Adding upstream version 4:7.4.7.upstream/4%7.4.7upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

38 files changed, 8825 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabAddressBook.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabAddressBook.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..02d4faf74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabAddressBook.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,249 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "MacabAddressBook.hxx"
+#include "MacabRecords.hxx"
+#include "MacabGroup.hxx"
+
+#include <vector>
+
+#include <premac.h>
+#include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
+#include <AddressBook/ABAddressBookC.h>
+#include <postmac.h>
+#include <connectivity/CommonTools.hxx>
+
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::uno;
+
+namespace {
+
+void manageDuplicateGroups(std::vector<MacabGroup *> _xGroups)
+{
+    /* If we have two cases of groups, say, family, this makes it:
+     * family
+     * family (2)
+     */
+    std::vector<MacabGroup *>::reverse_iterator iter1, iter2;
+    sal_Int32 count;
+
+    for(iter1 = _xGroups.rbegin(); iter1 != _xGroups.rend(); ++iter1)
+    {
+        /* If the name matches the default table name, there is already
+         * (obviously) a conflict. So, start the count of groups with this
+         * name at 2 instead of 1.
+         */
+        if( (*iter1)->getName() == MacabAddressBook::getDefaultTableName() )
+            count = 2;
+        else
+            count = 1;
+
+        iter2 = iter1;
+        for( ++iter2; iter2 != _xGroups.rend(); ++iter2)
+        {
+            if( (*iter1)->getName() == (*iter2)->getName() )
+            {
+                count++;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // duplicate!
+        if(count != 1)
+        {
+            OUString sName = (*iter1)->getName() + " (" +
+                OUString::number(count) +
+                ")";
+            (*iter1)->setName(sName);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+}
+
+MacabAddressBook::MacabAddressBook( )
+ : m_aAddressBook(ABGetSharedAddressBook()),
+   m_xMacabRecords(nullptr),
+   m_bRetrievedGroups(false)
+{
+    if(m_aAddressBook == nullptr)
+    {
+        // TODO: tell the user to reset the permission via "tccutil reset AddressBook"
+        // or the system preferences and try again, this time granting the access
+        throw RuntimeException(
+            "failed to access the macOS address book - permission not granted?" );
+    }
+}
+
+
+MacabAddressBook::~MacabAddressBook()
+{
+    if(m_xMacabRecords != nullptr)
+    {
+        delete m_xMacabRecords;
+        m_xMacabRecords = nullptr;
+    }
+
+    for(MacabGroup* pMacabGroup : m_xMacabGroups)
+        delete pMacabGroup;
+
+    m_bRetrievedGroups = false;
+}
+
+
+/* Get the address book's default table name. This is the table name that
+ * refers to the table containing _all_ records in the address book.
+ */
+const OUString & MacabAddressBook::getDefaultTableName()
+{
+    /* This string probably needs to be localized. */
+    static const OUString aDefaultTableName
+        (OUString("Address Book"));
+
+    return aDefaultTableName;
+}
+
+
+MacabRecords *MacabAddressBook::getMacabRecords()
+{
+    /* If the MacabRecords don't exist, create them. */
+    if(m_xMacabRecords == nullptr)
+    {
+        m_xMacabRecords = new MacabRecords(m_aAddressBook);
+        m_xMacabRecords->setName(getDefaultTableName());
+        m_xMacabRecords->initialize();
+    }
+
+    return m_xMacabRecords;
+}
+
+
+/* Get the MacabRecords for a given name: either a group name or the
+ * default table name.
+ */
+MacabRecords *MacabAddressBook::getMacabRecords(std::u16string_view _tableName)
+{
+    if(_tableName == getDefaultTableName())
+    {
+        return getMacabRecords();
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        return getMacabGroup(_tableName);
+    }
+}
+
+
+MacabRecords *MacabAddressBook::getMacabRecordsMatch(const OUString& _tableName)
+{
+    if(match(_tableName, getDefaultTableName(), '\0'))
+    {
+        return getMacabRecords();
+    }
+
+    return getMacabGroupMatch(_tableName);
+}
+
+
+std::vector<MacabGroup *> MacabAddressBook::getMacabGroups()
+{
+    /* If the MacabGroups haven't been created yet, create them. */
+    if(!m_bRetrievedGroups)
+    {
+        /* If the MacabRecords haven't been created yet, create them. */
+        if(m_xMacabRecords == nullptr)
+        {
+            m_xMacabRecords = new MacabRecords(m_aAddressBook);
+            m_xMacabRecords->setName(getDefaultTableName());
+            m_xMacabRecords->initialize();
+        }
+
+        CFArrayRef allGroups = ABCopyArrayOfAllGroups(m_aAddressBook);
+        sal_Int32 nGroups = CFArrayGetCount(allGroups);
+        m_xMacabGroups = std::vector<MacabGroup *>(nGroups);
+
+        sal_Int32 i;
+        ABGroupRef xGroup;
+
+        /* Go through each group and create a MacabGroup out of it. */
+        for(i = 0; i < nGroups; i++)
+        {
+            xGroup = static_cast<ABGroupRef>(const_cast<void *>(CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(allGroups, i)));
+            m_xMacabGroups[i] = new MacabGroup(m_aAddressBook, m_xMacabRecords, xGroup);
+        }
+
+        CFRelease(allGroups);
+
+        /* Manage duplicates. */
+        manageDuplicateGroups(m_xMacabGroups);
+        m_bRetrievedGroups = true;
+    }
+
+    return m_xMacabGroups;
+}
+
+
+MacabGroup *MacabAddressBook::getMacabGroup(std::u16string_view _groupName)
+{
+    // initialize groups if not already initialized
+    if(!m_bRetrievedGroups)
+        getMacabGroups();
+
+    sal_Int32 nGroups = m_xMacabGroups.size();
+    sal_Int32 i;
+
+    for(i = 0; i < nGroups; i++)
+    {
+        if(m_xMacabGroups[i] != nullptr)
+        {
+            if(m_xMacabGroups[i]->getName() == _groupName)
+            {
+                return m_xMacabGroups[i];
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+
+MacabGroup *MacabAddressBook::getMacabGroupMatch(OUString const & _groupName)
+{
+    // initialize groups if not already initialized
+    if(!m_bRetrievedGroups)
+        getMacabGroups();
+
+    sal_Int32 nGroups = m_xMacabGroups.size();
+    sal_Int32 i;
+
+    for(i = 0; i < nGroups; i++)
+    {
+        if(m_xMacabGroups[i] != nullptr)
+        {
+            if(match(m_xMacabGroups[i]->getName(), _groupName, '\0'))
+            {
+                return m_xMacabGroups[i];
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabAddressBook.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabAddressBook.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a23e0c1eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabAddressBook.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "MacabRecords.hxx"
+#include "MacabGroup.hxx"
+
+#include <string_view>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include <premac.h>
+#include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
+#include <AddressBook/ABAddressBookC.h>
+#include <postmac.h>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+        class MacabAddressBook
+        {
+            protected:
+                ABAddressBookRef m_aAddressBook;
+                MacabRecords *m_xMacabRecords;
+                std::vector<MacabGroup *> m_xMacabGroups;
+                bool m_bRetrievedGroups;
+
+            public:
+                MacabAddressBook();
+                ~MacabAddressBook();
+                static const OUString & getDefaultTableName();
+
+                MacabRecords *getMacabRecords();
+                std::vector<MacabGroup *> getMacabGroups();
+
+                MacabGroup *getMacabGroup(std::u16string_view _groupName);
+                MacabRecords *getMacabRecords(std::u16string_view _tableName);
+
+                MacabGroup *getMacabGroupMatch(const OUString& _groupName);
+                MacabRecords *getMacabRecordsMatch(const OUString& _tableName);
+        };
+
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabCatalog.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabCatalog.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..96ff62fd5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabCatalog.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "MacabCatalog.hxx"
+#include "MacabConnection.hxx"
+#include "MacabTables.hxx"
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XRow.hpp>
+
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::uno;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::beans;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::sdbcx;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::sdbc;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::container;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::lang;
+using namespace ::cppu;
+
+
+MacabCatalog::MacabCatalog(MacabConnection* _pCon)
+        : connectivity::sdbcx::OCatalog(_pCon),
+          m_pConnection(_pCon)
+{
+}
+
+void MacabCatalog::refreshTables()
+{
+    ::std::vector< OUString> aVector;
+    Sequence< OUString > aTypes { "%" };
+    Reference< XResultSet > xResult = m_xMetaData->getTables(
+        Any(), "%", "%", aTypes);
+
+    if (xResult.is())
+    {
+        Reference< XRow > xRow(xResult,UNO_QUERY);
+        OUString aName;
+        // const OUString& sDot = MacabCatalog::getDot();
+
+        while (xResult->next())
+        {
+            // aName = xRow->getString(2);
+            // aName += sDot;
+            aName = xRow->getString(3);
+            aVector.push_back(aName);
+        }
+    }
+    if (m_pTables)
+        m_pTables->reFill(aVector);
+    else
+        m_pTables.reset( new MacabTables(m_xMetaData,*this,m_aMutex,aVector) );
+}
+
+void MacabCatalog::refreshViews()
+{
+}
+
+void MacabCatalog::refreshGroups()
+{
+}
+
+void MacabCatalog::refreshUsers()
+{
+}
+
+const OUString& MacabCatalog::getDot()
+{
+    static const OUString sDot = ".";
+    return sDot;
+}
+
+
+// XTablesSupplier
+Reference< XNameAccess > SAL_CALL MacabCatalog::getTables(  )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard(m_aMutex);
+    checkDisposed(rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    try
+    {
+        if (!m_pTables)
+            refreshTables();
+    }
+    catch( const RuntimeException& )
+    {
+        // allowed to leave this method
+        throw;
+    }
+    catch( const Exception& )
+    {
+        // allowed
+    }
+
+    return m_pTables.get();
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabCatalog.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabCatalog.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1757bb908
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabCatalog.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <sdbcx/VCatalog.hxx>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+        class MacabConnection;
+
+        class MacabCatalog : public connectivity::sdbcx::OCatalog
+        {
+            MacabConnection* m_pConnection;     // used to get the metadata
+
+        public:
+            explicit MacabCatalog(MacabConnection* _pCon);
+
+            MacabConnection* getConnection() const { return m_pConnection; }
+
+            static const OUString& getDot();
+
+            // implementation of the pure virtual methods
+            virtual void refreshTables() override;
+            virtual void refreshViews() override;
+            virtual void refreshGroups() override;
+            virtual void refreshUsers() override;
+
+            // XTablesSupplier
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameAccess > SAL_CALL getTables(
+                    ) override;
+        };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabColumns.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabColumns.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6a49ad1d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabColumns.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "MacabColumns.hxx"
+#include "MacabTable.hxx"
+#include "MacabTables.hxx"
+#include "MacabCatalog.hxx"
+#include <connectivity/sdbcx/VColumn.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XRow.hpp>
+
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+using namespace connectivity::sdbcx;
+using namespace connectivity;
+using namespace ::comphelper;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::uno;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::beans;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::sdbc;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::container;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::lang;
+
+
+sdbcx::ObjectType MacabColumns::createObject(const OUString& _rName)
+{
+    const Any aCatalog;
+    const OUString sCatalogName;
+    const OUString sSchemaName(m_pTable->getSchema());
+    const OUString sTableName(m_pTable->getTableName());
+    Reference< XResultSet > xResult = m_pTable->getConnection()->getMetaData()->getColumns(
+        aCatalog, sSchemaName, sTableName, _rName);
+
+    sdbcx::ObjectType xRet;
+    if (xResult.is())
+    {
+        Reference< XRow > xRow(xResult,UNO_QUERY);
+
+        while (xResult->next())
+        {
+            if (xRow->getString(4) == _rName)
+            {
+                xRet = new OColumn(
+                        _rName,
+                        xRow->getString(6),
+                        xRow->getString(13),
+                        xRow->getString(12),
+                        xRow->getInt(11),
+                        xRow->getInt(7),
+                        xRow->getInt(9),
+                        xRow->getInt(5),
+                        false,
+                        false,
+                        false,
+                        true,
+                        sCatalogName,
+                        sSchemaName,
+                        sTableName);
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    return xRet;
+}
+
+void MacabColumns::impl_refresh()
+{
+    m_pTable->refreshColumns();
+}
+
+MacabColumns::MacabColumns( MacabTable* _pTable,
+                        ::osl::Mutex& _rMutex,
+                        const ::std::vector< OUString> &_rVector)
+    : sdbcx::OCollection(*_pTable, true, _rMutex, _rVector),
+      m_pTable(_pTable)
+{
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabColumns.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabColumns.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7123af89d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabColumns.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "MacabTable.hxx"
+#include <connectivity/sdbcx/VCollection.hxx>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+        class MacabColumns : public sdbcx::OCollection
+        {
+        protected:
+            MacabTable* m_pTable;
+
+            virtual sdbcx::ObjectType createObject(const OUString& _rName) override;
+            virtual void impl_refresh() override;
+
+        public:
+            MacabColumns(   MacabTable* _pTable,
+                        ::osl::Mutex& _rMutex,
+                        const ::std::vector< OUString> &_rVector);
+        };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabConnection.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabConnection.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..eaa6cf523
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabConnection.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,316 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "MacabConnection.hxx"
+#include "MacabAddressBook.hxx"
+#include "MacabDatabaseMetaData.hxx"
+#include "MacabStatement.hxx"
+#include "MacabPreparedStatement.hxx"
+#include "MacabDriver.hxx"
+#include "MacabCatalog.hxx"
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/ColumnValue.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/TransactionIsolation.hpp>
+#include <cppuhelper/weak.hxx>
+
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+using namespace com::sun::star::uno;
+using namespace com::sun::star::lang;
+using namespace com::sun::star::beans;
+using namespace com::sun::star::sdbc;
+using namespace com::sun::star::sdbcx;
+
+IMPLEMENT_SERVICE_INFO(MacabConnection, "com.sun.star.sdbc.drivers.MacabConnection", "com.sun.star.sdbc.Connection")
+
+MacabConnection::MacabConnection(MacabDriver*   _pDriver)
+         : m_pAddressBook(nullptr),
+         m_pDriver(_pDriver)
+{
+    m_pDriver->acquire();
+}
+
+MacabConnection::~MacabConnection()
+{
+    if (!doIsClosed())
+        doClose();
+
+    m_pDriver->release();
+    m_pDriver = nullptr;
+}
+
+void MacabConnection::construct(const OUString&, const Sequence< PropertyValue >&)
+{
+    osl_atomic_increment( &m_refCount );
+
+    // get the macOS shared address book
+    m_pAddressBook = new MacabAddressBook();
+
+    osl_atomic_decrement( &m_refCount );
+}
+// XServiceInfo
+
+Reference< XStatement > SAL_CALL MacabConnection::createStatement(  )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // create a statement
+    // the statement can only be executed once
+    Reference< XStatement > xReturn = new MacabStatement(this);
+    m_aStatements.push_back(WeakReferenceHelper(xReturn));
+    return xReturn;
+}
+
+Reference< XPreparedStatement > SAL_CALL MacabConnection::prepareStatement( const OUString& _sSql )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // create a statement
+    // the statement can only be executed more than once
+    Reference< XPreparedStatement > xReturn = new MacabPreparedStatement(this, _sSql);
+    m_aStatements.push_back(WeakReferenceHelper(xReturn));
+    return xReturn;
+}
+
+Reference< XPreparedStatement > SAL_CALL MacabConnection::prepareCall( const OUString& )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // not implemented yet :-) a task to do
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabConnection::nativeSQL( const OUString& _sSql )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    // when you need to transform SQL92 to you driver specific you can do it here
+
+    return _sSql;
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabConnection::setAutoCommit( sal_Bool )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+    // here you  have to set your commit mode please have a look at the jdbc documentation to get a clear explanation
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabConnection::getAutoCommit(  )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+    // you have to distinguish which if you are in autocommit mode or not
+    // at normal case true should be fine here
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabConnection::commit(  )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // when you database does support transactions you should commit here
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabConnection::rollback(  )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // same as commit but for the other case
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabConnection::isClosed(  )
+{
+    return doIsClosed();
+}
+
+bool MacabConnection::doIsClosed()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+
+    // just simple -> we are closed when we are disposed, that means someone called dispose(); (XComponent)
+    return MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed;
+}
+
+Reference< XDatabaseMetaData > SAL_CALL MacabConnection::getMetaData(  )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // here we have to create the class with biggest interface
+    // The answer is 42 :-)
+    Reference< XDatabaseMetaData > xMetaData = m_xMetaData;
+    if (!xMetaData.is())
+    {
+        xMetaData = new MacabDatabaseMetaData(this); // need the connection because it can return it
+        m_xMetaData = xMetaData;
+    }
+
+    return xMetaData;
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabConnection::setReadOnly( sal_Bool )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // set you connection to readonly
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabConnection::isReadOnly(  )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // return if your connection to readonly
+    return false;
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabConnection::setCatalog( const OUString& )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // if your database doesn't work with catalogs you go to next method otherwise you know what to do
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabConnection::getCatalog(  )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+
