Greetings, oh-robed-ones,

We have a situation where security policy mandates that the database connection is handled by a super-secret C++ class in an .o file... Fine for C/C++, but I need to connect to the DB from Perl (without using DBI->connect), since I don't have the user/pw, so...

XS/Swig it is.

Passing data such as strings/ints/etc is not an issue using the above wrappers, but what about calling a C function to connect to the DB, and returning that *handle* (pointer presumably?) to Perl for use in subsequent DBI usage such as $dbh->do/execute/etc?

Anyone done something like this? Will it even work? I'm hoping to save some time, and don't want to embark on this journey unless I know it's possible...

In reply to DB -> C++ -> XS/Swig -> DBI -> Perl by AbominableMonk

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