How to use events on an Embedded Firebird database connection?

Question

If I connect to an embedded Firebird database, and create a remote event, I get System.NotSupportedException: Specified method is not supported.. on the constructor.

_fbRemoteEvent = new FbRemoteEvent(_fbConnection);  //_fbConnection is valid and Opened

Looking at source code from call stack, it leads to FesDatabase.cs with

RemoteEvent IDatabase.CreateEvent()
{
    throw new NotSupportedException();
}

I use the embedded version for automated tests purpose ... Is there something I can do to get event from the embedded database in a test context?

Answer 1

Events are unfortunately not supported in embedded mode in Firebird -- they can only be run over the network. This is due to the fact that the whole protocol of setting up an event handler involves setting up a second network connection to the FB server -- as you're not using a network connection at all in embedded mode, this won't work.

Answer 2

Events are supported in Firebird Embedded, but the Firebird ado.net provider (FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient) does not implement support for events when using Firebird Embedded.