Hi,
I am new to firebird. Though I have been reading The Firebird Book and have used Firebird in studying. My question is how to create events in Firebird (1.5.2.4731) when a row is added in a table via Stored Procedure and how to register and get notified of the said event from a C# application. All this using the .Net Firebird Provider v 1.7.
The example in the book is theoretical and general. The example in this link http://firebird.sourceforg
The example should make use of the FireBird sample database Employee.fdb so I can easily test and apply it
TIA,
PinoyBug
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For event handling in IB/FB you have to use triggers undependent whether you use C# or other developping environment. As I know this is the only possibilty for this purpose. And the simplest way you can realise this is the database side I mean. All other solution will be more complicated and not so reliable because the trigger uses the IB/FB's internal mechanism.
with best regards
kacor
A trigger could call a stored procedure which in turn raises the event, the application has to register interest in the event (subscription) and then consume them as they occur.
Please consider trying to describe what you wish to achieve rather than focusing on the method, we may be able to suggest something better suited.
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by: kacorPosted on 2005-04-07 at 03:36:40ID: 13725411
Hi PinoyBug,
I used only InterBase and Delphi so I can help in the followings to your question:
".. seems to refer to subscribing to an event on a table with an existing event created"
In InterBase you have to create first a trigger. InterBase has the command POST_EVENT and this informs the event handler when the event occurs (the SET TERM is needed for compatibility only):
SET TERM ^;
CREATE TRIGGER TR_NewOrder
FOR Orders
ACTIVE AFTER INSERT
AS
BEGIN
POST_EVENT ’New order’;
END^
SET TERM ;^
Between the IBExpress components of Delphi there is the IBEvents component. First you register the IBEvents:
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
IBDatabase1.Connected := True;
IBTransaction1.Active := True;
IBEvents1.Registered := True;
end;
procedure TForm1.FormDestroy(Sender:
begin
IBEvents1.Registered := False;
IBDatabase1.Connected := False;
end;
In the Events property of the IBEvents component you write in the "new order" event. The IBEvents component has the event "OnEventAlert". To handle this event alerter you can use the following procedure for example:
procedure TForm1.IBEvents1EventAlert
EventCount: Integer; var CancelAlerts: Boolean);
begin
Application.BringToFront;
MessageDlg('Delphi message: ' + EventName + ' event has occured.',
mtInformation, mbOKCancel, 0);
end;
To stop the alerts you can use the CancelEvents, or restart alerting by QueueEvents method.
If a new order will be inserted you'll get the ’New order’ message.
I hope this helps
wbr kacor