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FBINTF Change Log  version                   (1.1-4) Wed, 26 Dec 2018 18:20:35 +0000

This is rc2 for 1.1.4

1. Fix a problem with the SQL parameter parser that failed to recognise parameters
   where the second character of the parameter name is a numeric.

2. New method for IAttachment: procedure getFBVersion(version: TStrings);
   This returns the isc_version connection information as one or more lines.
   This is the same information as returned by isql with the -z option.


FBINTF Change Log  version                  (1.1-3) Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:28:10 +0000

1. DARWIN only syntax error: fix missing semi-colon in TFBClientAPI.LoadIBLibrary

2. Restrict IsMultiThread check to Unix only for compatibility with
   https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30535

3. New SQL Tokeniser added to IBUtils. This is used to pre-process SQL with
   named parameters and is intended to avoid problems with (e.g.) Execute Block
   and processing internal parameters as statement parameters.

4. New interface IFirebirdLibrary provides access to the underlying firebird DLL
   or shared object. Available via a new member (GetFBLibrary) of IFirebirdAPI.

5. New function added to IB.pas

   function LoadFBLibrary(aLibPathName: string): IFirebirdLibrary

   This allows a Firebird Library to be loaded from an explicit path. use the
   IFirebirdLibrary.GetFirebirdAPI member function to get the Firebird API using
   the library. It is possible to load Firebird libraries from different locations
   simultaneously, each with a distinct IFirebirdAPI.

FBINTF Change Log  version               (1.1-2) Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:30:32 +0100

1. Firebird.pas: {$OBJECTCHECKS OFF} added to file to avoid runtime error when
   program compiled with -CR command line switch.

2. IServiceManager additions (informational):
    function getProtocol: TProtocol;
    function getPortNo: AnsiString;

3. IServiceManager improved error handling. Interfaces changed:
    function Start(Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true): boolean;
    function Query(SQPB: ISQPB; Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true) :IServiceQueryResults; overload;
    function Query(Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true) :IServiceQueryResults; overload;

4. IAttachment addition (informational)
    function GetSecurityDatabase: AnsiString;

5. IStatement: performance counters now updated after each Fetch. GetPerfStatistics
   thus now returns accumulated stats for a select statement from opening a cursor
   up to the last fetch.

6. DARWIN: uloadlibrary.inc bug fix. Many thanks to Luigi Naimi for correcting
   the problem.

7. Type change: "TPerfCounters = array[TPerfStats] of Int64". Note "Int64"
   replaces deprecated "comp" type.

10. Testsuite Test10 updated to include thread synchronisation for event reporting.

11. URL Connection Strings: inet4 and inet6 now recognised.

12. IBUtils: Parse and Make Connect String now recognise URL style loopback syntax.

13. IAttachment.CharSetName2CharSetID is now performed case insensitive.


FBINTF Change Log  version (1.1-1) Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:51:16 +0000

1. IBUtils.QuoteIdentifierIfNeeded: Add check for space character.

2. IAttachment: add two new methods
     function HasDefaultCharSet: boolean;
     function GetDefaultCharSetID: integer;

   These return, respectively, true if a connection default character set was
   specified and the character set id of the connection default character set.
   The DefaultCharSetID is cached when the connection is opened and hence does not
   require a database lookup.

3. Avoid exception when a text blob is a stored procedure parameter.

4. Update test suite to include a test for a stored proc returning a text blob.

5. IAttachment: add
      function GetRemoteProtocol: AnsiString;
      function GetODSMajorVersion: integer;
      function GetODSMinorVersion: integer;
      function GetAuthenticationMethod: AnsiString;

   These results are cached when the connection is opened and hence do not
   require a database lookup.

6. IAttachment: add "function GetConnectString: AnsiString;" This returns the
   connect string used to create/connect to the database.

7. IAttachment: Create Database using SQL statement. The username and password
   are now extracted and used to populate a DPB made available via IAttachment.getDPB.
   It is now possible to use IAttachment disconnect/connect to reconnect to
   a database for which the initial connection was established by a create
   database sql statement. Available in FPC only.

8. Update Test 1 to test 5, 6 and 7 above.

9. IBUtils code tidy up.

10. Parameter Block interfaces "find" method. As documented, this should have
   returned a nil interface when the item could not be found. Instead, an empty
   interface item was returned. "Find" now works as documented and will return
   a nil interface if the item cannot be found.

