This package is part of the DBMDatabase manpage. For more information on the database see the DBMDatabase::Overview.
Copyright ©
1997 Curtis
E. Dyreson. All rights reserved. Please be aware of
the DBMDatabase::Licence and DBMDatabase::Version.
This class provides conversion routines, for use in the DBMDatabase::Database. For efficiency, strings are mapped to DBMDatabase::Ids. That mapping is done by the conversion routines in this class.
- The name of the database that stores the tools database. It is probably not really needed since the database name is a global globals::Constants.
Initialize the conversion tools
- The DBMDatabase::Id to convert.
Convert an DBMDatabase::Id to a String by doing a table lookup. This returns the string.
- The string to convert.
Convert a string to a DBMDatabase::Id by doing a table lookup. This returns the DBMDatabase::Id.
Close the mapping tables (is this needed?) Deprecated...
- The string to convert.
Add a new mapping to the string to Id table. This returns an DBMDatabase::Id.