+    // return your current catalog
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabConnection::setTransactionIsolation( sal_Int32 )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // set your isolation level
+    // please have a look at @see com.sun.star.sdbc.TransactionIsolation
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabConnection::getTransactionIsolation(  )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+
+    // please have a look at @see com.sun.star.sdbc.TransactionIsolation
+    return TransactionIsolation::NONE;
+}
+
+Reference< css::container::XNameAccess > SAL_CALL MacabConnection::getTypeMap(  )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // if your driver has special database types you can return it here
+
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabConnection::setTypeMap( const Reference< css::container::XNameAccess >& )
+{
+    // the other way around
+}
+
+// XCloseable
+void SAL_CALL MacabConnection::close(  )
+{
+    doClose();
+}
+
+void MacabConnection::doClose()
+{
+    {
+        ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+        checkDisposed(MacabConnection_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+    }
+    dispose();
+}
+
+// XWarningsSupplier
+Any SAL_CALL MacabConnection::getWarnings(  )
+{
+    // when you collected some warnings -> return it
+    return Any();
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabConnection::clearWarnings(  )
+{
+    // you should clear your collected warnings here
+}
+
+void MacabConnection::disposing()
+{
+    // we noticed that we should be destroyed in near future so we have to dispose our statements
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard(m_aMutex);
+
+    for (auto& rxStatement : m_aStatements)
+    {
+        Reference< XComponent > xComp(rxStatement.get(), UNO_QUERY);
+        if (xComp.is())
+            xComp->dispose();
+    }
+    m_aStatements.clear();
+
+    if (m_pAddressBook != nullptr)
+    {
+        delete m_pAddressBook;
+        m_pAddressBook = nullptr;
+    }
+
+    m_xMetaData.clear();
+
+    MacabConnection_BASE::disposing();
+}
+
+Reference< XTablesSupplier > MacabConnection::createCatalog()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+
+    Reference< XTablesSupplier > xTab = m_xCatalog;
+    if (!m_xCatalog.is())
+    {
+        xTab = new MacabCatalog(this);
+        m_xCatalog = xTab;
+    }
+    return xTab;
+}
+
+MacabAddressBook* MacabConnection::getAddressBook() const
+{
+    return m_pAddressBook;
+}
+
+extern "C" SAL_DLLPUBLIC_EXPORT void* createMacabConnection( void* _pDriver )
+{
+    // by definition, the pointer crossing library boundaries as void ptr is acquired once
+    return cppu::acquire(new MacabConnection( static_cast< MacabDriver* >( _pDriver ) ));
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabConnection.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabConnection.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dc2bfa34f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabConnection.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <connectivity/CommonTools.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XServiceInfo.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XWarningsSupplier.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XConnection.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbcx/XTablesSupplier.hpp>
+#include <cppuhelper/compbase.hxx>
+#include <TConnection.hxx>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+
+        typedef ::cppu::WeakComponentImplHelper<css::sdbc::XConnection,
+                                                css::sdbc::XWarningsSupplier,
+                                                css::lang::XServiceInfo
+                                            > OMetaConnection_BASE;
+
+        class MacabDriver;
+        class MacabAddressBook;
+
+        typedef std::vector< css::uno::WeakReferenceHelper > OWeakRefArray;
+
+        typedef connectivity::OMetaConnection MacabConnection_BASE;
+
+        class MacabConnection : public MacabConnection_BASE
+        {
+        protected:
+
+            // Data attributes
+
+            MacabAddressBook*                       m_pAddressBook; // the address book
+            MacabDriver*                            m_pDriver;      // pointer to the owning driver object
+            css::uno::Reference< css::sdbcx::XTablesSupplier>
+                                                    m_xCatalog;     // needed for the SQL interpreter
+
+        private:
+            bool doIsClosed();
+
+            void doClose();
+
+        public:
+            /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+            virtual void construct( const OUString& url,const css::uno::Sequence< css::beans::PropertyValue >& info);
+
+            explicit MacabConnection(MacabDriver* _pDriver);
+            virtual ~MacabConnection() override;
+
+            // OComponentHelper
+            virtual void SAL_CALL disposing() override;
+
+            // XServiceInfo
+            DECLARE_SERVICE_INFO();
+
+            // XConnection
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XStatement > SAL_CALL createStatement(  ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XPreparedStatement > SAL_CALL prepareStatement( const OUString& sql ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XPreparedStatement > SAL_CALL prepareCall( const OUString& sql ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL nativeSQL( const OUString& sql ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setAutoCommit( sal_Bool autoCommit ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL getAutoCommit(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL commit(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL rollback(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isClosed(  ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XDatabaseMetaData > SAL_CALL getMetaData(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setReadOnly( sal_Bool readOnly ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isReadOnly(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setCatalog( const OUString& catalog ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getCatalog(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setTransactionIsolation( sal_Int32 level ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getTransactionIsolation(  ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameAccess > SAL_CALL getTypeMap(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setTypeMap( const css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameAccess >& typeMap ) override;
+
+            // XCloseable
+            virtual void SAL_CALL close(  ) override;
+
+            // XWarningsSupplier
+            virtual css::uno::Any SAL_CALL getWarnings(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL clearWarnings(  ) override;
+
+            // needed for the SQL interpreter
+            css::uno::Reference< css::sdbcx::XTablesSupplier > createCatalog();
+
+            // accessors
+            MacabDriver*         getDriver()         const { return m_pDriver;}
+                   MacabAddressBook* getAddressBook()   const;
+        };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabDatabaseMetaData.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabDatabaseMetaData.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b54b844c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabDatabaseMetaData.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,1073 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "MacabDatabaseMetaData.hxx"
+#include "MacabAddressBook.hxx"
+#include "MacabHeader.hxx"
+#include "MacabGroup.hxx"
+#include "macabutilities.hxx"
+
+#include "MacabDriver.hxx"
+#include <FDatabaseMetaDataResultSet.hxx>
+#include <OTypeInfo.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/ColumnSearch.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/ColumnValue.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/ResultSetType.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/SQLException.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/TransactionIsolation.hpp>
+#include <rtl/ref.hxx>
+
+#include <vector>
+
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+using namespace com::sun::star::uno;
+using namespace com::sun::star::lang;
+using namespace com::sun::star::beans;
+using namespace com::sun::star::sdbc;
+
+MacabDatabaseMetaData::MacabDatabaseMetaData(MacabConnection* _pCon)
+        : m_xConnection(_pCon),
+          m_bUseCatalog(true)
+{
+    OSL_ENSURE(_pCon,"MacabDatabaseMetaData::MacabDatabaseMetaData: No connection set!");
+
+    osl_atomic_increment( &m_refCount );
+    m_bUseCatalog   = !(usesLocalFiles() || usesLocalFilePerTable());
+    osl_atomic_decrement( &m_refCount );
+}
+
+MacabDatabaseMetaData::~MacabDatabaseMetaData()
+{
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getCatalogSeparator(  )
+{
+    if (m_bUseCatalog)
+    { // do some special here for you database
+    }
+
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxBinaryLiteralLength(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxRowSize(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxCatalogNameLength(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxCharLiteralLength(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxColumnNameLength(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxColumnsInIndex(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxCursorNameLength(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxConnections(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxColumnsInTable(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxStatementLength(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxTableNameLength(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxTablesInSelect(  )
+{
+    // MaxTablesInSelect describes how many tables can participate in the FROM part of a given SELECT statement,
+    // currently, the resultset/statement implementations can cope with one table only
+    return 1;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::doesMaxRowSizeIncludeBlobs(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::storesLowerCaseQuotedIdentifiers(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::storesLowerCaseIdentifiers(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::storesMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::storesMixedCaseIdentifiers(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::storesUpperCaseQuotedIdentifiers(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::storesUpperCaseIdentifiers(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsAlterTableWithAddColumn(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsAlterTableWithDropColumn(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxIndexLength(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsNonNullableColumns(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getCatalogTerm(  )
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getIdentifierQuoteString(  )
+{
+    // normally this is "
+    return "\"";
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getExtraNameCharacters(  )
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsDifferentTableCorrelationNames(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::isCatalogAtStart(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::dataDefinitionIgnoredInTransactions(  )
+{
+    return true;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::dataDefinitionCausesTransactionCommit(  )
+{
+    return true;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsDataManipulationTransactionsOnly(  )
+{
+    return true;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsDataDefinitionAndDataManipulationTransactions(  )
+{
+    return true;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsPositionedDelete(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsPositionedUpdate(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsOpenStatementsAcrossRollback(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsOpenStatementsAcrossCommit(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsOpenCursorsAcrossCommit(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsOpenCursorsAcrossRollback(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsTransactionIsolationLevel( sal_Int32 )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsSchemasInDataManipulation(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsANSI92FullSQL(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsANSI92EntryLevelSQL(  )
+{
+    return true; // should be supported at least
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsIntegrityEnhancementFacility(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsSchemasInIndexDefinitions(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsSchemasInTableDefinitions(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsCatalogsInTableDefinitions(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsCatalogsInIndexDefinitions(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsCatalogsInDataManipulation(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsOuterJoins(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxStatements(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxProcedureNameLength(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxSchemaNameLength(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsTransactions(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::allProceduresAreCallable(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsStoredProcedures(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsSelectForUpdate(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::allTablesAreSelectable(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::isReadOnly(  )
+{
+    // for the moment, we have read-only addresses, but this might change in the future
+    return true;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::usesLocalFiles(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::usesLocalFilePerTable(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsTypeConversion(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::nullPlusNonNullIsNull(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsColumnAliasing(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsTableCorrelationNames(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsConvert( sal_Int32, sal_Int32 )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsExpressionsInOrderBy(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsGroupBy(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsGroupByBeyondSelect(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsGroupByUnrelated(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsMultipleTransactions(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsMultipleResultSets(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsLikeEscapeClause(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsOrderByUnrelated(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsUnion(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsUnionAll(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsMixedCaseIdentifiers(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::nullsAreSortedAtEnd(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::nullsAreSortedAtStart(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::nullsAreSortedHigh(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::nullsAreSortedLow(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsSchemasInProcedureCalls(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsSchemasInPrivilegeDefinitions(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsCatalogsInProcedureCalls(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsCatalogsInPrivilegeDefinitions(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsCorrelatedSubqueries(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsSubqueriesInComparisons(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsSubqueriesInExists(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsSubqueriesInIns(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsSubqueriesInQuantifieds(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsANSI92IntermediateSQL(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getURL(  )
+{
+    // if someday we support more than the default address book,
+    // this method should return the URL which was used to create it
+    return "sdbc:address:macab:";
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getUserName(  )
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getDriverName(  )
+{
+    return "macab";
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getDriverVersion()
+{
+    return MACAB_DRIVER_VERSION;
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getDatabaseProductVersion(  )
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getDatabaseProductName(  )
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getProcedureTerm(  )
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getSchemaTerm(  )
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getDriverMajorVersion(  )
+{
+    return MACAB_DRIVER_VERSION_MAJOR;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getDefaultTransactionIsolation(  )
+{
+    return TransactionIsolation::NONE;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getDriverMinorVersion(  )
+{
+    return MACAB_DRIVER_VERSION_MINOR;
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getSQLKeywords(  )
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getSearchStringEscape(  )
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getStringFunctions(  )
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getTimeDateFunctions(  )
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getSystemFunctions(  )
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getNumericFunctions(  )
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsExtendedSQLGrammar(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsCoreSQLGrammar(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsMinimumSQLGrammar(  )
+{
+    return true;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsFullOuterJoins(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsLimitedOuterJoins(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxColumnsInGroupBy(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxColumnsInOrderBy(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxColumnsInSelect(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getMaxUserNameLength(  )
+{
+    return 0; // 0 means no limit
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsResultSetType( sal_Int32 setType )
+{
+    switch (setType)
+    {
+        case ResultSetType::FORWARD_ONLY:
+        case ResultSetType::SCROLL_INSENSITIVE:
+            return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsResultSetConcurrency( sal_Int32 setType, sal_Int32 )
+{
+    switch (setType)
+    {
+        case ResultSetType::FORWARD_ONLY:
+        case ResultSetType::SCROLL_INSENSITIVE:
+            return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::ownUpdatesAreVisible( sal_Int32 )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::ownDeletesAreVisible( sal_Int32 )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::ownInsertsAreVisible( sal_Int32 )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::othersUpdatesAreVisible( sal_Int32 )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::othersDeletesAreVisible( sal_Int32 )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::othersInsertsAreVisible( sal_Int32 )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::updatesAreDetected( sal_Int32 )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::deletesAreDetected( sal_Int32 )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::insertsAreDetected( sal_Int32 )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::supportsBatchUpdates(  )
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+Reference< XConnection > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getConnection(  )
+{
+    return m_xConnection;
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getTableTypes(  )
+{
+    rtl::Reference<::connectivity::ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet> pResult = new ::connectivity::ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet(ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eTableTypes);