11. DBInformation: support added for isc_info_active_tran_count and isc_info_creation_date.

12. DBInformation: New interfaces: IDIRB and IDIRBItem added to support DB Information
    requests with additional parameters. This is to enable support for fb_info_page_contents
    (return of page contents). Response to fb_info_page_contents returned as
    a string with code page CP_NONE.

13. DBInformation: Support for fb_info_pages_used and fb_info_pages_free added, plus
    test suite updated.

14. DBInformation: Support for fb_info_crypt_key (Firebird 3.0.3 onwards) added as
    a string type, and fb_info_conn_flags (Firebird 3.0.3 onwards) added as an integer type.

15. Service Manager: List of protocols supported expanded to include inet, wnet and xnet.
    An overloaded version of IIFirebirdAPI.GetServiceManager also allows a non
    default connection port to be specified.

FBINTF Change Log  version                             (1.1-0) Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:20:02 +0000

1. Fix issues with setting SQL Param values using SetAsString with Numeric types.
   Scale is no longer ignored.

2. Fix issues with setting SQL Param values using SetAsString with Date values
   not in locale format but which are recognised by Firebird. Date values that
   cannot be converted to a string using Pascal library are now passed through
   to Firebird as Text Strings.

3. Lookup character set name by codepage amended to ensure that CP_UTF8 returns
   UTF8 and not UNICODE_FSS.

4. Charset ID problem. When using Firebird 3, with no default database character set
   and a column has a non-default collation specified, an incorrect character set
   id was being reported that could result in a 'division by zero' error when
   used by IBX. This has now been fixed.

5. Move GetCharsetName, CharSetID2CodePage, CodePage2CharSetID, CharSetName2CharSetID,
   CharSetWidth from IFirebirdAPI to IAttachment. This is a better data model as
   the character sets supported can be updated on a per database basis. That is
   it is possible to add a (Firebird) user defined character set to a database.

6. Add RegisterCharSet to IAttachment. This is used to register a user defined character
   set supported by Firebird with the API.

7. Add missing isc_info_db_read_only to list of decoded Database Information items
   in FBOutputBlock.pas and update test suite to include this item.

8. FB30Client: avoid always using "StartMultiple" when only a single database attachment.

9. Loading Windows fbclient.dll: when using the FIREBIRD variable to locate the client
   library or finding it by disk location, the PATH environment variable is now also set to
   include the FIREBIRD directory. This is to ensure that the correct dlls in the
   firebird client library dependencies are loaded.

10. Testsuite: Ensure consistent UTF-8 output on Windows console.

11. Testsuite: Update Windows script to include FPC 3.0.4 in search path.

12. FB30Statement: Protect call to "Move" and avoid calling with a nil pointer

13. FB30Statement: A check has been added to ensure that all SQL Parameters
    have been given a value (including NULL). Previously, failing to set the
    value of an SQL Parameter could give rise to unpredictable results or
    an SQLDA error.

14. FB30Statement/FB25Statement: Set SQLParam "modified" when string value set.

15. FBAttachment: Avoid string reference count error when processing an Ansistring
    parameter in an array of const passed to IAttachment.OpenCursor, etc.

16. FBAttachment: Allow for WideString and UnicodeString parameters in an array
    of const passed to IAttachment.OpenCursor, etc.


FBINTF Change Log  version             (1.0-2) Sat, 04 Mar 2017 14:43:56 +0000

1. Change syntax to Mode Delphi

2. Change all uses of string type to explicit AnsiString in order to ensure
   compatibility between Delphi and FPC. 

3. Various syntax changes to ensure Delphi and FPC compilation including GUIDs
   defined for each interface.

4. Generics syntax variations for Delphi added

5. PChar replaced with PByte expect where an actual string is being referenced,
   where PAnsiChar is used instead.

6. Review of type definitions in IBExternals to ensure Delphi compatibility

7. Testsuite updated for Delphi

FBINTF Change Log  version            (1.0-1) Fri, 24 Feb 2017 12:17:57 +0000

1. Limit maximum Blob segment read/write to MaxuShort. Avoids data loss with
   large blobs and the FB3 API.

2. Update Event Handling algorithm to avoid looping due to recreation of the
   event block.

3. Avoid invalid XSQLDA error when the only parameter is updated to null

4. Array Handling: fix problem with text arrays with character set none. When the
   DB connection has a default character set (e.g. UTF8), an error is raised by
   Firebird if the space allocated is not enough to allow for transliteration, even
   though it is not required for character set none.

