[rucksack-devel] classes

[Arthur Lemmens]

[Sorry for the late reply.]

Helmut Enders wrote:

> Using rucksack with many applications, and many users
> pro application (one rucksack for one user),
> I'm looking for a function to request the "meta" data
> of a rucksack (what psql is for postgresql).
>   - what classes (slots) are there etc.
>
> I think, it is not to difficult, to do that on user-level,
> like a doc-list of "(defclass xyz ()..." strings,
> with a defined name in root. After an eval on these strings,
> the rest can be done with the map-... functions.
>
> Is such a functionality in rucksack, or is a plan already in place?

It sounds like the schema table would be a good basis for something
like this (see schema-table.lisp).  I don't think that it should be
necessary to do an EVAL on strings containing DEFCLASS forms.

Arthur