FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, James K. Lowden wrote:

> As I understand it, TDSSOCKET::tds_ctx should point to a TDSCONTEXT, so if
> you pass a TDSSOCKET, you don't have to pass its TDSCONTEXT.  
> 
> I know, dbconvert() may be called with a NULL DBPROCESS*, and hence won't
> have a socket or a context, and a context is really handy to
> tds_client_msg(), because among other things it has a pointer to the
> user-defined error message handler.  What dbconvert will have to do is
> make stuff up.  It will have to construct a faux TDSSOCKET, gather the
> default TDSCONTEXT from global template created in dbinit(), and call
> tds_convert() with that.  

Just a pendantic point, TDSSOCKET * passed to tds_client_msg can be NULL, 
so there is no need to dummy up anything. The subconverters can similarly 
take a TDSCONTEXT * instead of TDSSOCKET.  This is consistant with how 
OpenClient operates.

Brian