The Table Editor Table Field Application
This application edits the Person table in the Personnel database. It is a forms application that allows the user to update a person's values, remove the person, or add new persons. Various table field utilities are provided with the application to demonstrate how they work.
The objects used in this application are shown in the following table:
At the start of the application, a database cursor is opened to load the table field with data from the "person table". After loading the table field, you can browse and edit the displayed values. You can add, update or delete entries. When finished, the values are unloaded from the table field, and your updates are transferred back into the "person" table.
C
C Program: TableEdit
C Purpose: entry point to edit the "person"
C table in the database,
C via a table field.
program TableEdit
exec sql include sqlca
exec sql declare person table
1 (name char(20),
2 age integer2,
3 number integer4)
exec sql begin declare section
C Person information
character*20 pname
integer page
integer pnum
integer maxid
C Table field entry information
C State of data set entry
integer state
C Record number
integer recnum
C Last row in table field
integer lastrow
C Utility buffers
C Message buffer
character*100 msgbuf
C Response buffer for prompts
character*20 respbuf
exec sql end declare section
C Update error from database
logical updaterr
C Transaction aborted
logical xaborted
C Function to fill table field
integer LoadTable
C Table field row states
C Empty or undefined row
parameter (rowundef = 0)
C Appended by user
parameter (rownew = 1)
C Loaded by program - not updated
parameter (rowunchanged = 2)
C Loaded by program - since changed
parameter (rowchanged = 3)
C Deleted by program
parameter (rowdeleted = 4)
C SQL value for no rows
parameter (notfound = 100)
C Set up error handling for main program
exec sql whenever sqlwarning continue
exec sql whenever not found continue
exec sql whenever sqlerror stop
C Start up Ingres and the FORMS system
exec sql connect 'personnel'
exec frs forms
C Verify that the user can edit the "person" table
exec frs prompt noecho ('Password for table editor: ', :respbuf)
if (respbuf .ne. 'MASTER_OF_ALL') then
exec frs endforms
exec sql disconnect
stop 'No permission for task. Exiting . . .'
endif
C Assume no SQL errors can happen during screen updating
exec sql whenever sqlerror continue
exec frs message 'Initializing Person Form . . .'
exec frs forminit personfrm
C
C Initialize "persontbl" table field with a data set in FILL mode,
C so that the runtime user can append rows. To keep track of
C events occurring to original rows loaded into the table field,
C hide the unique person number.
C
exec frs inittable personfrm persontbl fill (number = integer4)
maxid = LoadTable()
exec frs display personfrm update
exec frs initialize
exec frs activate menuitem 'Top'
exec frs begin
C
C Provide menu items to scroll to both extremes of
C the table field.
C
exec frs scroll personfrm persontbl to 1
exec frs end
exec frs activate menuitem 'Bottom'
exec frs begin
exec frs scroll personfrm persontbl to end
exec frs end
exec frs activate menuitem 'Remove'
exec frs begin
C
C Remove the person in the row the user's cursor is on.
C If there are no persons, exit operation with message.
C Note that this check cannot really happen, as there is
C always an UNDEFINED row in FILL mode.
C
exec frs inquire_frs table personfrm
1 (lastrow = lastrow(persontbl))
if (lastrow .eq. 0) then
exec frs message 'Nobody to Remove'
exec frs sleep 2
exec frs resume field persontbl
endif
C Record it later
exec frs deleterow personfrm persontbl
exec frs end
exec frs activate menuitem 'Find'
exec frs begin
C
C Scroll user to the requested table field entry.
C Prompt the user for a name, and if one is typed in,
C loop through the data set searching for it.
C
exec frs prompt ('Person''s name : ', :respbuf)
if (respbuf(1:1) .eq. ' ') then
exec frs resume field persontbl
endif
exec frs unloadtable personfrm persontbl
1 (:pname = name,
2 :recnum = _record,
3 :state = _state)
exec frs begin
C Do not compare with deleted rows
if ((pname .eq. respbuf) .and.
