## Code examples

## Initialising

First of all you have to initialise the gda library, i.e. to call the gda_init () function, for example:

    gda_init ("TestGDA", "0.1", argc, argv);

After initialising you can work as usual or make libgda call a custom defined function calling gda_main_run() (note that if you use this way you will need to call gda_main_quit() in order to finish the program).

For example a basic program would look like:

    void
    do_stuff ()
    {
    	GdaClient *client;
    	GdaConnection *connection;

            /* open a connection */
    	client = gda_client_new ();
    	g_print ("CONNECTING\n");
    	connection = gda_client_open_connection (client, "calvaris", NULL, NULL,
    						 GDA_CONNECTION_OPTIONS_READ_ONLY);
    	g_print ("CONNECTED\n");

            /* use the connection */
    	execute_some_queries (connection);

            /* close the connection */
            g_object_unref (G_OBJECT (connection));
    	g_object_unref (G_OBJECT (client));
    }

    int
    main (int argc, char **argv)
    {
    	g_print ("STARTING\n");

    	gda_init ("TestGDA", "0.1", argc, argv);
          	do_stuff();

    	g_print("ENDING\n");
    }