+
+    static ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::ORows aRows = []
+    {
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral aTable = u"TABLE";
+        ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::ORows tmp;
+        ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::ORow aRow(2);
+        aRow[0] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[1] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(OUString(aTable));
+        tmp.push_back(aRow);
+        return tmp;
+    }();
+    pResult->setRows(std::vector(aRows));
+    return pResult;
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getTypeInfo(  )
+{
+    rtl::Reference<ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet> pResult = new ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet(ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eTypeInfo);
+
+    static ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::ORows aRows = []()
+    {
+        ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::ORows tmp;
+        ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::ORow aRow(19);
+
+        // We support four types: char, timestamp, integer, float
+        aRow[0] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[1] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(OUString("CHAR"));
+        aRow[2] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(DataType::CHAR);
+        aRow[3] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sal_Int32(254));
+        aRow[4] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getQuoteValue();
+        aRow[5] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getQuoteValue();
+        aRow[6] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[7] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sal_Int32(ColumnValue::NULLABLE));
+        aRow[8] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::get1Value();
+        aRow[9] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sal_Int32(ColumnSearch::CHAR));
+        aRow[10] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::get1Value();
+        aRow[11] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::get0Value();
+        aRow[12] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::get0Value();
+        aRow[13] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[14] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::get0Value();
+        aRow[15] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::get0Value();
+        aRow[16] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[17] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[18] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sal_Int32(10));
+
+        tmp.push_back(aRow);
+
+        aRow[1] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(OUString("TIMESTAMP"));
+        aRow[2] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(DataType::TIMESTAMP);
+        aRow[3] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sal_Int32(19));
+        aRow[4] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getQuoteValue();
+        aRow[5] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getQuoteValue();
+        tmp.push_back(aRow);
+
+        aRow[1] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(OUString("INTEGER"));
+        aRow[2] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(DataType::INTEGER);
+        aRow[3] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sal_Int32(20));
+        aRow[15] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sal_Int32(20));
+        tmp.push_back(aRow);
+
+        aRow[1] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(OUString("FLOAT"));
+        aRow[2] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(DataType::FLOAT);
+        aRow[3] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sal_Int32(20));
+        aRow[15] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sal_Int32(15));
+        tmp.push_back(aRow);
+
+        return tmp;
+    }();
+    pResult->setRows(std::vector(aRows));
+    return pResult;
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getCatalogs(  )
+{
+    return new ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet( ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eCatalogs );
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getSchemas(  )
+{
+    return new ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet( ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eSchemas );
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getColumnPrivileges(
+    const Any&, const OUString&, const OUString&,
+    const OUString& )
+{
+    return new ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet( ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eColumnPrivileges );
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getColumns(
+    const Any&,
+    const OUString&,
+    const OUString& tableNamePattern,
+    const OUString& columnNamePattern)
+{
+    rtl::Reference<::connectivity::ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet> pResult = new ::connectivity::ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet(::connectivity::ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eColumns);
+    MacabRecords *aRecords;
+    OUString sTableName;
+
+    aRecords = m_xConnection->getAddressBook()->getMacabRecordsMatch(tableNamePattern);
+
+    ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::ORows aRows;
+    if(aRecords != nullptr)
+    {
+        MacabHeader *aHeader = aRecords->getHeader();
+        sTableName = aRecords->getName();
+
+        ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::ORow aRow(19);
+
+        aRow[0] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[1] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[2] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[3] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sTableName);
+        aRow[8] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[9] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::get0Value();
+        aRow[10] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sal_Int32(10));
+        aRow[11] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::get1Value();
+        aRow[12] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[13] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[14] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[15] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[16] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sal_Int32(254));
+        aRow[18] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(OUString("YES"));
+
+        sal_Int32 nPosition = 1;
+        OUString sName;
+
+        MacabHeader::iterator aField;
+
+        for (   aField = aHeader->begin();
+                aField != aHeader->end();
+                ++aField, ++nPosition)
+        {
+
+            sName = CFStringToOUString(static_cast<CFStringRef>((*aField)->value));
+            if (match(columnNamePattern, sName, '\0'))
+            {
+                aRow[4] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sName);
+                aRow[17] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(nPosition);
+                switch((*aField)->type)
+                {
+                    case kABStringProperty:
+                        aRow[5] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(DataType::CHAR);
+                        aRow[6] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(OUString("CHAR"));
+                        aRow[7] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sal_Int32(256));
+                        aRows.push_back(aRow);
+                        break;
+                    case kABDateProperty:
+                        aRow[5] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(DataType::TIMESTAMP);
+                        aRow[6] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(OUString("TIMESTAMP"));
+                        aRows.push_back(aRow);
+                        break;
+                    case kABIntegerProperty:
+                        aRow[5] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(DataType::INTEGER);
+                        aRow[6] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(OUString("INTEGER"));
+                        aRow[7] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sal_Int32(20));
+                        aRows.push_back(aRow);
+                        break;
+                    case kABRealProperty:
+                        aRow[5] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(DataType::FLOAT);
+                        aRow[6] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(OUString("FLOAT"));
+                        aRow[7] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sal_Int32(15));
+                        aRows.push_back(aRow);
+                        break;
+                    default:
+                        ;
+                        // shouldn't happen -- throw an error...?
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    pResult->setRows(std::move(aRows));
+    return pResult;
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getTables(
+    const Any&,
+    const OUString&,
+    const OUString&,
+    const Sequence< OUString >& types)
+{
+    rtl::Reference<ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet> pResult = new ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet(::connectivity::ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eTables);
+
+    // check whether we have tables in the requested types
+    // for the moment, we answer only the "TABLE" table type
+    // when no types are given at all, we return all the tables
+    static constexpr OUStringLiteral aTable = u"TABLE";
+    bool bTableFound = false;
+    const OUString* p = types.getConstArray(),
+                         * pEnd = p + types.getLength();
+
+    if (p == pEnd)
+    {
+        bTableFound = true;
+    }
+    else while (p < pEnd)
+    {
+        if (match(*p, aTable, '\0'))
+        {
+            bTableFound = true;
+            break;
+        }
+        p++;
+    }
+    if (!bTableFound)
+        return pResult;
+
+    static ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::ORows aRows = [&]()
+    {
+        ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::ORows tmp;
+        ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::ORow aRow(6);
+
+        MacabRecords *xRecords = m_xConnection->getAddressBook()->getMacabRecords();
+        std::vector<MacabGroup *> xGroups = m_xConnection->getAddressBook()->getMacabGroups();
+        sal_Int32 i, nGroups;
+        nGroups = xGroups.size();
+
+        aRow[0] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[1] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[2] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[3] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(xRecords->getName());
+        aRow[4] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(OUString(aTable));
+        aRow[5] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        tmp.push_back(aRow);
+
+        for(i = 0; i < nGroups; i++)
+        {
+            aRow[3] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(xGroups[i]->getName());
+            tmp.push_back(aRow);
+        }
+        return tmp;
+    }();
+    pResult->setRows(std::vector(aRows));
+    return pResult;
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getProcedureColumns(
+    const Any&, const OUString&,
+    const OUString&, const OUString& )
+{
+    return new ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet( ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eProcedureColumns );
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getProcedures(
+    const Any&, const OUString&,
+    const OUString& )
+{
+    return new ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet( ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eProcedures );
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getVersionColumns(
+    const Any&, const OUString&, const OUString& table )
+{
+    rtl::Reference<::connectivity::ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet> pResult = new ::connectivity::ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet(::connectivity::ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eVersionColumns);
+
+    ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::ORows aRows;
+
+    if (m_xConnection->getAddressBook()->getMacabRecords(table) != nullptr)
+    {
+        ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::ORow aRow( 9 );
+
+        OUString sName = CFStringToOUString(kABModificationDateProperty);
+
+        aRow[0] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[1] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[2] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(sName);
+        aRow[3] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(DataType::TIMESTAMP);
+        aRow[4] = new ORowSetValueDecorator(OUString("TIMESTAMP"));
+
+        aRow[5] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[6] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[7] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+        aRow[8] = ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::getEmptyValue();
+
+        aRows.push_back(aRow);
+    }
+    pResult->setRows(std::move(aRows));
+    return pResult;
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getExportedKeys(
+    const Any&, const OUString&, const OUString& )
+{
+    return new ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet( ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eExportedKeys );
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getImportedKeys(
+    const Any&, const OUString&, const OUString& )
+{
+    return new ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet( ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eImportedKeys );
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getPrimaryKeys(
+    const Any&, const OUString&, const OUString& )
+{
+    return new ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet( ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::ePrimaryKeys );
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getIndexInfo(
+    const Any&, const OUString&, const OUString&,
+    sal_Bool, sal_Bool )
+{
+    return new ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet( ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eIndexInfo );
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getBestRowIdentifier(
+    const Any&, const OUString&, const OUString&, sal_Int32,
+    sal_Bool )
+{
+    return new ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet( ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eBestRowIdentifier );
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getTablePrivileges(
+    const Any&, const OUString&, const OUString& )
+{
+    return new ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet( ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eTablePrivileges );
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getCrossReference(
+    const Any&, const OUString&,
+    const OUString&, const Any&,
+    const OUString&, const OUString& )
+{
+    return new ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet( ODatabaseMetaDataResultSet::eCrossReference );
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabDatabaseMetaData::getUDTs( const Any&, const OUString&, const OUString&, const Sequence< sal_Int32 >& )
+{
+    OSL_FAIL("Not implemented yet!");
+    throw SQLException();
+}
+
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabDatabaseMetaData.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabDatabaseMetaData.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..662be1c01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabDatabaseMetaData.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,195 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "MacabConnection.hxx"
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XDatabaseMetaData.hpp>
+#include <cppuhelper/implbase.hxx>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+
+        class MacabDatabaseMetaData : public ::cppu::WeakImplHelper< css::sdbc::XDatabaseMetaData>
+        {
+            rtl::Reference< MacabConnection > m_xConnection;
+            bool                                   m_bUseCatalog;
+
+        public:
+
+            MacabConnection* getOwnConnection() const { return m_xConnection.get(); }
+
+            explicit MacabDatabaseMetaData(MacabConnection* _pCon);
+            virtual ~MacabDatabaseMetaData() override;
+
+            // this interface is really BIG
+            // XDatabaseMetaData
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL allProceduresAreCallable(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL allTablesAreSelectable(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getURL(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getUserName(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isReadOnly(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL nullsAreSortedHigh(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL nullsAreSortedLow(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL nullsAreSortedAtStart(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL nullsAreSortedAtEnd(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getDatabaseProductName(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getDatabaseProductVersion(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getDriverName(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getDriverVersion(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getDriverMajorVersion(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getDriverMinorVersion(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL usesLocalFiles(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL usesLocalFilePerTable(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsMixedCaseIdentifiers(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL storesUpperCaseIdentifiers(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL storesLowerCaseIdentifiers(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL storesMixedCaseIdentifiers(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL storesUpperCaseQuotedIdentifiers(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL storesLowerCaseQuotedIdentifiers(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL storesMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getIdentifierQuoteString(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getSQLKeywords(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getNumericFunctions(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getStringFunctions(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getSystemFunctions(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getTimeDateFunctions(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getSearchStringEscape(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getExtraNameCharacters(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsAlterTableWithAddColumn(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsAlterTableWithDropColumn(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsColumnAliasing(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL nullPlusNonNullIsNull(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsTypeConversion(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsConvert( sal_Int32 fromType, sal_Int32 toType ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsTableCorrelationNames(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsDifferentTableCorrelationNames(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsExpressionsInOrderBy(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsOrderByUnrelated(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsGroupBy(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsGroupByUnrelated(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsGroupByBeyondSelect(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsLikeEscapeClause(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsMultipleResultSets(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsMultipleTransactions(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsNonNullableColumns(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsMinimumSQLGrammar(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsCoreSQLGrammar(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsExtendedSQLGrammar(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsANSI92EntryLevelSQL(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsANSI92IntermediateSQL(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsANSI92FullSQL(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsIntegrityEnhancementFacility(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsOuterJoins(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsFullOuterJoins(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsLimitedOuterJoins(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getSchemaTerm(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getProcedureTerm(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getCatalogTerm(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isCatalogAtStart(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getCatalogSeparator(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsSchemasInDataManipulation(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsSchemasInProcedureCalls(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsSchemasInTableDefinitions(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsSchemasInIndexDefinitions(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsSchemasInPrivilegeDefinitions(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsCatalogsInDataManipulation(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsCatalogsInProcedureCalls(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsCatalogsInTableDefinitions(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsCatalogsInIndexDefinitions(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsCatalogsInPrivilegeDefinitions(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsPositionedDelete(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsPositionedUpdate(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsSelectForUpdate(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsStoredProcedures(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsSubqueriesInComparisons(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsSubqueriesInExists(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsSubqueriesInIns(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsSubqueriesInQuantifieds(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsCorrelatedSubqueries(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsUnion(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsUnionAll(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsOpenCursorsAcrossCommit(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsOpenCursorsAcrossRollback(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsOpenStatementsAcrossCommit(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsOpenStatementsAcrossRollback(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxBinaryLiteralLength(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxCharLiteralLength(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxColumnNameLength(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxColumnsInGroupBy(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxColumnsInIndex(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxColumnsInOrderBy(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxColumnsInSelect(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxColumnsInTable(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxConnections(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxCursorNameLength(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxIndexLength(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxSchemaNameLength(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxProcedureNameLength(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxCatalogNameLength(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxRowSize(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL doesMaxRowSizeIncludeBlobs(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxStatementLength(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxStatements(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxTableNameLength(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxTablesInSelect(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMaxUserNameLength(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getDefaultTransactionIsolation(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsTransactions(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsTransactionIsolationLevel( sal_Int32 level ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsDataDefinitionAndDataManipulationTransactions(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsDataManipulationTransactionsOnly(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL dataDefinitionCausesTransactionCommit(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL dataDefinitionIgnoredInTransactions(  ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getProcedures( const css::uno::Any& catalog, const OUString& schemaPattern, const OUString& procedureNamePattern ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getProcedureColumns( const css::uno::Any& catalog, const OUString& schemaPattern, const OUString& procedureNamePattern, const OUString& columnNamePattern ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getTables( const css::uno::Any& catalog, const OUString& schemaPattern, const OUString& tableNamePattern, const css::uno::Sequence< OUString >& types ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getSchemas(  ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getCatalogs(  ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getTableTypes(  ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getColumns( const css::uno::Any& catalog, const OUString& schemaPattern, const OUString& tableNamePattern, const OUString& columnNamePattern ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getColumnPrivileges( const css::uno::Any& catalog, const OUString& schema, const OUString& table, const OUString& columnNamePattern ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getTablePrivileges( const css::uno::Any& catalog, const OUString& schemaPattern, const OUString& tableNamePattern ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getBestRowIdentifier( const css::uno::Any& catalog, const OUString& schema, const OUString& table, sal_Int32 scope, sal_Bool nullable ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getVersionColumns( const css::uno::Any& catalog, const OUString& schema, const OUString& table ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getPrimaryKeys( const css::uno::Any& catalog, const OUString& schema, const OUString& table ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getImportedKeys( const css::uno::Any& catalog, const OUString& schema, const OUString& table ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getExportedKeys( const css::uno::Any& catalog, const OUString& schema, const OUString& table ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getCrossReference( const css::uno::Any& primaryCatalog, const OUString& primarySchema, const OUString& primaryTable, const css::uno::Any& foreignCatalog, const OUString& foreignSchema, const OUString& foreignTable ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getTypeInfo(  ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getIndexInfo( const css::uno::Any& catalog, const OUString& schema, const OUString& table, sal_Bool unique, sal_Bool approximate ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsResultSetType( sal_Int32 setType ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsResultSetConcurrency( sal_Int32 setType, sal_Int32 concurrency ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL ownUpdatesAreVisible( sal_Int32 setType ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL ownDeletesAreVisible( sal_Int32 setType ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL ownInsertsAreVisible( sal_Int32 setType ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL othersUpdatesAreVisible( sal_Int32 setType ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL othersDeletesAreVisible( sal_Int32 setType ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL othersInsertsAreVisible( sal_Int32 setType ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL updatesAreDetected( sal_Int32 setType ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL deletesAreDetected( sal_Int32 setType ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL insertsAreDetected( sal_Int32 setType ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsBatchUpdates(  ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL getUDTs( const css::uno::Any& catalog, const OUString& schemaPattern, const OUString& typeNamePattern, const css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int32 >& types ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XConnection > SAL_CALL getConnection(  ) override;
+        };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabDriver.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabDriver.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4667c690a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabDriver.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,310 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "MacabDriver.hxx"
+#include "MacabConnection.hxx"
+
+#include <com/sun/star/sdb/SQLContext.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/NullPointerException.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/frame/Desktop.hpp>
+#include <sal/log.hxx>
+#include <tools/diagnose_ex.h>
+#include <strings.hrc>
+#include <cppuhelper/supportsservice.hxx>
+
+using namespace com::sun::star::uno;
+using namespace com::sun::star::lang;
+using namespace com::sun::star::beans;
+using namespace com::sun::star::sdbc;
+using namespace com::sun::star::sdb;
+using namespace com::sun::star::frame;
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+
+namespace {
+
+/** throws a generic SQL exception with SQLState S1000 and error code 0
+ */
+void throwGenericSQLException( const OUString& _rMessage )
+{
+    SQLException aError;
+    aError.Message = _rMessage;
+    aError.SQLState = "S1000";
+    aError.ErrorCode = 0;
+    throw aError;
+}
+
+/** throws an SQLException saying that no Mac OS installation was found
+ */
+void throwNoMacOSException()
+{
+    ::connectivity::SharedResources aResources;
+    const OUString sError( aResources.getResourceString(
+            STR_NO_MAC_OS_FOUND
+         ) );
+    throwGenericSQLException( sError );
+}
+
+
+}
+
+// = MacabImplModule
+
+
+MacabImplModule::MacabImplModule()
+    :m_bAttemptedLoadModule(false)
+    ,m_hConnectorModule(nullptr)
+    ,m_pConnectionFactoryFunc(nullptr)
+{
+}
+
+
+bool MacabImplModule::isMacOSPresent()
+{
+    return impl_loadModule();
+}
+
+
+namespace
+{
+    template< typename FUNCTION >
+    void lcl_getFunctionFromModuleOrUnload( oslModule& _rModule, const char* _pAsciiSymbolName, FUNCTION& _rFunction )
+    {
+        _rFunction = nullptr;
+        if ( _rModule )
+        {
+
+            const OUString sSymbolName = OUString::createFromAscii( _pAsciiSymbolName );
+            _rFunction = reinterpret_cast<FUNCTION>( osl_getSymbol( _rModule, sSymbolName.pData ) );
+
+            if ( !_rFunction )
+            {   // did not find the symbol
+                SAL_WARN( "connectivity.macab", "lcl_getFunctionFromModuleOrUnload: could not find the symbol " << _pAsciiSymbolName );
+                osl_unloadModule( _rModule );
+                _rModule = nullptr;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+
+extern "C" { static void thisModule() {} }
+
+bool MacabImplModule::impl_loadModule()
+{
+    if ( m_bAttemptedLoadModule )
+        return ( m_hConnectorModule != nullptr );
+    m_bAttemptedLoadModule = true;
+
+    OSL_ENSURE( !m_hConnectorModule && !m_pConnectionFactoryFunc,
+        "MacabImplModule::impl_loadModule: inconsistence: inconsistency (never attempted load before, but some values already set)!");
+
+    const OUString sModuleName( SAL_MODULENAME( "macabdrv1" ) );
+    m_hConnectorModule = osl_loadModuleRelative( &thisModule, sModuleName.pData, SAL_LOADMODULE_NOW );   // LAZY! #i61335#
+    OSL_ENSURE( m_hConnectorModule, "MacabImplModule::impl_loadModule: could not load the implementation library!" );
+    if ( !m_hConnectorModule )
+        return false;
+
+    lcl_getFunctionFromModuleOrUnload( m_hConnectorModule, "createMacabConnection",   m_pConnectionFactoryFunc );
+
+    if ( !m_hConnectorModule )
+        // one of the symbols did not exist
+        throw RuntimeException();
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+
+void MacabImplModule::impl_unloadModule()
+{
+    OSL_PRECOND( m_hConnectorModule != nullptr, "MacabImplModule::impl_unloadModule: no module!" );
+
+    osl_unloadModule( m_hConnectorModule );
+    m_hConnectorModule = nullptr;
+
+    m_pConnectionFactoryFunc = nullptr;
+
+    m_bAttemptedLoadModule = false;
+}
+
+
+void MacabImplModule::init()
+{
+    if ( !impl_loadModule() )
+        throwNoMacOSException();
+
+}
+
+
+MacabConnection* MacabImplModule::createConnection( MacabDriver* _pDriver ) const
+{
+    OSL_PRECOND( m_hConnectorModule, "MacabImplModule::createConnection: not initialized!" );
+
+    void* pUntypedConnection = (*m_pConnectionFactoryFunc)( _pDriver );
+    if ( !pUntypedConnection )
+        throw RuntimeException();
+
+    return static_cast< MacabConnection* >( pUntypedConnection );
+}
+
+
+void MacabImplModule::shutdown()
+{
+    if ( !m_hConnectorModule )
+        return;
+
+    impl_unloadModule();
+}
+
+
+// = MacabDriver
+
+MacabDriver::MacabDriver(
+    const Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext >& _rxContext)
+    : MacabDriver_BASE(m_aMutex),
+      m_xContext(_rxContext),
+      m_aImplModule()
+{
+    if ( !m_xContext.is() )
+        throw NullPointerException();
+
+    osl_atomic_increment( &m_refCount );
+    try
+    {
+        Reference< XDesktop2 > xDesktop = Desktop::create( m_xContext );
+        xDesktop->addTerminateListener( this );
+    }
+    catch( const Exception& )
+    {
+        DBG_UNHANDLED_EXCEPTION("connectivity.macab");
+    }
+    osl_atomic_decrement( &m_refCount );
+}
+
+void MacabDriver::disposing()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard(m_aMutex);
+
+    // when driver will be destroyed so all our connections have to be destroyed as well
+    for (auto& rxConnection : m_xConnections)
+    {
+        Reference< XComponent > xComp(rxConnection.get(), UNO_QUERY);
+        if (xComp.is())
+            xComp->dispose();
+    }
+    m_xConnections.clear();
+
+    WeakComponentImplHelperBase::disposing();
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabDriver::getImplementationName(  )
+{
+    return "com.sun.star.comp.sdbc.macab.Driver";
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDriver::supportsService( const OUString& _rServiceName )
+{
+    return cppu::supportsService(this, _rServiceName);
+}
+
+Sequence< OUString > SAL_CALL MacabDriver::getSupportedServiceNames(  )
+{
+    // which service is supported
+    // for more information @see com.sun.star.sdbc.Driver
+    return { "com.sun.star.sdbc.Driver" };
+}
+
+Reference< XConnection > SAL_CALL MacabDriver::connect( const OUString& url, const Sequence< PropertyValue >& info )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard(m_aMutex);
+
+    m_aImplModule.init();
+
+    // create a new connection with the given properties and append it to our vector
+    MacabConnection* pConnection = m_aImplModule.createConnection( this );
+    SAL_WARN_IF( !pConnection, "connectivity.macab", "MacabDriver::connect: no connection has been created by the factory!" );
+
+    // by definition, the factory function returned an object which was acquired once
+    Reference< XConnection > xConnection = pConnection;
+    pConnection->release();
+
+    // late constructor call which can throw exception and allows a correct dtor call when so
+    pConnection->construct( url, info );
+
+    // remember it
+    m_xConnections.push_back( WeakReferenceHelper( *pConnection ) );
+
+    return xConnection;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabDriver::acceptsURL( const OUString& url )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard(m_aMutex);
+
+    if ( !m_aImplModule.isMacOSPresent() )
+        return false;
+
+    // here we have to look whether we support this URL format
+    return url == "sdbc:address:macab";
+}
+
+Sequence< DriverPropertyInfo > SAL_CALL MacabDriver::getPropertyInfo( const OUString&, const Sequence< PropertyValue >& )
+{
+    // if you have something special to say, return it here :-)
+    return Sequence< DriverPropertyInfo >();
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDriver::getMajorVersion(  )
+{
+    return MACAB_DRIVER_VERSION_MAJOR;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabDriver::getMinorVersion(  )
+{
+    return MACAB_DRIVER_VERSION_MINOR;
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabDriver::queryTermination( const EventObject& )
+{
+    // nothing to do, nothing to veto
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabDriver::notifyTermination( const EventObject& )
+{
+    m_aImplModule.shutdown();
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabDriver::disposing( const EventObject& )
+{
+    // not interested in (this is the disposing of the desktop, if any)
+}
+
+OUString MacabDriver::impl_getConfigurationSettingsPath()
+{
+    return "/org.openoffice.Office.DataAccess/DriverSettings/com.sun.star.comp.sdbc.macab.Driver";
+}
+
+extern "C" SAL_DLLPUBLIC_EXPORT css::uno::XInterface*
+connectivity_MacabDriver_get_implementation(
+    css::uno::XComponentContext* context, css::uno::Sequence<css::uno::Any> const&)
+{
+    return cppu::acquire(new MacabDriver(context));
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabDriver.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabDriver.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d18f5e982
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabDriver.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XDriver.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XServiceInfo.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/frame/XTerminateListener.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XComponentContext.hpp>
+#include <cppuhelper/compbase.hxx>
+#include <osl/module.h>
+
+// the address book driver's version
+#define MACAB_DRIVER_VERSION        "0.1"
+#define MACAB_DRIVER_VERSION_MAJOR  0
+#define MACAB_DRIVER_VERSION_MINOR  1
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+        class MacabConnection;
+        class MacabDriver;
+
+        typedef void*   (SAL_CALL * ConnectionFactoryFunction)( void* _pDriver );
+
+        typedef std::vector< css::uno::WeakReferenceHelper > OWeakRefArray;
+
+
+        // = MacabImplModule
+
+        class MacabImplModule
+        {
+        private:
+            /// Did we already attempt to load the module and to retrieve the symbols?
+            bool    m_bAttemptedLoadModule;
+            oslModule                   m_hConnectorModule;
+            ConnectionFactoryFunction   m_pConnectionFactoryFunc;
+
+        public:
+            MacabImplModule();
+
+            /** determines whether there is a mac OS present in the environment
+            */
+            bool isMacOSPresent();
+
+            /** initializes the implementation module.
+
+                @throws css::uno::RuntimeException
+                    if the module could be loaded, but required symbols are missing
+                @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+                    if no Mac OS was found at all
+            */
+            void init();
+
+            /** shuts down the impl module
+            */
+            void shutdown();
+
+            /** creates a new connection
+                @precond
+                    <member>init</member> has been called before
+                @throws css::uno::RuntimeException
+                    if no connection object could be created (which is a severe error, normally impossible)
+            */
+            MacabConnection*  createConnection( MacabDriver* _pDriver ) const;
+
+        private:
+            /** loads the implementation module and retrieves the needed symbols
+
+                Save against being called multiple times.
