Making Heavy Metal SQL Client recognize your DB through ODBC.

The Black Toolkit is made to be extensible, that means you can install XML files to add more functionality to the software.

To make SQL Client to work with another DB you need to make an XML for it, and place it in the sql\ installation dir of The Black Toolkit. There´s one file for DB:


<ondetect>Heavy Metal will detect the XML file to use if the DB it recognizes the query in ondetect tag. Must be a query just this DB recognizes</ondetect>

<ongettables>An SQL Query statement for getting the tables of the DB. You can return more than one column, such as database,schema,table_name (PostgreSQL) or database,table_name (MySQL) </ongettables>

<maptypes>
   Types for SQL-to-java and java-to-SQL mapping made for the tool. Examples:

    <map type="TEXT" javatype="String"/> 
    <map types="LONG"  javatype="long" />

</maptypes>

<ongetfields>An SQL Query for getting the fields for a table. Heavy Metal will expand %1% and %2%... by the db/schema/table names returned by ongettables. The query must return the column name and type as in maptypes.</ongetfields>

<ongetpkfields>An SQL Query for getting the Primary key field names for a table. Heavy Metal will expand %1% and %2% ... by the schema/table names returned by ongettables.</ongetpkfields>

<ongetfkfields>An SQL Query for getting the imported fields for a column: Heavy metal will expand %1% and %2%... by the schema/table names returned by ongettables, and the %3% (or %4%) by the column name.
</ongetfkfields>

<sequencecmd>An SQL Query for access the sequence or generator of a table. This is for the SQL importer.</sequencecmd>

<onselect>An SQL Query for making a SELECT statement of a table</onselect>

<object name="ObjName" global="true" query="..." >
   This will declare an database object. You can declare object as much as you like.
    name=Name of the object (Like Indexes, Views, Functions...).
    global="false" if it depends of a table (like an Index), "true" if does not (like a Function).
    query=SQL for query these objects. Must return a full list of details of the objects in the database.
 

    <action name="Action1" helpurl="...">
     SQL for the user can make actions for the object. Like CREATE, ALTER, etc. You can declare action    as much you like. Heavy Metal will expand %1% by the db.table name and %3%, %4%,... for the query return (for non global objects). And %1%,... by the query return (for global objects).
     </action>
</object>