Add MySqlDataReader.GetX(string column)

[caspChristian]

It seems that only GetX(int ordinal) is implemented while Oracles connector implements string column variants for most if not all of the Get methods. Is there any specific reason for this that I have not been able to find?

[bgrainger]

Connector/NET adds GetX(string column) methods (that aren't part of the DbDataReader API). The implementation should be fairly simple:

GetInt16(string name) => GetInt16(GetOrdinal(name));
GetInt32(string name) => GetInt32(GetOrdinal(name));
GetInt64(string name) => GetInt64(GetOrdinal(name));
// etc.

[caspChristian]

Yep, not hard to implement, just wondered if there was any particular reason for it not to be that I had missed.

So in accordance with "Cloning the full API of Connector/NET is not a goal of this project, although it will try not to be gratuitously incompatible. For common scenarios, this package should be a drop-in replacement." ... this should be nice to have (if anyone are up to implementing it) also as I understands the tags: "enhancement", "up for grabs" ;)

[bgrainger]

No reason for them not to be implemented; just no one's asked for them before. 😀

(I've never used them; most ORMs seem to use the ordinal-based variants, which would be a little more efficient.)

[bgrainger]

Added in 0.36.0.