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beachmachine / django-jython

Database backends and extensions for Django development on top of Jython.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Oracle backend #8

Closed samh closed 9 years ago

samh commented 9 years ago

What would it take to bring back support for Oracle? I looked at the existing drivers briefly, but I'm not sure where to start.

beachmachine commented 9 years ago

Hi!

The reason why the oracle backend is not included in django-jython any more is, that I have nearly no experience with oracle, and do not own a license of this software.

If you are interested in bringing back the oracle support, I think the most easy way is to start from Django's own Oracle backend. Copy it to the django-jython source code, an replace code that is related to cx_Oracle with code that works with JDBC. Basically this is what the classes in doj.db.backens module are for. django-jython comes with some test cases to check if your backend is working - you find them in doj.tests.db.

I hope this gives you a good starting point. It would be great if you could bring back the support for Oracle on django-jython! :-)

samh commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the explanation! I don't know if I'll be able to implement it to the point where it can be supported, given my limited use, but we'll see.