Re: [GSoC][New Feature] Editable and Read-only Columns

Aditya, can you review this please?

Thanks.

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 8:01 PM Yosry Muhammad <yosrym93(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi, hackers !
>
> Please find attached a work-in-progress patch adding a new feature to the
> Query Tool on top of updatable result-sets.
>
> This patch allows individual columns of an updatable result-set to be
> editable or read-only. This allows for a wider variety of updatable
> result-sets, for example:
>
> - Result-sets with duplicated columns.
> - Result-sets with renamed columns (if a column is renamed to a primary
> key name, the real primary key can be correctly identified) .
> - Result-sets including columns that are not selected directly from a
> table (e.g concatenation of 2 columns or system columns).
>
> In the above cases, these columns would be read-only while other columns
> of the result-set are editable. Editable/Read-only columns are identified
> by icons and tooltips in the column header.
>
> This is still a work-in-progress, updates to tests and documentation is
> still due. Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback!
>
> Also, do you think the editable/read-only icons should apply in both
> View/Edit Data and Query Tool for consistency? or hidden from View/Edit
> Data as all columns are editable anyway?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> *Yosry Muhammad Yosry*
>
> Computer Engineering student,
> The Faculty of Engineering,
> Cairo University (2021).
> Class representative of CMP 2021.
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/yosrym93/
>

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