samedi 18 juillet 2015

Handling variable columns in SQLite

When writing applications that manage data, it is often useful to allow the end user to create or remove classes of data that are best represented as columns. For example, I'm working on a dictionary building application; a user might decide they want to add, say, an "alternate spelling" field or something to data, which could be very easily represented as another column.

Usually, I just name the column based on whatever the user called it ("alternate_spelling" in this case); however, a user-defined string that isn't explicitly sanitized as a database identifier bothers me. Since column names can't be bound like values, I'm trying to figure out how to sanitize the column names.

So my question is: what should I be doing? Can I get away with just quoting things? There's lots of questions asking how to bind column names in SQL, and many responses saying one should never need to, but never explaining the correct approach to handling variable columns. I'm working in Python specifically, but I think this question is more general.

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