1 (state .ne. rowdeleted)) then
exec frs scroll personfrm persontbl
1 to :recnum
exec frs resume field persontbl
endif
exec frs end
C Fell out of loop without finding name
write (msgbuf, 10) respbuf
10 format ('Person "', a,
1 '" not found in table [HIT RETURN] ')
exec frs prompt noecho (:msgbuf, :respbuf)
exec frs end
exec frs activate menuitem 'Exit'
exec frs begin
exec frs validate field persontbl
exec frs breakdisplay
exec frs end
exec frs finalize
C
C Exit person table editor and unload the table field. If any
C updates, deletions or additions were made, duplicate these
C changes in the source table. If the user added new people,
C assign a unique person id to each person before adding the person
C to the table. To do this, increment the previously-saved maximum
C id number with each insert.
C
C Do all the updates in a transaction
exec sql savepoint savept
C
C Hard code the error handling in the UNLOADTABLE loop, in
C order to cleanly exit the loop.
C
exec sql whenever sqlerror continue
updaterr = .false.
xaborted = .false.
exec frs message 'Exiting Person Application . . .'
exec frs unloadtable personfrm persontbl
1 (:pname = name, :page = age,
2 :pnum = number, :state = _state)
exec frs begin
C Appended by user. Insert with new unique id.
if (state .eq. rownew) then
maxid = maxid + 1
exec sql insert into person (name, age, number)
1 values (:pname, :page, :maxid)
C Updated by user. Reflect in table.
else if (state .eq. rowchanged) then
exec sql update person set
1 name = :pname, age = :page
2 where number = :pnum
C
C Deleted by user, so delete from table. Note that only
C original rows, not rows appended at runtime, are saved
C by the program.
C
else if (state .eq. rowdeleted) then
exec sql delete from person
1 where number = :pnum
C Ignore UNDEFINED or UNCHANGED - No updates
endif
C
C Handle error conditions -
C If an error occurred, abort the transaction.
C If no rows were updated, inform user and prompt
C for continuation.
C
if (sqlcod .lt. 0) then
C SQL error
exec sql inquire_sql (:msgbuf = errortext)
exec sql rollback to savept
updaterr = .true.
xaborted = .true.
exec frs endloop
else if (sqlcod .eq. notfound) then
write (msgbuf, 11) pname
11 format ('Person "', a,
1 '" not updated. Abort all updates?')
exec frs prompt (:msgbuf, :respbuf)
if ((respbuf(1:1) .eq. 'y') .or.
1 (respbuf(1:1) .eq. 'y')) then
exec sql rollback to savept
xaborted = .true.
exec frs endloop
endif
endif
exec frs end
if (.not. xaborted) then
C Commit the updates
exec sql commit
endif
C Terminate the FORMS and Ingres
exec frs endforms
exec sql disconnect
if (updaterr) then
print *, 'Your updates were aborted because of error:'
print *, msgbuf
endif
end
C
C Function: LoadTable
C Purpose: Load the table field from the 'person' table. The
C columns 'name' and 'age' will be displayed, and
C 'number' will be hidden.
C Parameters: None
C Returns: Maximum employee number
C
integer function LoadTable()
exec sql include sqlca
C
C Declare person information:
C The preprocessor already knows that these variables have been
C declared, from their declarations in the main program.
C
character*20 pname
integer page
integer pnum
C Max person id number to return
integer maxid
exec sql declare loadtab cursor for
1 select name, age, number
2 from person
C Set up error handling for loading procedure
C Close loadtab
exec sql whenever sqlerror go to 100
C Close loadtab
exec sql whenever not found go to 100
exec frs message 'Loading Person Information . . .'
maxid = 0
C Fetch the maximum person id number for later use
exec sql select max(number)
1 into :maxid
2 from person
exec sql open loadtab
55 if (sqlcod .ne. 0) go to 555
C Fetch data into record and load table field
exec sql fetch loadtab into :pname, :page, :pnum
exec frs loadtable personfrm persontbl
1 (name = :pname, age = :page, number = :pnum)
go to 55
555 continue
exec sql whenever sqlerror continue
100 exec sql close loadtab
LoadTable = maxid
end
Last modified date: 11/09/2022