5. IBUtils: List of reserved words brought up-to-date

6. Add ISQL style performance statistics collection to IStatement

7. Add IFirebirdAPI.CreateDatabase variant to allow execution of user provided
   CREATE DATABASE statement.

8. Update SQL Statement parsing to allow for Array Dimensions. That is so that the ':' in
   an array dimension is not mistaken for a named parameter prefix.

9. Trim function no longer applied to result of GetAsString for SQL_TEXT
   when Character set is octets. Avoids loss of non printable characters at start of string.

10. Add function GetPerfStatistics to IStatement. This returns ISQL like performance
    statistics for the last action. Requires use of procedure IStatement.EnableStatistics
    to enable stats gathering.

11. API Version information added as constants to IB.pas

12. BlobMetaData character set id should now be the same as that given by IColumnMetaData.GetCharSetID

13. Firebird Character set "NONE" now interpreted as codepage CP_ACP.

FBINTF Change Log  version                                      (1.0-0) Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:33:47 +0000

1. Initial Release

Revision:	266
Committed:	Wed Dec 26 18:34:32 2018 UTC (5 years, 11 months ago) by tony
File size:	10924 byte(s)
Log Message:	Fixes Merged
#	User	Rev	Content
1	tony	266	FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-4) Wed, 26 Dec 2018 18:20:35 +0000
2	tony	265
3	tony	266	This is rc2 for 1.1.4
4
5	tony	265	1. Fix a problem with the SQL parameter parser that failed to recognise parameters
6			where the second character of the parameter name is a numeric.
7
8	tony	266	2. New method for IAttachment: procedure getFBVersion(version: TStrings);
9			This returns the isc_version connection information as one or more lines.
10			This is the same information as returned by isql with the -z option.
11	tony	265
12	tony	266
13	tony	263	FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-3) Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:28:10 +0000
14	tony	238
15			1. DARWIN only syntax error: fix missing semi-colon in TFBClientAPI.LoadIBLibrary
16
17	tony	263	2. Restrict IsMultiThread check to Unix only for compatibility with
18			https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30535
19
20			3. New SQL Tokeniser added to IBUtils. This is used to pre-process SQL with
21			named parameters and is intended to avoid problems with (e.g.) Execute Block
22			and processing internal parameters as statement parameters.
23
24			4. New interface IFirebirdLibrary provides access to the underlying firebird DLL
25			or shared object. Available via a new member (GetFBLibrary) of IFirebirdAPI.
26
27			5. New function added to IB.pas
28
29			function LoadFBLibrary(aLibPathName: string): IFirebirdLibrary
30
31			This allows a Firebird Library to be loaded from an explicit path. use the
32			IFirebirdLibrary.GetFirebirdAPI member function to get the Firebird API using
33			the library. It is possible to load Firebird libraries from different locations
34			simultaneously, each with a distinct IFirebirdAPI.
35
36	tony	233	FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-2) Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:30:32 +0100
37	tony	59
38	tony	209	1. Firebird.pas: {$OBJECTCHECKS OFF} added to file to avoid runtime error when
39			program compiled with -CR command line switch.
40
41			2. IServiceManager additions (informational):
42			function getProtocol: TProtocol;
43			function getPortNo: AnsiString;
44
45			3. IServiceManager improved error handling. Interfaces changed:
46			function Start(Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true): boolean;
47			function Query(SQPB: ISQPB; Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true) :IServiceQueryResults; overload;
48			function Query(Request: ISRB; RaiseExceptionOnError: boolean=true) :IServiceQueryResults; overload;
49
50			4. IAttachment addition (informational)
51			function GetSecurityDatabase: AnsiString;
52
53			5. IStatement: performance counters now updated after each Fetch. GetPerfStatistics
54			thus now returns accumulated stats for a select statement from opening a cursor
55			up to the last fetch.
56
57			6. DARWIN: uloadlibrary.inc bug fix. Many thanks to Luigi Naimi for correcting
58			the problem.
59
60			7. Type change: "TPerfCounters = array[TPerfStats] of Int64". Note "Int64"
61			replaces deprecated "comp" type.
62
63	tony	217	10. Testsuite Test10 updated to include thread synchronisation for event reporting.
64	tony	209
65	tony	231	11. URL Connection Strings: inet4 and inet6 now recognised.
66	tony	217
67	tony	231	12. IBUtils: Parse and Make Connect String now recognise URL style loopback syntax.
68
69	tony	233	13. IAttachment.CharSetName2CharSetID is now performed case insensitive.
70	tony	231
71	tony	233
72	tony	209	FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-1) Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:51:16 +0000
73
74	tony	107	1. IBUtils.QuoteIdentifierIfNeeded: Add check for space character.
75
76	tony	109	2. IAttachment: add two new methods
77			function HasDefaultCharSet: boolean;
78			function GetDefaultCharSetID: integer;
79
80			These return, respectively, true if a connection default character set was
81	tony	117	specified and the character set id of the connection default character set.
82			The DefaultCharSetID is cached when the connection is opened and hence does not
83			require a database lookup.
84	tony	109
85	tony	110	3. Avoid exception when a text blob is a stored procedure parameter.
86	tony	109
87	tony	111	4. Update test suite to include a test for a stored proc returning a text blob.
88
89	tony	117	5. IAttachment: add
90			function GetRemoteProtocol: AnsiString;
91			function GetODSMajorVersion: integer;
92			function GetODSMinorVersion: integer;
93	tony	143	function GetAuthenticationMethod: AnsiString;
94	tony	117
95			These results are cached when the connection is opened and hence do not
96			require a database lookup.
97
98			6. IAttachment: add "function GetConnectString: AnsiString;" This returns the
99			connect string used to create/connect to the database.
100
101			7. IAttachment: Create Database using SQL statement. The username and password
102			are now extracted and used to populate a DPB made available via IAttachment.getDPB.
103			It is now possible to use IAttachment disconnect/connect to reconnect to
104			a database for which the initial connection was established by a create
105	tony	120	database sql statement. Available in FPC only.
106	tony	117
107			8. Update Test 1 to test 5, 6 and 7 above.
108
109			9. IBUtils code tidy up.
110
111	tony	143	10. Parameter Block interfaces "find" method. As documented, this should have
112			returned a nil interface when the item could not be found. Instead, an empty
113			interface item was returned. "Find" now works as documented and will return
114			a nil interface if the item cannot be found.
115
116			11. DBInformation: support added for isc_info_active_tran_count and isc_info_creation_date.
117
118			12. DBInformation: New interfaces: IDIRB and IDIRBItem added to support DB Information
119			requests with additional parameters. This is to enable support for fb_info_page_contents
120			(return of page contents). Response to fb_info_page_contents returned as
121			a string with code page CP_NONE.
122
123			13. DBInformation: Support for fb_info_pages_used and fb_info_pages_free added, plus
124			test suite updated.
125
126			14. DBInformation: Support for fb_info_crypt_key (Firebird 3.0.3 onwards) added as
127			a string type, and fb_info_conn_flags (Firebird 3.0.3 onwards) added as an integer type.
128
129			15. Service Manager: List of protocols supported expanded to include inet, wnet and xnet.
130			An overloaded version of IIFirebirdAPI.GetServiceManager also allows a non
131			default connection port to be specified.
132
133	tony	107	FBINTF Change Log version (1.1-0) Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:20:02 +0000
134
135	tony	59	1. Fix issues with setting SQL Param values using SetAsString with Numeric types.
136			Scale is no longer ignored.
137
138			2. Fix issues with setting SQL Param values using SetAsString with Date values
139			not in locale format but which are recognised by Firebird. Date values that
140			cannot be converted to a string using Pascal library are now passed through
141			to Firebird as Text Strings.
142
143	tony	60	3. Lookup character set name by codepage amended to ensure that CP_UTF8 returns
144			UTF8 and not UNICODE_FSS.
145
146			4. Charset ID problem. When using Firebird 3, with no default database character set
147			and a column has a non-default collation specified, an incorrect character set
148			id was being reported that could result in a 'division by zero' error when
149			used by IBX. This has now been fixed.
150
151			5. Move GetCharsetName, CharSetID2CodePage, CodePage2CharSetID, CharSetName2CharSetID,
152			CharSetWidth from IFirebirdAPI to IAttachment. This is a better data model as
