## Virtual methods for providers

The GdaServerProvider is the class you should implement for adding a new provider. This class is just a typical GObject-based class, with a set of virtual methods, that are the ones that you must implement. These virtual methods are declared in the class structure, in the `gda-server-provider.h` file. They are explained in detail in the following subsections.

## get_version

Returns a string containing the version of the provider