Connecting to H2 with Objective-C?

[Steve McLeod]

I've been wondering about the possibilities of connecting to an H2 database from Objective-C. My vague feeling is that I'd have to write a custom database API in Objective-C that uses a TCP connection to an H2 database.

Does this seem practical? Feasible? Anyone tried something like this?

[Steve McLeod]

I could perhaps create an Objective-C wrapper around H2's Shell tool.

[Sergi Vladykin]

Hi,

What exactly do you want to achieve?

May be you should look at https://code.google.com/p/j2objc/ 

It would be funny if it is possible to port H2 to iOS.

Sergi

[Brian]

Not understanding the platform or if this is for local or remote purposes - I'd suggest writing an app tier as the proxy - perhaps domain specific RESTful services (your own api) that you can use standard/native ObjC apis to access. Perhaps the PostgreSQL ODBC client can be run to connect to remote H2 with the pgsql server running.  Is there an ODBC/jdbc bridge on your platform that could work with the H2 jdbc driver?  Implementing the wire protocol in another language would be a lot of work and potentially exposed/prone to protocol drift/breakage.

[Thomas Mueller]

Hi,

I don't know what are the common ways to access a database in Objective-C. If there are none, I would probably also try J2ObjC - it is a bit similar to the Java to C++ converter I started to implement.

Regards,

Thomas

[Steve McLeod]

Thanks all.

Objective-C (using Cocoa on OS X) seems to lack an equivalent to JDBC. I'm toying with the idea of a native iPad app for accessing a database in a novel way. As H2 is the database I use on a daily basis, it seemed like a good place to start.

I'll look at j2objc, perhaps.

Regards,

Steve 

On Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:39:37 UTC+2, Steve McLeod wrote: