Hi

I'm most probably reinventing the wheel

I had to write a parser to parse mysql types like

Is there any way to get this type info in a more atomic and standardized way?

I tried DBI::column_info and querying information_schema.`COLUMNS` but couldn't get anything which didn't required writing a parser.

background

My job involves writing many HTML/JS GUIs for our data models and my colleagues are quite "agile" in changing data-models on the fly. Our schemas are replicated (but not synchronized) on different servers.

Now I'm trying to automate type-checking and form generation on the GUI level.

Such that enum('Y','N') results in a [ ] check box and enum('export','import','view') in a select menu.

update

actually using DBI::column_info I'm getting quite detailed informations for enum

    mysql_type_name         => "enum('Y','N')",
    mysql_values            => ["Y", "N"],
    TYPE_NAME               => "ENUM",

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but informations like unsigned and zerofill seem to get lost.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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update

fixed format issue, thanks stevieb++

In reply to Querying and parsing MySQL data types by LanX

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