+
+                @return <TRUE/> if the module could be loaded successfully.
+
+                @throws css::uno::RuntimeException
+                    if the module could be loaded, but required symbols are missing
+            */
+            bool    impl_loadModule();
+
+            /** unloads the implementation module, and resets all function pointers to <NULL/>
+                @precond m_hConnectorModule is not <NULL/>
+            */
+            void    impl_unloadModule();
+        };
+
+
+        // = MacabDriver
+
+        typedef ::cppu::WeakComponentImplHelper<   css::sdbc::XDriver,
+                                                   css::lang::XServiceInfo,
+                                                   css::frame::XTerminateListener > MacabDriver_BASE;
+        class MacabDriver : public MacabDriver_BASE
+        {
+        protected:
+            ::osl::Mutex                m_aMutex;           // mutex is need to control member access
+            OWeakRefArray               m_xConnections;     // vector containing a list of all the
+                                                            //  MacabConnection objects for this Driver
+            css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext >
+                                        m_xContext;       // the multi-service factory
+            MacabImplModule             m_aImplModule;
+
+        public:
+            css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext > const &
+            getComponentContext() const { return m_xContext; }
+
+            /** returns the path of our configuration settings
+            */
+            static OUString  impl_getConfigurationSettingsPath();
+
+            explicit MacabDriver(const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext >& _rxContext);
+        protected:
+
+            // OComponentHelper
+            virtual void SAL_CALL disposing() override;
+
+            // XServiceInfo
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getImplementationName(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL supportsService( const OUString& ServiceName ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Sequence< OUString > SAL_CALL getSupportedServiceNames(  ) override;
+
+            // XDriver
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XConnection > SAL_CALL connect( const OUString& url, const css::uno::Sequence< css::beans::PropertyValue >& info ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL acceptsURL( const OUString& url ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Sequence< css::sdbc::DriverPropertyInfo > SAL_CALL getPropertyInfo( const OUString& url, const css::uno::Sequence< css::beans::PropertyValue >& info ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMajorVersion() override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getMinorVersion() override;
+
+            // XTerminateListener
+            virtual void SAL_CALL queryTermination( const css::lang::EventObject& Event ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL notifyTermination( const css::lang::EventObject& Event ) override;
+
+            // XEventListener
+            virtual void SAL_CALL disposing( const css::lang::EventObject& Source ) override;
+
+        private:
+            /** shuts down the library which contains the real implementations
+
+                This method is safe against being called multiple times
+
+                @precond our mutex is locked
+            */
+            void impl_shutdownImplementationModule();
+        };
+
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabGroup.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabGroup.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a57f1729f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabGroup.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "MacabGroup.hxx"
+#include "MacabRecords.hxx"
+#include "macabutilities.hxx"
+
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+
+
+/* A MacabGroup is basically a MacabRecords with a different constructor.
+ * It only exists as a different entity for clarification purposes (a group
+ * is its own entity in the macOS Address Book) and because its
+ * construction is so unique (it is based on an already existent
+ * MacabRecords of the entire address book).
+ */
+MacabGroup::MacabGroup(const ABAddressBookRef _addressBook, const MacabRecords *_allRecords, const ABGroupRef _xGroup)
+    : MacabRecords(_addressBook)
+{
+    sal_Int32 i, j, nAllRecordsSize;
+    CFArrayRef xGroupMembers = ABGroupCopyArrayOfAllMembers(_xGroup);
+    ABPersonRef xPerson;
+    CFStringRef sGroupMemberUID;
+    bool bFound;
+    macabfield *xRecordField;
+
+    // Set the group's name (stored in MacabRecords as m_sName)
+    CFStringRef sGroupName;
+    sGroupName = static_cast<CFStringRef>(ABRecordCopyValue(_xGroup, kABGroupNameProperty));
+    m_sName = CFStringToOUString(sGroupName);
+    CFRelease(sGroupName);
+
+    // The _group's_ records (remember MacabGroup inherits from MacabRecords)
+    recordsSize = static_cast<sal_Int32>(CFArrayGetCount(xGroupMembers));
+    records = new MacabRecord *[recordsSize];
+    setHeader(_allRecords->getHeader());
+
+    /* Go through each record in the group and try to find that record's UID
+     * in the MacabRecords that was passed in. If it is found, add that
+     * record to the group. Otherwise, report an error. (All records should
+     * exist in the MacabRecords that was passed in.)
+     */
+    nAllRecordsSize = _allRecords->size();
+    for(i = 0; i < recordsSize; i++)
+    {
+        xPerson = static_cast<ABPersonRef>(const_cast<void *>(CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(xGroupMembers,i)));
+        if(xPerson != nullptr)
+        {
+            sGroupMemberUID = static_cast<CFStringRef>(ABRecordCopyValue(xPerson, kABUIDProperty));
+            if(sGroupMemberUID != nullptr)
+            {
+                bFound = false;
+                for(j = 0; j < nAllRecordsSize; j++)
+                {
+                    xRecordField = _allRecords->getField(j,CFStringToOUString(kABUIDProperty));
+                    if(xRecordField != nullptr && xRecordField->value != nullptr)
+                    {
+                        if(CFEqual(xRecordField->value, sGroupMemberUID))
+                        {
+                            /* Found the matching UID! Insert into the group... */
+                            insertRecord(_allRecords->getRecord(j));
+                            bFound = true;
+                            break;
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+                OSL_ENSURE(bFound, "MacabGroup::MacabGroup : Could not find group member based on UID!");
+                CFRelease(sGroupMemberUID);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    CFRelease(xGroupMembers);
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabGroup.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabGroup.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ddcd47b46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabGroup.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "MacabRecords.hxx"
+
+#include <premac.h>
+#include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
+#include <AddressBook/ABAddressBookC.h>
+#include <postmac.h>
+
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+        class MacabGroup: public MacabRecords {
+            public:
+                MacabGroup(const ABAddressBookRef _addressBook, const MacabRecords *_allRecords, const ABGroupRef _xGroup);
+        };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabHeader.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabHeader.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..da270dd05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabHeader.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,330 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "MacabHeader.hxx"
+#include "MacabRecord.hxx"
+#include "macabutilities.hxx"
+
+#include <math.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/DataType.hpp>
+#include <connectivity/dbconversion.hxx>
+
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+using namespace com::sun::star::sdbc;
+using namespace com::sun::star::util;
+using namespace ::dbtools;
+
+
+MacabHeader::MacabHeader(const sal_Int32 _size, macabfield **_fields)
+{
+    sal_Int32 i;
+    size = _size;
+    fields = std::make_unique<macabfield *[]>(size);
+    for(i = 0; i < size; i++)
+    {
+        if(_fields[i] == nullptr)
+        {
+            fields[i] = nullptr;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            /* The constructor duplicates the macabfields it gets because they
+             * are either deleted later or used for other purposes.
+             */
+            fields[i] = new macabfield;
+            fields[i]->type = _fields[i]->type;
+            fields[i]->value = _fields[i]->value;
+            if (fields[i]->value)
+                CFRetain(fields[i]->value);
+        }
+    }
+
+}
+
+
+MacabHeader::MacabHeader()
+{
+    size = 0;
+    fields = nullptr;
+}
+
+
+MacabHeader::~MacabHeader()
+{
+}
+
+
+void MacabHeader::operator+= (const MacabHeader *r)
+{
+    /* Add one MacabHeader to another. Anything not already in the header is
+     * added to the end of it.
+     */
+    sal_Int32 rSize = r->getSize();
+    if(rSize != 0) // If the new header does actually have fields
+    {
+        /* If our header is currently empty, just copy all of the fields from
+         * the new header to this one.
+         */
+        if(size == 0)
+        {
+            sal_Int32 i;
+            size = rSize;
+            fields = std::make_unique<macabfield *[]>(size);
+            for(i = 0; i < size; i++)
+            {
+                fields[i] = r->copy(i);
+            }
+        }
+
+        /* Otherwise, only add the duplicates. We do this with a two-pass
+         * approach. First, find out how many fields to add, then reallocate
+         * the size of the fields array and add the old ones at the end.
+         * (More precisely, we create a _new_ fields array with the new length
+         * allocated to it, then get all of the fields from the current
+         * fields array to it, then copy the non-duplicates from the new
+         * header to the end.)
+         */
+        else
+        {
+            sal_Int32 i;
+            sal_Int32 numToAdd = 0, numAdded = 0;
+            macabfield **newFields;
+            for( i = 0; i < rSize; i++)
+            {
+                if(!contains(r->get(i)))
+                {
+                    numToAdd++;
+                }
+            }
+
+            newFields = new macabfield *[size+numToAdd];
+            for(i = 0; i < size; i++)
+            {
+                newFields[i] = copy(i);
+            }
+
+            for( i = 0; i < rSize; i++)
+            {
+                if(!contains(r->get(i)))
+                {
+                    newFields[size+numAdded] = r->copy(i);
+                    numAdded++;
+                    if(numAdded == numToAdd)
+                        break;
+                }
+            }
+
+            releaseFields();
+            size += numAdded;
+            fields.reset(newFields);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+
+OUString MacabHeader::getString(const sal_Int32 i) const
+{
+    OUString nRet;
+
+    if(i < size)
+    {
+        if(fields[i] == nullptr || fields[i]->value == nullptr || CFGetTypeID(fields[i]->value) != CFStringGetTypeID())
+            return OUString();
+        try
+        {
+            nRet = CFStringToOUString(static_cast<CFStringRef>(fields[i]->value));
+        }
+        catch(...){ }
+    }
+
+    return nRet;
+}
+
+
+void MacabHeader::sortRecord()
+{
+    sortRecord(0,size);
+}
+
+
+macabfield **MacabHeader::sortRecord(const sal_Int32 _start, const sal_Int32 _length)
+{
+    /* Sort using mergesort. Because it uses mergesort, it is recursive and
+     * not in place (so it creates a new array at every step of the
+     * recursion), so if you prefer to use a different sort, please feel
+     * free to implement it.
+     */
+    macabfield** sorted = new macabfield *[_length];
+    if(_length <= 2)
+    {
+        if(_length == 2)
+        {
+            if(compareFields(fields[_start], fields[_start+1]) > 0)
+            {
+                sorted[0] = get(_start+1);
+                sorted[1] = get(_start);
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                sorted[0] = get(_start);
+                sorted[1] = get(_start+1);
+            }
+        }
+        else if(_length == 1)
+        {
+            sorted[0] = get(_start);
+        }
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        sal_Int32 halfLength = floor(_length/2);
+        sal_Int32 fp = 0, lp = 0;
+        sal_Int32 i;
+        macabfield **firstHalf = sortRecord(_start, halfLength);
+        macabfield **lastHalf = sortRecord(_start+halfLength, _length-halfLength);
+
+        for(i = 0; i < _length; i++)
+        {
+            if(compareFields(firstHalf[fp],lastHalf[lp]) < 0)
+            {
+                sorted[i] = firstHalf[fp++];
+                if(fp == halfLength)
+                {
+                    for( i++; i < _length; i++)
+                    {
+                        sorted[i] = lastHalf[lp++];
+                    }
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                sorted[i] = lastHalf[lp++];
+                if(lp == _length - halfLength)
+                {
+                    for( i++; i < _length; i++)
+                    {
+                        sorted[i] = firstHalf[fp++];
+                    }
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        if(_length == size)
+        {
+            fields.reset(sorted);
+        }
+        delete firstHalf;
+        delete lastHalf;
+    }
+    return sorted;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 MacabHeader::compareFields(const macabfield *_field1, const macabfield *_field2)
+{
+    /* Comparing two fields in a MacabHeader is different than comparing two
+     * fields in a MacabRecord. It starts in the same way (if one of the two
+     * fields is NULL, it belongs after the other, so it is considered
+     * "greater"). But, then, all headers are CFStrings, no matter what
+     * type they claim to be (since they actually hold the expected type for
+     * the records with that header). That being said, all we have to do is
+     * the built-in CFStringCompare.
