be done?

Thanks!

Since Core Data came out, I'm not surprised that other DB-wrapping Cocoa libraries are falling out of date. If you don't need to specifically wrap a MySQL DB, then I'd look at Core Data and its SQLite backend. It's available for both Mac OS and iPhone platforms.

Shaggy Frog 2010-05-17 17:44:45

Well, it's not that i don't need to wrap, i just don't know what wrapping a c mysql api means :PAnd, i do need MySQL and not SQLite, and i was looking at the apple docs about that Core Data, it's not really meant for MySQL right?thanks for the quick comment btw :)

BryCry 2010-05-17 18:02:05

Wrapping means to take an existing interface and expose it to the world using another interface. An example would be to take the existing MySQL C API and creating a Cocoa layer around it that clients use instead -- where the layer handles all the C-specific steps required to access MySQL, so your client never needs to know the C API exists.

Shaggy Frog 2010-05-17 18:58:05

Ok, but how do i 'wrap' such apis?

BryCry 2010-05-17 22:57:35

See my answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1319916/tips-on-wrapping-a-c-library-in-objective-c/1319934#1319934

Shaggy Frog 2010-05-17 23:08:17

BryCry: Write a library providing a Cocoa interface (probably consisting of classes) to manipulate a database. In the implementation of that library (those classes), call functions of the MySQL C API.

Peter Hosey 2010-05-18 04:13:15

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