annotate base/database/generics.lisp @ 309:7038c3dc0a5a

Add some generic functions for querying the database in amuse-database-admin.

Ignore-this: d2516f9e731f2e7a079d8a094c70e927

How much general functionality should there be here?
The basic idea is a generalisation of mtp-admin, but there is a lot still to do.

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(cl:in-package #:amuse-database-admin)

(defgeneric make-composition-identifier (package composition-id))


;;;====================================================================
;;; Generic functions for querying the database
;;;
;;; FIXME: how sane is this? The idea was to have a general mtp-admin.
;;;
;;; What about arbitrary SQL conditions? Might be useful for general
;;; searching, and defining new datasets (which I currently do by
;;; writing the resuls of a SQL query to a file (e.g. `all the Beatles
;;; songs'), and then reading the file into lisp). Amuse-midi-db
;;; implements these methods.
;;;
;;; Also, should this kind of generality be extended to data import
;;; and export?
;;; =====================================================================

(defgeneric list-collections (package-object &key compositions stream))

(defgeneric list-compositions (package-object &key
					      collection-identifier stream))