Is HibernateD dead?

[Matthias Klumpp]

On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 21:28:18 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 18:01:07 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>> DiamondMVC looks nice, but I would need PostgreSQL support for 
>> sure.
>> Therefore, I think there are three options:
>>  1) Extend the DiamondMVC ORM to support missing features that 
>> Hibernated has (maybe make it use ddbc as backend?)
>>  2) Revive Hibernated - contacting Vadim Lopatin would be key 
>> for that, and maybe the project could be maintained in the 
>> dlang-community organization (although there are competing 
>> projects for it...)
>>  3) Find a different D ORM that does the job and expand it to 
>> include missing features.
>
> Yes, I completely agree with PostgreSQL support. It's really 
> important to me getting that working, as well MSSQL. I was 
> hoping I could find time this weekend to actually do that.

Would it maybe be easier for you to base on ddbc[1] or another 
existing abstraction layer for database abstraction?
Ddbc is pretty neat, and even has support for reading structs 
directly from the database.


[1]: https://github.com/buggins/ddbc

> Perhaps I will end up having another "optional" dependency to 
> it as a temporary until I can have a better implementation or 
> something.
>
> The frontend part of postgresql is almost finished, it's just 
> having the postgresql driver working properly, which is where 
> it's frozen right now.

Hmm... Does any public code for that exist already that I could 
play around with?
Unfortunately, I have a few more unusual requirements for 
Postgres, like:
  * UUIDs as primary keys, instead of integers
  * Ability to register custom datatypes with the ORM (version 
numbers in this case, the ORM can view them as text, but the 
database has a special type for them)
  * Obviously the usual ORM stuff, one-to-many, many-to-many, etc. 
relations

(Obviously not a must-have list, I added support for custom 
datatypes to my ddbc fork as well, because it's not really a 
feature many people need)

Diamond is a neat project, I played around with it about half a 
year ago, but didn't test the ORM part at all back then.