+     */
+    if(_field1 == _field2)
+        return 0;
+    if(_field1 == nullptr)
+        return 1;
+    if(_field2 == nullptr)
+        return -1;
+
+    CFComparisonResult result = CFStringCompare(
+        static_cast<CFStringRef>(_field1->value),
+        static_cast<CFStringRef>(_field2->value),
+        0); // 0 = no options (like ignore case)
+
+    return static_cast<sal_Int32>(result);
+}
+
+
+sal_Int32 MacabHeader::getColumnNumber(std::u16string_view s) const
+{
+    sal_Int32 i;
+    for(i = 0; i < size; i++)
+    {
+        if(getString(i) == s)
+            break;
+    }
+
+    if(i == size)
+        i = -1;
+
+    return i;
+}
+
+
+MacabHeader *MacabHeader::begin()
+{
+    return this;
+}
+
+
+MacabHeader::iterator::iterator ()
+{
+}
+
+
+MacabHeader::iterator& MacabHeader::iterator::operator= (MacabHeader *_record)
+{
+    id = 0;
+    record = _record;
+    return *this;
+}
+
+
+void MacabHeader::iterator::operator++ ()
+{
+    id++;
+}
+
+
+bool MacabHeader::iterator::operator!= (const sal_Int32 i) const
+{
+    return(id != i);
+}
+
+
+bool MacabHeader::iterator::operator== (const sal_Int32 i) const
+{
+    return(id == i);
+}
+
+
+macabfield *MacabHeader::iterator::operator* () const
+{
+    return record->get(id);
+}
+
+
+sal_Int32 MacabHeader::end() const
+{
+    return size;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabHeader.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabHeader.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..24b3fc7b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabHeader.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+
+#include <string_view>
+
+#include "MacabRecord.hxx"
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+        class MacabHeader: public MacabRecord{
+            protected:
+                macabfield **sortRecord(sal_Int32 _start, sal_Int32 _length);
+            public:
+                MacabHeader();
+                MacabHeader(const sal_Int32 _size, macabfield **_fields);
+                virtual ~MacabHeader() override;
+                void operator+= (const MacabHeader *r);
+                OUString getString(const sal_Int32 i) const;
+                void sortRecord();
+                sal_Int32 getColumnNumber(std::u16string_view s) const;
+
+                static sal_Int32 compareFields(const macabfield *_field1, const macabfield *_field2);
+
+                MacabHeader *begin();
+                sal_Int32 end() const;
+                class iterator{
+                    protected:
+                        sal_Int32 id;
+                        MacabHeader *record;
+                    public:
+                        iterator& operator= (MacabHeader *_record);
+                        iterator();
+                        void operator++ ();
+                        bool operator!= (const sal_Int32 i) const;
+                        bool operator== (const sal_Int32 i) const;
+                        macabfield *operator* () const;
+                };
+        };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabPreparedStatement.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabPreparedStatement.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6d72345b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabPreparedStatement.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,343 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "MacabPreparedStatement.hxx"
+#include "MacabAddressBook.hxx"
+#include <propertyids.hxx>
+#include <connectivity/dbexception.hxx>
+#include <connectivity/dbtools.hxx>
+#include <strings.hrc>
+#include <resource/sharedresources.hxx>
+
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+using namespace com::sun::star::uno;
+using namespace com::sun::star::lang;
+using namespace com::sun::star::sdbc;
+using namespace com::sun::star::util;
+
+IMPLEMENT_SERVICE_INFO(MacabPreparedStatement, "com.sun.star.sdbc.drivers.MacabPreparedStatement", "com.sun.star.sdbc.PreparedStatement");
+
+void MacabPreparedStatement::checkAndResizeParameters(sal_Int32 nParams)
+{
+    if ( !m_aParameterRow.is() )
+        m_aParameterRow = new OValueVector();
+
+    if (nParams < 1)
+        ::dbtools::throwInvalidIndexException(*this);
+
+    if (nParams >= static_cast<sal_Int32>(m_aParameterRow->size()))
+        m_aParameterRow->resize(nParams);
+}
+
+void MacabPreparedStatement::setMacabFields() const
+{
+    ::rtl::Reference<connectivity::OSQLColumns> xColumns;   // selected columns
+
+    xColumns = m_aSQLIterator.getSelectColumns();
+    if (!xColumns.is())
+    {
+        ::connectivity::SharedResources aResources;
+        const OUString sError( aResources.getResourceString(
+                STR_INVALID_COLUMN_SELECTION
+             ) );
+        ::dbtools::throwGenericSQLException(sError,nullptr);
+    }
+    m_xMetaData->setMacabFields(xColumns);
+}
+
+void MacabPreparedStatement::resetParameters() const
+{
+    m_nParameterIndex = 0;
+}
+
+void MacabPreparedStatement::getNextParameter(OUString &rParameter) const
+{
+    if (m_nParameterIndex >= static_cast<sal_Int32>(m_aParameterRow->size()))
+    {
+        ::connectivity::SharedResources aResources;
+        const OUString sError( aResources.getResourceString(
+                STR_INVALID_PARA_COUNT
+             ) );
+        ::dbtools::throwGenericSQLException(sError,*const_cast<MacabPreparedStatement *>(this));
+    }
+
+    rParameter = (*m_aParameterRow)[m_nParameterIndex].getString();
+
+    m_nParameterIndex++;
+}
+
+MacabPreparedStatement::MacabPreparedStatement(
+    MacabConnection* _pConnection,
+    const OUString& sql)
+    : MacabPreparedStatement_BASE(_pConnection),
+      m_sSqlStatement(sql),
+      m_bPrepared(false),
+      m_nParameterIndex(0),
+      m_aParameterRow()
+{
+
+}
+
+MacabPreparedStatement::~MacabPreparedStatement()
+{
+}
+
+void MacabPreparedStatement::disposing()
+{
+    MacabPreparedStatement_BASE::disposing();
+
+    if (m_aParameterRow.is())
+    {
+        m_aParameterRow->clear();
+        m_aParameterRow = nullptr;
+    }
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSetMetaData > SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::getMetaData()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabCommonStatement_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    if (!m_xMetaData.is())
+    {
+        const OSQLTables& xTabs = m_aSQLIterator.getTables();
+        OUString sTableName = MacabAddressBook::getDefaultTableName();
+
+        if(! xTabs.empty() )
+        {
+
+            // can only deal with one table at a time
+            if(xTabs.size() == 1 && !m_aSQLIterator.hasErrors() )
+                sTableName = xTabs.begin()->first;
+
+        }
+        m_xMetaData = new MacabResultSetMetaData(getOwnConnection(),sTableName);
+        setMacabFields();
+    }
+    Reference< XResultSetMetaData > xMetaData = m_xMetaData;
+    return xMetaData;
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::close()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabCommonStatement_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // Reset last warning message
+    try {
+        clearWarnings ();
+        MacabCommonStatement::close();
+    }
+    catch (SQLException &) {
+        // If we get an error, ignore
+    }
+
+    // Remove this Statement object from the Connection object's
+    // list
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::execute()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabCommonStatement_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    Reference< XResultSet> xRS = MacabCommonStatement::executeQuery(m_sSqlStatement);
+
+    return xRS.is();
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::executeUpdate()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabCommonStatement_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // same as in statement with the difference that this statement also can contain parameter
+    return 0;
+}
+
+Reference< XConnection > SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::getConnection()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabCommonStatement_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    return m_pConnection;
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::executeQuery()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabCommonStatement_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    Reference< XResultSet > rs = MacabCommonStatement::executeQuery(m_sSqlStatement);
+
+    return rs;
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setNull(sal_Int32 parameterIndex, sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabCommonStatement_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    checkAndResizeParameters(parameterIndex);
+
+    (*m_aParameterRow)[parameterIndex - 1].setNull();
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setObjectNull(sal_Int32, sal_Int32, const OUString&)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setObjectNull", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setBoolean(sal_Int32, sal_Bool)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setBoolean", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setByte(sal_Int32, sal_Int8)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setByte", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setShort(sal_Int32, sal_Int16)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setShort", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setInt(sal_Int32, sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setInt", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setLong(sal_Int32, sal_Int64)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setLong", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setFloat(sal_Int32, float)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setFloat", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setDouble(sal_Int32, double)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setDouble", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setString(sal_Int32 parameterIndex, const OUString &x)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabCommonStatement_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    checkAndResizeParameters(parameterIndex);
+
+    (*m_aParameterRow)[parameterIndex - 1] = x;
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setBytes(sal_Int32, const Sequence< sal_Int8 >&)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setBytes", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setDate(sal_Int32, const Date&)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setDate", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setTime(sal_Int32, const css::util::Time&)
+{
+
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setTime", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setTimestamp(sal_Int32, const DateTime&)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setTimestamp", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setBinaryStream(sal_Int32, const Reference< css::io::XInputStream >&, sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setBinaryStream", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setCharacterStream(sal_Int32, const Reference< css::io::XInputStream >&, sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setCharacterStream", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setObject(sal_Int32 parameterIndex, const Any& x)
+{
+    if(!::dbtools::implSetObject(this,parameterIndex,x))
+    {
+        const OUString sError( m_pConnection->getResources().getResourceStringWithSubstitution(
+                STR_UNKNOWN_PARA_TYPE,
+                "$position$", OUString::number(parameterIndex)
+             ) );
+        ::dbtools::throwGenericSQLException(sError,*this);
+    }
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setObjectWithInfo(sal_Int32, const Any&, sal_Int32, sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setObjectWithInfo", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setRef(sal_Int32, const Reference< XRef >&)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setRef", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setBlob(sal_Int32, const Reference< XBlob >&)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setBlob", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setClob(sal_Int32, const Reference< XClob >&)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setClob", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::setArray(sal_Int32, const Reference< XArray >&)
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("setArray", nullptr);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabPreparedStatement::clearParameters()
+{
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("clearParameters", nullptr);
+}
+
+void MacabPreparedStatement::setFastPropertyValue_NoBroadcast(sal_Int32 nHandle,const Any& rValue)
+{
+    switch (nHandle)
+    {
+        case PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETCONCURRENCY:
+            break;
+        case PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETTYPE:
+            break;
+        case PROPERTY_ID_FETCHDIRECTION:
+            break;
+        case PROPERTY_ID_USEBOOKMARKS:
+            break;
+        default:
+            MacabCommonStatement::setFastPropertyValue_NoBroadcast(nHandle,rValue);
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabPreparedStatement.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabPreparedStatement.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6e649bf64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabPreparedStatement.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "MacabStatement.hxx"
+#include "MacabResultSetMetaData.hxx"
+#include <connectivity/FValue.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XParameters.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XResultSetMetaDataSupplier.hpp>
+#include <cppuhelper/implbase.hxx>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+        typedef ::cppu::ImplInheritanceHelper< MacabCommonStatement,
+                                               css::sdbc::XPreparedStatement,
+                                               css::sdbc::XParameters,
+                                               css::sdbc::XResultSetMetaDataSupplier,
+                                               css::lang::XServiceInfo> MacabPreparedStatement_BASE;
+
+        class MacabPreparedStatement : public  MacabPreparedStatement_BASE
+        {
+        protected:
+            OUString                        m_sSqlStatement;
+            ::rtl::Reference< MacabResultSetMetaData >
+                                            m_xMetaData;
+            bool                            m_bPrepared;
+            mutable sal_Int32               m_nParameterIndex;
+            OValueRow                       m_aParameterRow;
+
+            /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+            void checkAndResizeParameters(sal_Int32 nParams);
+            /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+            void setMacabFields() const;
+
+        protected:
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setFastPropertyValue_NoBroadcast(
+                    sal_Int32 nHandle,
+                    const css::uno::Any& rValue) override;
+
+            virtual void resetParameters() const override;
+            virtual void getNextParameter(OUString &rParameter) const override;
+            virtual ~MacabPreparedStatement() override;
+
+        public:
+            DECLARE_SERVICE_INFO();
+            MacabPreparedStatement(MacabConnection* _pConnection, const OUString& sql);
+
+            // OComponentHelper
+            virtual void SAL_CALL disposing() override;
+
+            // XPreparedStatement
+            using MacabCommonStatement::executeQuery;
+            using MacabCommonStatement::executeUpdate;
+            using MacabCommonStatement::execute;
+
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL executeQuery(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL executeUpdate(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL execute(  ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XConnection > SAL_CALL getConnection(  ) override;
+
+            // XParameters
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setNull( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, sal_Int32 sqlType ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setObjectNull( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, sal_Int32 sqlType, const OUString& typeName ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setBoolean( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, sal_Bool x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setByte( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, sal_Int8 x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setShort( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, sal_Int16 x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setInt( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, sal_Int32 x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setLong( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, sal_Int64 x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setFloat( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, float x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setDouble( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, double x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setString( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, const OUString& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setBytes( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, const css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int8 >& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setDate( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, const css::util::Date& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setTime( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, const css::util::Time& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setTimestamp( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, const css::util::DateTime& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setBinaryStream( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, const css::uno::Reference< css::io::XInputStream >& x, sal_Int32 length ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setCharacterStream( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, const css::uno::Reference< css::io::XInputStream >& x, sal_Int32 length ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setObject( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, const css::uno::Any& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setObjectWithInfo( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, const css::uno::Any& x, sal_Int32 targetSqlType, sal_Int32 scale ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setRef( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, const css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XRef >& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setBlob( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, const css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XBlob >& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setClob( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, const css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XClob >& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setArray( sal_Int32 parameterIndex, const css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XArray >& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL clearParameters(  ) override;
+
+            // XCloseable
+            virtual void SAL_CALL close(  ) override;
+
+            // XResultSetMetaDataSupplier
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSetMetaData > SAL_CALL getMetaData(  ) override;
+        };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabRecord.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabRecord.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3072e1eaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabRecord.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,336 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "MacabRecord.hxx"
+#include "macabutilities.hxx"
+#include <com/sun/star/util/DateTime.hpp>
+
+#include <premac.h>
+#include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
+#include <AddressBook/ABAddressBookC.h>
+#include <postmac.h>
+#include <connectivity/dbconversion.hxx>
+
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+using namespace com::sun::star::util;
+using namespace ::dbtools;
+
+
+MacabRecord::MacabRecord() : size(0)
+{
+}
+
+
+MacabRecord::MacabRecord(const sal_Int32 _size)
+   : size(_size),
+     fields(std::make_unique<macabfield *[]>(size))
+{
+    sal_Int32 i;
+    for(i = 0; i < size; i++)
+        fields[i] = nullptr;
+}
+
+
+MacabRecord::~MacabRecord()
+{
+    if(size > 0)
+    {
+        releaseFields();
+        int i;
+        for(i = 0; i < size; i++)
+        {
+            delete fields[i];
+            fields[i] = nullptr;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+
+void MacabRecord::insertAtColumn (CFTypeRef _value, ABPropertyType _type, const sal_Int32 _column)
+{
+    if(_column < size)
+    {
+        if(fields[_column] == nullptr)
+            fields[_column] = new macabfield;
+
+        fields[_column]->value = _value;
+        if (fields[_column]->value)
+            CFRetain(fields[_column]->value);
+        fields[_column]->type = _type;
+    }
+}
+
+
+bool MacabRecord::contains (const macabfield *_field) const
+{
+    if(_field == nullptr)
+        return false;
+    else
+        return contains(_field->value);
+}
+
+
+bool MacabRecord::contains (const CFTypeRef _value) const
+{
+    sal_Int32 i;
+    for(i = 0; i < size; i++)
+    {
+        if(fields[i] != nullptr)
+        {
+            if(CFEqual(fields[i]->value, _value))
+            {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    return false;
+}
+
+
+sal_Int32 MacabRecord::getSize() const
+{
+    return size;
+}
+
+
+macabfield *MacabRecord::copy(const sal_Int32 i) const
+{
+    /* Note: copy(i) creates a new macabfield identical to that at
+     * location i, whereas get(i) returns a pointer to the macabfield
+     * at location i.
+     */
+    if(i < size)
+    {
+        macabfield *_copy = new macabfield;
+        _copy->type = fields[i]->type;
+        _copy->value = fields[i]->value;
+        if (_copy->value)
+            CFRetain(_copy->value);
+        return _copy;
+    }
+
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+
+macabfield *MacabRecord::get(const sal_Int32 i) const
+{
+    /* Note: copy(i) creates a new macabfield identical to that at
+     * location i, whereas get(i) returns a pointer to the macabfield
+     * at location i.
