CDB commands

CDB provides the following commands:

1. HELP

2. RELEASEINFO

3. CHECKCONFIG

4. EXTRACTRELEASE

5. COMPARERELEASE

This is the most basic command and used to get help on a CDB command.

> cdb HELP <command>

Use RELEASEINFO command to get the information about the release that is currently in the database.

> cdb RELEASEINFO

Use CHECKCONFIG commnad to display the configuration information.

> cdb CHECKCONFIG

Use EXTRACTRELEASE to extract a SINGLE release to the database. This reads in all files in epoc32\include\... to the database, and assigns the configuration name to the extracted files.

> cdb extractrelease <config> [-a <api_doc>]

where:

• <config> is the configuration name of the extracted data

• -a <api_doc> is the full path to the API classification document. This option provides the access information i.e. if the API is symbian internal, published all or published partners, and status information that is if the API is released, depricated or unspecified etc.

Use COMPARERELEASE to check the compatibility of the code in the current database or across databases.

> cdb compare <baseconfig> -a <alt db> <derivedconfig> [-r <report>] [-x <xsl_doc>] [-f <apilevel>]

where:

• <baseconfig> is the configuration that establishes the compatibility standard

• -a <alt db> is the full path to the second database against which comparisons will be made.

• <derivedconfig> is the configuration that is to be tested for compatbility with the <baseconfig>

• -r <report> is the report prefix to use for generated reports

• -x <xsl_doc> is the name of the xslt document to use to transform the XML to HTML.

• -f <apilevel> is the lowest API classification which will be reported, e.g published All, internalTechnology.