153			the character sets supported can be updated on a per database basis. That is
154			it is possible to add a (Firebird) user defined character set to a database.
155
156			6. Add RegisterCharSet to IAttachment. This is used to register a user defined character
157			set supported by Firebird with the API.
158
159	tony	61	7. Add missing isc_info_db_read_only to list of decoded Database Information items
160			in FBOutputBlock.pas and update test suite to include this item.
161	tony	60
162	tony	63	8. FB30Client: avoid always using "StartMultiple" when only a single database attachment.
163	tony	61
164	tony	68	9. Loading Windows fbclient.dll: when using the FIREBIRD variable to locate the client
165			library or finding it by disk location, the PATH environment variable is now also set to
166			include the FIREBIRD directory. This is to ensure that the correct dlls in the
167			firebird client library dependencies are loaded.
168	tony	63
169	tony	68	10. Testsuite: Ensure consistent UTF-8 output on Windows console.
170
171			11. Testsuite: Update Windows script to include FPC 3.0.4 in search path.
172
173			12. FB30Statement: Protect call to "Move" and avoid calling with a nil pointer
174
175			13. FB30Statement: A check has been added to ensure that all SQL Parameters
176			have been given a value (including NULL). Previously, failing to set the
177			value of an SQL Parameter could give rise to unpredictable results or
178			an SQLDA error.
179
180			14. FB30Statement/FB25Statement: Set SQLParam "modified" when string value set.
181
182	tony	70	15. FBAttachment: Avoid string reference count error when processing an Ansistring
183			parameter in an array of const passed to IAttachment.OpenCursor, etc.
184	tony	68
185	tony	70	16. FBAttachment: Allow for WideString and UnicodeString parameters in an array
186			of const passed to IAttachment.OpenCursor, etc.
187
188
189	tony	56	FBINTF Change Log version (1.0-2) Sat, 04 Mar 2017 14:43:56 +0000
190	tony	47
191	tony	56	1. Change syntax to Mode Delphi
192
193			2. Change all uses of string type to explicit AnsiString in order to ensure
194			compatibility between Delphi and FPC.
195
196			3. Various syntax changes to ensure Delphi and FPC compilation including GUIDs
197			defined for each interface.
198
199			4. Generics syntax variations for Delphi added
200
201			5. PChar replaced with PByte expect where an actual string is being referenced,
202			where PAnsiChar is used instead.
203
204			6. Review of type definitions in IBExternals to ensure Delphi compatibility
205
206			7. Testsuite updated for Delphi
207
208			FBINTF Change Log version (1.0-1) Fri, 24 Feb 2017 12:17:57 +0000
209
210	tony	47	1. Limit maximum Blob segment read/write to MaxuShort. Avoids data loss with
211			large blobs and the FB3 API.
212
213			2. Update Event Handling algorithm to avoid looping due to recreation of the
214			event block.
215
216			3. Avoid invalid XSQLDA error when the only parameter is updated to null
217
218			4. Array Handling: fix problem with text arrays with character set none. When the
219			DB connection has a default character set (e.g. UTF8), an error is raised by
220			Firebird if the space allocated is not enough to allow for transliteration, even
221			though it is not required for character set none.
222
223			5. IBUtils: List of reserved words brought up-to-date
224
225			6. Add ISQL style performance statistics collection to IStatement
226
227			7. Add IFirebirdAPI.CreateDatabase variant to allow execution of user provided
228			CREATE DATABASE statement.
229
230			8. Update SQL Statement parsing to allow for Array Dimensions. That is so that the ':' in
231			an array dimension is not mistaken for a named parameter prefix.
232
233			9. Trim function no longer applied to result of GetAsString for SQL_TEXT
234			when Character set is octets. Avoids loss of non printable characters at start of string.
235
236			10. Add function GetPerfStatistics to IStatement. This returns ISQL like performance
237			statistics for the last action. Requires use of procedure IStatement.EnableStatistics
238			to enable stats gathering.
239
240			11. API Version information added as constants to IB.pas
241
242			12. BlobMetaData character set id should now be the same as that given by IColumnMetaData.GetCharSetID
243
244			13. Firebird Character set "NONE" now interpreted as codepage CP_ACP.
245
246	tony	45	FBINTF Change Log version (1.0-0) Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:33:47 +0000
247
248			1. Initial Release
249