+     */
+    if(i < size)
+    {
+        return fields[i];
+    }
+
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+
+void MacabRecord::releaseFields()
+{
+    /* This method is, at the moment, only used in MacabHeader.cxx, but
+     * the idea is simple: if you are not destroying this object but want
+     * to clear it of its macabfields, you should release each field's
+     * value.
+     */
+    sal_Int32 i;
+    for(i = 0; i < size; i++)
+        CFRelease(fields[i]->value);
+}
+
+
+sal_Int32 MacabRecord::compareFields(const macabfield *_field1, const macabfield *_field2)
+{
+
+    /* When comparing records, if either field is NULL (and the other is
+     * not), that field is considered "greater than" the other, so that it
+     * shows up later in the list when fields are ordered.
+     */
+    if(_field1 == _field2)
+        return 0;
+    if(_field1 == nullptr)
+        return 1;
+    if(_field2 == nullptr)
+        return -1;
+
+    /* If they aren't the same type, for now, return the one with
+     * the smaller type ID... I don't know of a better way to compare
+     * two different data types.
+     */
+    if(_field1->type != _field2->type)
+        return(_field1->type - _field2->type);
+
+    CFComparisonResult result;
+
+    /* Carbon has a unique compare function for each data type: */
+    switch(_field1->type)
+    {
+        case kABStringProperty:
+            result = CFStringCompare(
+                static_cast<CFStringRef>(_field1->value),
+                static_cast<CFStringRef>(_field2->value),
+                kCFCompareLocalized); // Specifies that the comparison should take into account differences related to locale, such as the thousands separator character.
+            break;
+
+        case kABDateProperty:
+            result = CFDateCompare(
+                static_cast<CFDateRef>(_field1->value),
+                static_cast<CFDateRef>(_field2->value),
+                nullptr); // NULL = unused variable
+            break;
+
+        case kABIntegerProperty:
+        case kABRealProperty:
+            result = CFNumberCompare(
+                static_cast<CFNumberRef>(_field1->value),
+                static_cast<CFNumberRef>(_field2->value),
+                nullptr); // NULL = unused variable
+        break;
+
+        default:
+            result = kCFCompareEqualTo; // can't compare
+    }
+
+    return static_cast<sal_Int32>(result);
+}
+
+
+/* Create a macabfield out of an OUString and type. Together with the
+ * method fieldToString() (below), it is possible to switch conveniently
+ * between an OUString and a macabfield (for use when creating and handling
+ * SQL statement).
+ */
+macabfield *MacabRecord::createMacabField(const OUString& _newFieldString, const ABPropertyType _abType)
+{
+    macabfield *newField = nullptr;
+    switch(_abType)
+    {
+        case kABStringProperty:
+            newField = new macabfield;
+            newField->value = OUStringToCFString(_newFieldString);
+            newField->type = _abType;
+            break;
+        case kABDateProperty:
+            {
+                DateTime aDateTime = DBTypeConversion::toDateTime(_newFieldString);
+
+                // bad format...
+                if(aDateTime.Year == 0 && aDateTime.Month == 0 && aDateTime.Day == 0)
+                {
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    double nTime = DBTypeConversion::toDouble(aDateTime, DBTypeConversion::getStandardDate());
+                    nTime -= kCFAbsoluteTimeIntervalSince1970;
+                    newField = new macabfield;
+                    newField->value = CFDateCreate(nullptr, static_cast<CFAbsoluteTime>(nTime));
+                    newField->type = _abType;
+                }
+            }
+            break;
+        case kABIntegerProperty:
+            try
+            {
+                sal_Int64 nVal = _newFieldString.toInt64();
+
+                newField = new macabfield;
+                newField->value = CFNumberCreate(nullptr,kCFNumberLongType, &nVal);
+                newField->type = _abType;
+            }
+            // bad format...
+            catch(...)
+            {
+            }
+            break;
+        case kABRealProperty:
+            try
+            {
+                double nVal = _newFieldString.toDouble();
+
+                newField = new macabfield;
+                newField->value = CFNumberCreate(nullptr,kCFNumberDoubleType, &nVal);
+                newField->type = _abType;
+            }
+            // bad format...
+            catch(...)
+            {
+            }
+            break;
+        default:
+            ;
+    }
+    return newField;
+}
+
+
+/* Create an OUString out of a macabfield. Together with the method
+ * createMacabField() (above), it is possible to switch conveniently
+ * between an OUString and a macabfield (for use when creating and handling
+ * SQL statement).
+ */
+OUString MacabRecord::fieldToString(const macabfield *_aField)
+{
+    if(_aField == nullptr)
+        return OUString();
+
+    OUString fieldString;
+
+    switch(_aField->type)
+    {
+        case kABStringProperty:
+            fieldString = CFStringToOUString(static_cast<CFStringRef>(_aField->value));
+            break;
+        case kABDateProperty:
+            {
+                DateTime aTime = CFDateToDateTime(static_cast<CFDateRef>(_aField->value));
+                fieldString = DBTypeConversion::toDateTimeString(aTime);
+            }
+            break;
+        case kABIntegerProperty:
+            {
+                CFNumberType numberType = CFNumberGetType( static_cast<CFNumberRef>(_aField->value) );
+                sal_Int64 nVal;
+                // Should we check for the wrong type here, e.g., a float?
+                bool m_bSuccess = !CFNumberGetValue(static_cast<CFNumberRef>(_aField->value), numberType, &nVal);
+                if(m_bSuccess)
+                    fieldString = OUString::number(nVal);
+            }
+            break;
+        case kABRealProperty:
+            {
+                CFNumberType numberType = CFNumberGetType( static_cast<CFNumberRef>(_aField->value) );
+                double nVal;
+                // Should we check for the wrong type here, e.g., an int?
+                bool m_bSuccess = !CFNumberGetValue(static_cast<CFNumberRef>(_aField->value), numberType, &nVal);
+                if(m_bSuccess)
+                    fieldString = OUString::number(nVal);
+            }
+            break;
+        default:
+            ;
+    }
+    return fieldString;
+
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabRecord.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabRecord.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5184eefc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabRecord.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+
+#include <memory>
+
+#include <sal/types.h>
+#include <osl/diagnose.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+
+#include <premac.h>
+#include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
+#include <AddressBook/ABAddressBookC.h>
+#include <postmac.h>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+        /* a MacabRecord is at root a list of macabfields (which is just
+         * something to hold both a CFTypeRef (a CoreFoundation object) and
+         * its Address Book type.
+         */
+        struct macabfield
+        {
+            CFTypeRef value;
+            ABPropertyType type;
+        };
+
+        class MacabRecord{
+            protected:
+                sal_Int32 size;
+                std::unique_ptr<macabfield *[]> fields;
+            protected:
+                void releaseFields();
+            public:
+                MacabRecord();
+                explicit MacabRecord(const sal_Int32 _size);
+                virtual ~MacabRecord();
+                void insertAtColumn (CFTypeRef _value, ABPropertyType _type, const sal_Int32 _column);
+                bool contains(const macabfield *_field) const;
+                bool contains(const CFTypeRef _value) const;
+                sal_Int32 getSize() const;
+                macabfield *copy(const sal_Int32 i) const;
+                macabfield *get(const sal_Int32 i) const;
+
+                static sal_Int32 compareFields(const macabfield *_field1, const macabfield *_field2);
+                static macabfield *createMacabField(const OUString& _newFieldString, const ABPropertyType _abtype);
+                static OUString fieldToString(const macabfield *_aField);
+
+        };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabRecords.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabRecords.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..17ee6585d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabRecords.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,1160 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+
+#include <memory>
+#include <utility>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "MacabRecords.hxx"
+#include "MacabRecord.hxx"
+#include "MacabHeader.hxx"
+#include "macabutilities.hxx"
+
+#include <premac.h>
+#include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
+#include <AddressBook/ABAddressBookC.h>
+#include <postmac.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/util/DateTime.hpp>
+
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+using namespace com::sun::star::util;
+
+namespace {
+
+void manageDuplicateHeaders(macabfield **_headerNames, const sal_Int32 _length)
+{
+    /* If we have two cases of, say, phone: home, this makes it:
+     * phone: home (1)
+     * phone: home (2)
+     */
+    sal_Int32 i, j;
+    sal_Int32 count;
+    for(i = _length-1; i >= 0; i--)
+    {
+        count = 1;
+        for( j = i-1; j >= 0; j--)
+        {
+            if(CFEqual(_headerNames[i]->value, _headerNames[j]->value))
+            {
+                count++;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // duplicate!
+        if(count != 1)
+        {
+            // There is probably a better way to do this...
+            OUString newName = CFStringToOUString(static_cast<CFStringRef>(_headerNames[i]->value));
+            CFRelease(_headerNames[i]->value);
+            newName += " (" + OUString::number(count) + ")";
+            _headerNames[i]->value = OUStringToCFString(newName);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+}
+
+MacabRecords::MacabRecords(const ABAddressBookRef _addressBook, MacabHeader *_header, MacabRecord **_records, sal_Int32 _numRecords)
+   : recordsSize(_numRecords), currentRecord(_numRecords), recordType(kABPersonRecordType),
+     header(_header), records(_records), addressBook(_addressBook)
+{
+    /* Variables constructed... */
+    bootstrap_CF_types();
+    bootstrap_requiredProperties();
+}
+
+
+/* Creates a MacabRecords from another: copies the length, name, and
+ * address book of the original, but the header or the records themselves.
+ * The idea is that the only reason to copy a MacabRecords is to create
+ * a filtered version of it, which can have the same length (to avoid
+ * resizing) and will work from the same base addressbook, but might have
+ * entirely different values and even (possibly in the future) a different
+ * header.
+ */
+MacabRecords::MacabRecords(const MacabRecords *_copy)
+    : recordsSize(_copy->recordsSize), currentRecord(0), recordType(kABPersonRecordType),
+      header(nullptr), records(new MacabRecord *[recordsSize]), addressBook(_copy->addressBook),
+      m_sName(_copy->m_sName)
+{
+    /* Variables constructed... */
+    bootstrap_CF_types();
+    bootstrap_requiredProperties();
+}
+
+
+MacabRecords::MacabRecords(const ABAddressBookRef _addressBook)
+    : recordsSize(0), currentRecord(0), recordType(kABPersonRecordType),
+      header(nullptr), records(nullptr), addressBook(_addressBook)
+{
+    /* Variables constructed... */
+    bootstrap_CF_types();
+    bootstrap_requiredProperties();
+}
+
+
+void MacabRecords::initialize()
+{
+
+    /* Make sure everything is NULL before initializing. (We usually just
+     * initialize after we use the constructor that takes only a
+     * MacabAddressBook, so these variables will most likely already be
+     * NULL.
+     */
+    if(records != nullptr)
+    {
+        sal_Int32 i;
+
+        for(i = 0; i < recordsSize; i++)
+            delete records[i];
+
+        delete [] records;
+    }
+
+    if(header != nullptr)
+        delete header;
+
+    /* We can handle both default record Address Book record types in
+     * this method, though only kABPersonRecordType is ever used.
+     */
+    CFArrayRef allRecords;
+    if(CFStringCompare(recordType, kABPersonRecordType, 0) == kCFCompareEqualTo)
+        allRecords = ABCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);
+    else
+        allRecords = ABCopyArrayOfAllGroups(addressBook);
+
+    ABRecordRef record;
+    sal_Int32 i;
+    recordsSize = static_cast<sal_Int32>(CFArrayGetCount(allRecords));
+    records = new MacabRecord *[recordsSize];
+
+    /* First, we create the header... */
+    header = createHeaderForRecordType(allRecords, recordType);
+
+    /* Then, we create each of the records... */
+    for(i = 0; i < recordsSize; i++)
+    {
+        record = const_cast<ABRecordRef>(CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(allRecords, i));
+        records[i] = createMacabRecord(record, header, recordType);
+    }
+    currentRecord = recordsSize;
+
+    CFRelease(allRecords);
+}
+
+
+MacabRecords::~MacabRecords()
+{
+}
+
+
+void MacabRecords::setHeader(MacabHeader *_header)
+{
+    if(header != nullptr)
+        delete header;
+    header = _header;
+}
+
+
+MacabHeader *MacabRecords::getHeader() const
+{
+    return header;
+}
+
+
+/* Inserts a MacabRecord at a given location. If there is already a
+ * MacabRecord at that location, return it.
+ */
+MacabRecord *MacabRecords::insertRecord(MacabRecord *_newRecord, const sal_Int32 _location)
+{
+    MacabRecord *oldRecord;
+
+    /* If the location is greater than the current allocated size of this
+     * MacabRecords, allocate more space.
+     */
+    if(_location >= recordsSize)
+    {
+        sal_Int32 i;
+        MacabRecord **newRecordsArray = new MacabRecord *[_location+1];
+        for(i = 0; i < recordsSize; i++)
+        {
+            newRecordsArray[i] = records[i];
+        }
+        delete [] records;
+        records = newRecordsArray;
+    }
+
+    /* Remember: currentRecord refers to one above the highest existing
+     * record (i.e., it refers to where to place the next record if a
+     * location is not given).
+     */
+    if(_location >= currentRecord)
+        currentRecord = _location+1;
+
+    oldRecord = records[_location];
+    records[_location] = _newRecord;
+    return oldRecord;
+}
+
+
+/* Insert a record at the next available place. */
+void MacabRecords::insertRecord(MacabRecord *_newRecord)
+{
+    insertRecord(_newRecord, currentRecord);
+}
+
+
+MacabRecord *MacabRecords::getRecord(const sal_Int32 _location) const
+{
+    if(_location >= recordsSize)
+        return nullptr;
+    return records[_location];
+}
+
+
+macabfield *MacabRecords::getField(const sal_Int32 _recordNumber, const sal_Int32 _columnNumber) const
+{
+    if(_recordNumber >= recordsSize)
+        return nullptr;
+
+    MacabRecord *record = records[_recordNumber];
+
+    if(_columnNumber < 0 || _columnNumber >= record->getSize())
+        return nullptr;
+
+    return record->get(_columnNumber);
+}
+
+
+macabfield *MacabRecords::getField(const sal_Int32 _recordNumber, std::u16string_view _columnName)
+    const
+{
+    if(header != nullptr)
+    {
+        sal_Int32 columnNumber = header->getColumnNumber(_columnName);
+        if(columnNumber == -1)
+            return nullptr;
+
+        return getField(_recordNumber, columnNumber);
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        // error: shouldn't access field with null header!
