Kerosene ORM: a dynamic, configuration-less and self-adaptive ORM for POCO objects supporting a SQL-like syntax from C#

// ======================================================== OdbcEngine.cs
namespace Kerosene.ORM.Direct.Concrete
{
	using Kerosene.Tools;
	using System;
	using System.Collections;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.Data.Common;
	using System.Data.Odbc;
	using System.Linq;
	using System.Runtime.Serialization;
	using System.Text;

	// ==================================================== 
	/// <summary>
	/// Represents a generic ODBC database in a direct connection scenario.
	/// </summary>
	public class OdbcEngine : Core.Concrete.OdbcEngine, IDataEngine
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Initializes a new engine.
		/// </summary>
		public OdbcEngine() : base() { }

		/// <summary>
		/// Invoked to obtain a string with identification of this string for representation
		/// purposes.
		/// </summary>
		protected override string ToStringType()
		{
			return "Direct" + base.ToStringType();
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Returns a new instance that is a copy of the original one.
		/// </summary>
		/// <returns>A new instance.</returns>
		public new OdbcEngine Clone()
		{
			var cloned = new OdbcEngine();
			OnClone(cloned, null); return cloned;
		}
		IDataEngine IDataEngine.Clone()
		{
			return this.Clone();
		}
		Core.IDataEngine Core.IDataEngine.Clone()
		{
			return this.Clone();
		}
		object ICloneable.Clone()
		{
			return this.Clone();
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Returns a new instance that is a copy of the original one.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="settings">A dictionary containing the names of the properties whose
		/// values are to be changed with respect to the original instance, or null to not
		/// modify any of those.</param>
		/// <returns>A new instance.</returns>
		public new OdbcEngine Clone(IDictionary<string, object> settings)
		{
			var cloned = new OdbcEngine();
			OnClone(cloned, settings); return cloned;
		}
		IDataEngine IDataEngine.Clone(IDictionary<string, object> settings)
		{
			return this.Clone(settings);
		}
		Core.IDataEngine Core.IDataEngine.Clone(IDictionary<string, object> settings)
		{
			return this.Clone(settings);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Gets the provider factory associated with this engine.
		/// </summary>
		public OdbcFactory ProviderFactory
		{
			get { return OdbcFactory.Instance; }
		}
		DbProviderFactory Direct.IDataEngine.ProviderFactory
		{
			get { return this.ProviderFactory; }
		}
	}
}
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