[DB-SIG] Controlling return types for DB APIs

[Carsten Haese]

On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 16:19 -0400, Jim Patterson wrote:
> On 4/21/07, Carsten Haese <carsten at uniqsys.com> wrote:
>         In light of this development, I propose the following changes
>         to my
>         proposal:
>         * The SQLData class and the ToDB interface will be eliminated.
>         * The typemap attribute will be renamed to output_typemap.
>         * An analogous input_typemap will be added. 
> 
> I'm not a big fan of the terms input and output for a case like this
> they can be confusing.  For example does in mean into Python
> or into the database.  So I would prefer more explicit terms like 
> "fromdb" or "topython" (I would pick the to/from db since it is
> shorter and just as clear).

The wording was intended to be from the point of view of the database,
but I agree that it would eliminate confusion to make the direction
explicitly clear. I'm fine with fromdb_typemap and todb_typemap instead
of output_typemap and input_typemap, respectively.

-Carsten