73df4b22477525c05614cff79595806231dd64ed
hiram
  Mon Jan 19 14:03:15 2026 -0800
starting the hgcentral table ottoRequest to record lift over request refs #31811

diff --git src/hg/inc/ottoRequest.h src/hg/inc/ottoRequest.h
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+/* ottoRequest.h was originally generated by the autoSql program, which also 
+ * generated ottoRequest.c and ottoRequest.sql.  This header links the database and
+ * the RAM representation of objects. */
+
+#ifndef OTTOREQUEST_H
+#define OTTOREQUEST_H
+
+#include "jksql.h"
+#define OTTOREQUEST_NUM_COLS 6
+
+extern char *ottoRequestCommaSepFieldNames;
+
+struct ottoRequest
+/* recording requests coming from from functions such as liftRequest */
+    {
+    struct ottoRequest *next;  /* Next in singly linked list. */
+    unsigned id;	/* Auto-incrementing request count */
+    char *fromDb;	/* can be a database name or a GC[AF]_ GenArk accession */
+    char *toDb;	/* can be a database name or a GC[AF]_ GenArk accession */
+    char *email;	/* user email address */
+    char *comment;	/* other comments from the input form */
+    char *requestTime;	/* date time request was added */
+    };
+
+void ottoRequestStaticLoad(char **row, struct ottoRequest *ret);
+/* Load a row from ottoRequest table into ret.  The contents of ret will
+ * be replaced at the next call to this function. */
+
+struct ottoRequest *ottoRequestLoadByQuery(struct sqlConnection *conn, char *query);
+/* Load all ottoRequest from table that satisfy the query given.  
+ * Where query is of the form 'select * from example where something=something'
+ * or 'select example.* from example, anotherTable where example.something = 
+ * anotherTable.something'.
+ * Dispose of this with ottoRequestFreeList(). */
+
+void ottoRequestSaveToDb(struct sqlConnection *conn, struct ottoRequest *el, char *tableName, int updateSize);
+/* Save ottoRequest as a row to the table specified by tableName. 
+ * As blob fields may be arbitrary size updateSize specifies the approx size
+ * of a string that would contain the entire query. Arrays of native types are
+ * converted to comma separated strings and loaded as such, User defined types are
+ * inserted as NULL. This function automatically escapes quoted strings for mysql. */
+
+struct ottoRequest *ottoRequestLoad(char **row);
+/* Load a ottoRequest from row fetched with select * from ottoRequest
+ * from database.  Dispose of this with ottoRequestFree(). */
+
+struct ottoRequest *ottoRequestLoadAll(char *fileName);
+/* Load all ottoRequest from whitespace-separated file.
+ * Dispose of this with ottoRequestFreeList(). */
+
+struct ottoRequest *ottoRequestLoadAllByChar(char *fileName, char chopper);
+/* Load all ottoRequest from chopper separated file.
+ * Dispose of this with ottoRequestFreeList(). */
+
+#define ottoRequestLoadAllByTab(a) ottoRequestLoadAllByChar(a, '\t');
+/* Load all ottoRequest from tab separated file.
+ * Dispose of this with ottoRequestFreeList(). */
+
+struct ottoRequest *ottoRequestCommaIn(char **pS, struct ottoRequest *ret);
+/* Create a ottoRequest out of a comma separated string. 
+ * This will fill in ret if non-null, otherwise will
+ * return a new ottoRequest */
+
+void ottoRequestFree(struct ottoRequest **pEl);
+/* Free a single dynamically allocated ottoRequest such as created
+ * with ottoRequestLoad(). */
+
+void ottoRequestFreeList(struct ottoRequest **pList);
+/* Free a list of dynamically allocated ottoRequest's */
+
+void ottoRequestOutput(struct ottoRequest *el, FILE *f, char sep, char lastSep);
+/* Print out ottoRequest.  Separate fields with sep. Follow last field with lastSep. */
+
+#define ottoRequestTabOut(el,f) ottoRequestOutput(el,f,'\t','\n');
+/* Print out ottoRequest as a line in a tab-separated file. */
+
+#define ottoRequestCommaOut(el,f) ottoRequestOutput(el,f,',',',');
+/* Print out ottoRequest as a comma separated list including final comma. */
+
+void ottoRequestJsonOutput(struct ottoRequest *el, FILE *f);
+/* Print out ottoRequest in JSON format. */
+
+/* -------------------------------- End autoSql Generated Code -------------------------------- */
+
+#endif /* OTTOREQUEST_H */
+