Creating a User Defined Table: Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to create a user defined table. The tutorial, then shows you how to store a new record.

1. Make sure that you have created a session.
2. Define a schema for the new table. Create an array of SGenericRecordTypeInfo items. Each SGenericRecordTypeInfo item defines a field in the record.

   const SGenericRecordTypeInfo recordInfo[] =
           {
           SGenericRecordTypeInfo(KCDTIdRecordName,EText,ENotNull,KCDTypeNameRecordName),
           SGenericRecordTypeInfo(KCDTIdRecordTag,EUint32,ENoAttrs,KCDTypeNameRecordTag),
           SGenericRecordTypeInfo(KCDTIdWLANServiceId,EUint32,ENoAttrs,KNameWLANServiceId),
           SGenericRecordTypeInfo(KCDTIdWLANType,EUint32,ENoAttrs,KNameWLANType),
           SGenericRecordTypeInfo(KCDTIdWLANEnabled,EBool,ENoAttrs,KNameWLANEnabled),
           SGenericRecordTypeInfo(KCDTIdWLANPriority,EUint32,ENoAttrs,KNameWLANPriority),
           SGenericRecordTypeInfo(0,0,ENoAttrs,KCDNull)
           };

3. Define a name for the table.

   _LIT(KGenericTable,"MyGenericTable");

4. Create a CMDBGenericRecord object. A CMDBGenericRecord object represents a record and a set of records Give the object the name of the table and the name of the schema.

   ...
   // Record factory creates the CMDBGenericRecord object. The KCDNewTableRequest value 
   // passed to the record factory allocates a new table Id.
   CMDBGenericRecord* ptrNewTable = 
         static_cast<CMDBGenericRecord*>(CCDRecordBase::RecordFactoryL(KCDNewTableRequest));
   
   // Initialise with the name of the table and the name of the schema.
   ptrNewTable->InitialiseL(KGenericTable(),recordInfo);
   ...

5. Access fields in the record. The code uses GetFieldByNameL() and GetFieldByIdL().

   ...
   TInt valueType;
   
   CMDBElement* LanType = ptrNewTable-> GetFieldByNameL(KNameWLANType, valueType);
   CMDBElement* RecordName = ptrNewTable->GetFieldByIdL(KCDTIdRecordName);
   ...

6. Change the valuie of the fields and create a new record.

   ...
   // Cast the field objects to the appropriate type
   CMDBField<TUint32>* LanTypefield = static_cast<CMDBField<TUint32>*>(LanType);
   CMDBField<TDesC>* RecordNamefield = static_cast<CMDBField<TDesC>*>(RecordName);
   
   // Change the field value
   *LanTypefield = 100;
   
   // Change the field value
   _LIT(KNewName, " NewName ");
   RecordNamefield->SetMaxLengthL(KNewName().Length());
   *RecordNamefield = KNewName();
   
   // Can also use this format: RecordNamefield->SetL(KNewName());
   
   
   // Asks for a new record
   ptrNewTable->SetRecordId(KCDNewRecordRequest);
   
   // Stores the new record
   ptrNewTable->StoreL(*iDb);
   ...