+        return nullptr;
+    }
+}
+
+
+sal_Int32 MacabRecords::getFieldNumber(std::u16string_view _columnName) const
+{
+    if(header != nullptr)
+        return header->getColumnNumber(_columnName);
+    else
+        // error: shouldn't access field with null header!
+        return -1;
+}
+
+
+/* Create the lcl_CFTypes array -- we need this because there is no
+ * way to get the ABType of an object from the object itself, and the
+ * function ABTypeOfProperty can't handle multiple levels of data
+ * (e.g., it can tell us that "address" is of type
+ * kABDictionaryProperty, but it cannot tell us that all of the keys
+ * and values in the dictionary have type kABStringProperty. On the
+ * other hand, we _can_ get the CFType out of any object.
+ * Unfortunately, all information about CFTypeIDs comes with the
+ * warning that they change between releases, so we build them
+ * ourselves here. (The one that we can't build is for multivalues,
+ * e.g., kABMultiStringProperty. All of these appear to have the
+ * same type: 1, but there is no function that I've found to give
+ * us that dynamically in case that number ever changes.
+ */
+void MacabRecords::bootstrap_CF_types()
+{
+    lcl_CFTypes = {
+        {CFNumberGetTypeID(), kABIntegerProperty},
+        {CFStringGetTypeID(), kABStringProperty},
+        {CFDateGetTypeID(), kABDateProperty},
+        {CFArrayGetTypeID(), kABArrayProperty},
+        {CFDictionaryGetTypeID(), kABDictionaryProperty},
+        {CFDataGetTypeID(), kABDataProperty}};
+}
+
+
+/* This is based on the possible fields required in the mail merge template
+ * in sw. If the fields possible there change, it would be optimal to
+ * change these fields as well.
+ */
+void MacabRecords::bootstrap_requiredProperties()
+{
+    requiredProperties = {
+        kABTitleProperty, kABFirstNameProperty, kABLastNameProperty, kABOrganizationProperty,
+        kABAddressProperty, kABPhoneProperty, kABEmailProperty};
+}
+
+
+/* Create the header for a given record type and a given array of records.
+ * Because the array of records and the record type are given, if you want
+ * to, you can run this method on the members of a group, or on any other
+ * filtered list of people and get a header relevant to them (e.g., if
+ * they only have home addresses, the work address fields won't show up).
+ */
+MacabHeader *MacabRecords::createHeaderForRecordType(const CFArrayRef _records, const CFStringRef _recordType) const
+{
+    /* We have two types of properties for a given record type, nonrequired
+     * and required. Required properties are ones that will show up whether
+     * or not they are empty. Nonrequired properties will only show up if
+     * at least one record in the set has that property filled. The reason
+     * is that some properties, like the kABTitleProperty are required by
+     * the mail merge wizard (in module sw) but are by default not shown in
+     * the macOS address book, so they would be weeded out at this stage
+     * and not shown if they were not required.
+     *
+     * Note: with the addition of required properties, I am not sure that
+     * this method still works for kABGroupRecordType (since the required
+     * properties are all for kABPersonRecordType).
+     *
+     * Note: required properties are constructed in the method
+     * bootstrap_requiredProperties() (above).
+     */
+    CFArrayRef allProperties = ABCopyArrayOfPropertiesForRecordType(addressBook, _recordType);
+    CFStringRef *nonRequiredProperties;
+    sal_Int32 numRecords = static_cast<sal_Int32>(CFArrayGetCount(_records));
+    sal_Int32 numProperties = static_cast<sal_Int32>(CFArrayGetCount(allProperties));
+    sal_Int32 numNonRequiredProperties = numProperties - requiredProperties.size();
+
+    /* While searching through the properties for required properties, these
+     * sal_Bools will keep track of what we have found.
+     */
+    bool bFoundRequiredProperties[requiredProperties.size()];
+
+
+    /* We have three MacabHeaders: headerDataForProperty is where we
+     * store the result of createHeaderForProperty(), which return a
+     * MacabHeader for a single property. lcl_header is where we store
+     * the MacabHeader that we are constructing. And, nonRequiredHeader
+     * is where we construct the MacabHeader for non-required properties,
+     * so that we can sort them before adding them to lcl_header.
+     */
+    MacabHeader *headerDataForProperty;
+    MacabHeader *lcl_header = new MacabHeader();
+    MacabHeader *nonRequiredHeader = new MacabHeader();
+
+    /* Other variables... */
+    sal_Int32 k;
+    ABRecordRef record;
+    CFStringRef property;
+
+
+    /* Allocate and initialize... */
+    nonRequiredProperties = new CFStringRef[numNonRequiredProperties];
+    k = 0;
+    for(std::vector<CFStringRef>::size_type i = 0; i < requiredProperties.size(); i++)
+        bFoundRequiredProperties[i] = false;
+
+    /* Determine the non-required properties... */
+    for(sal_Int32 i = 0; i < numProperties; i++)
+    {
+        bool bFoundProperty = false;
+        property = static_cast<CFStringRef>(CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(allProperties, i));
+        for(std::vector<CFStringRef>::size_type j = 0; j < requiredProperties.size(); j++)
+        {
+            if(CFEqual(property, requiredProperties[j]))
+            {
+                bFoundProperty = true;
+                bFoundRequiredProperties[j] = true;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+
+        if(!bFoundProperty)
+        {
+            /* If we have found too many non-required properties */
+            if(k == numNonRequiredProperties)
+            {
+                k++; // so that the OSL_ENSURE below fails
+                break;
+            }
+            nonRequiredProperties[k] = property;
+            k++;
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Somehow, we got too many or too few non-required properties...
+    // Most likely, one of the required properties no longer exists, which
+    // we also test later.
+    OSL_ENSURE(k == numNonRequiredProperties, "MacabRecords::createHeaderForRecordType: Found an unexpected number of non-required properties");
+
+    /* Fill the header with required properties first... */
+    for(std::vector<CFStringRef>::size_type i = 0; i < requiredProperties.size(); i++)
+    {
+        if(bFoundRequiredProperties[i])
+        {
+            /* The order of these matters (we want all address properties
+             * before any phone properties, or else things will look weird),
+             * so we get all possibilities for each property, going through
+             * each record, and then go onto the next property.
+             * (Note: the reason that we have to go through all records
+             * in the first place is that properties like address, phone, and
+             * e-mail are multi-value properties with an unknown number of
+             * values. A user could specify thirteen different kinds of
+             * e-mail addresses for one of her or his contacts, and we need to
+             * get all of them.
+             */
+            for(sal_Int32 j = 0; j < numRecords; j++)
+            {
+                record = const_cast<ABRecordRef>(CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(_records, j));
+                headerDataForProperty = createHeaderForProperty(record,requiredProperties[i],_recordType,true);
+                if(headerDataForProperty != nullptr)
+                {
+                    (*lcl_header) += headerDataForProperty;
+                    delete headerDataForProperty;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            // Couldn't find a required property...
+            OSL_FAIL(OString("MacabRecords::createHeaderForRecordType: could not find required property: " +
+                                    OUStringToOString(CFStringToOUString(requiredProperties[i]), RTL_TEXTENCODING_ASCII_US)).getStr());
+        }
+    }
+
+    /* And now, non-required properties... */
+    for(sal_Int32 i = 0; i < numRecords; i++)
+    {
+        record = const_cast<ABRecordRef>(CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(_records, i));
+
+        for(sal_Int32 j = 0; j < numNonRequiredProperties; j++)
+        {
+            property = nonRequiredProperties[j];
+            headerDataForProperty = createHeaderForProperty(record,property,_recordType,false);
+            if(headerDataForProperty != nullptr)
+            {
+                (*nonRequiredHeader) += headerDataForProperty;
+                delete headerDataForProperty;
+            }
+        }
+
+    }
+    nonRequiredHeader->sortRecord();
+
+    (*lcl_header) += nonRequiredHeader;
+    delete nonRequiredHeader;
+
+    CFRelease(allProperties);
+    delete [] nonRequiredProperties;
+
+    return lcl_header;
+}
+
+
+/* Create a header for a single property. Basically, this method gets
+ * the property's value and type and then calls another method of
+ * the same name to do the dirty work.
+ */
+MacabHeader *MacabRecords::createHeaderForProperty(const ABRecordRef _record, const CFStringRef _propertyName, const CFStringRef _recordType, const bool _isPropertyRequired) const
+{
+    // local variables
+    CFStringRef localizedPropertyName;
+    CFTypeRef propertyValue;
+    ABPropertyType propertyType;
+    MacabHeader *result;
+
+    /* Get the property's value */
+    propertyValue = ABRecordCopyValue(_record,_propertyName);
+    if(propertyValue == nullptr && !_isPropertyRequired)
+        return nullptr;
+
+    propertyType = ABTypeOfProperty(addressBook, _recordType, _propertyName);
+    localizedPropertyName = ABCopyLocalizedPropertyOrLabel(_propertyName);
+
+    result = createHeaderForProperty(propertyType, propertyValue, localizedPropertyName);
+
+    if(propertyValue != nullptr)
+        CFRelease(propertyValue);
+
+    return result;
+}
+
+
+/* Create a header for a single property. This method is recursive
+ * because a single property might contain several sub-properties that
+ * we also want to treat singly.
+ */
+MacabHeader *MacabRecords::createHeaderForProperty(const ABPropertyType _propertyType, const CFTypeRef _propertyValue, const CFStringRef _propertyName) const
+{
+    macabfield **headerNames = nullptr;
+    sal_Int32 length = 0;
+
+    switch(_propertyType)
+    {
+        /* Scalars */
+        case kABStringProperty:
+        case kABRealProperty:
+        case kABIntegerProperty:
+        case kABDateProperty:
+            length = 1;
+            headerNames = new macabfield *[1];
+            headerNames[0] = new macabfield;
+            headerNames[0]->value = _propertyName;
+            headerNames[0]->type = _propertyType;
+            break;
+
+        /* Multi-scalars */
+        case kABMultiIntegerProperty:
+        case kABMultiDateProperty:
+        case kABMultiStringProperty:
+        case kABMultiRealProperty:
+        case kABMultiDataProperty:
+            /* For non-scalars, we can only get more information if the property
+             * actually exists.
+             */
+            if(_propertyValue != nullptr)
+            {
+                sal_Int32 i;
+
+                sal_Int32 multiLength = ABMultiValueCount(static_cast<ABMutableMultiValueRef>(const_cast<void *>(_propertyValue)));
+                CFStringRef multiLabel, localizedMultiLabel;
+                OUString multiLabelString;
+                OUString multiPropertyString;
+                OUString headerNameString;
+                ABPropertyType multiType = static_cast<ABPropertyType>(ABMultiValuePropertyType(static_cast<ABMutableMultiValueRef>(const_cast<void *>(_propertyValue))) - 0x100);
+
+                length = multiLength;
+                headerNames = new macabfield *[multiLength];
+                multiPropertyString = CFStringToOUString(_propertyName);
+
+                /* Go through each element, and - since each element is a scalar -
+                 * just create a new macabfield for it.
+                 */
+                for(i = 0; i < multiLength; i++)
+                {
+                    multiLabel = ABMultiValueCopyLabelAtIndex(static_cast<ABMutableMultiValueRef>(const_cast<void *>(_propertyValue)), i);
+                    localizedMultiLabel = ABCopyLocalizedPropertyOrLabel(multiLabel);
+                    multiLabelString = CFStringToOUString(localizedMultiLabel);
+                    CFRelease(multiLabel);
+                    CFRelease(localizedMultiLabel);
+                    headerNameString = multiPropertyString + ": " + fixLabel(multiLabelString);
+                    headerNames[i] = new macabfield;
+                    headerNames[i]->value = OUStringToCFString(headerNameString);
+                    headerNames[i]->type = multiType;
+                }
+            }
+            break;
+
+        /* Multi-array or dictionary */
+        case kABMultiArrayProperty:
+        case kABMultiDictionaryProperty:
+            /* For non-scalars, we can only get more information if the property
+             * actually exists.
+             */
+            if(_propertyValue != nullptr)
+            {
+                sal_Int32 i,j,k;
+
+                // Total number of multi-array or multi-dictionary elements.
+                sal_Int32 multiLengthFirstLevel = ABMultiValueCount(static_cast<ABMutableMultiValueRef>(const_cast<void *>(_propertyValue)));
+
+                /* Total length, including the length of each element (e.g., if
+                 * this multi-dictionary contains three dictionaries, and each
+                 * dictionary has four elements, this variable will be twelve,
+                 * whereas multiLengthFirstLevel will be three.
+                 */
+                sal_Int32 multiLengthSecondLevel = 0;
+
+                CFStringRef multiLabel, localizedMultiLabel;
+                CFTypeRef multiValue;
+                OUString multiLabelString;
+                OUString multiPropertyString;
+                std::vector<std::unique_ptr<MacabHeader>> multiHeaders;
+                ABPropertyType multiType = static_cast<ABPropertyType>(ABMultiValuePropertyType(static_cast<ABMutableMultiValueRef>(const_cast<void *>(_propertyValue))) - 0x100);
+
+                multiPropertyString = CFStringToOUString(_propertyName);
+
+                /* Go through each element - since each element can really
+                 * contain anything, we run this method again on each element
+                 * and store the resulting MacabHeader (in the multiHeaders
+                 * array). Then, all we'll have to do is combine the MacabHeaders
+                 * into a single one.
+                 */
+                for(i = 0; i < multiLengthFirstLevel; i++)
+                {
+                    /* label */
+                    multiLabel = ABMultiValueCopyLabelAtIndex(static_cast<ABMutableMultiValueRef>(const_cast<void *>(_propertyValue)), i);
+                    multiValue = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(static_cast<ABMutableMultiValueRef>(const_cast<void *>(_propertyValue)), i);
+                    std::unique_ptr<MacabHeader> hdr;
+                    if(multiValue && multiLabel)
+                    {
+                        localizedMultiLabel = ABCopyLocalizedPropertyOrLabel(multiLabel);
+                        multiLabelString = multiPropertyString + ": " + fixLabel(CFStringToOUString(localizedMultiLabel));
+                        CFRelease(multiLabel);
+                        CFRelease(localizedMultiLabel);
+                        multiLabel = OUStringToCFString(multiLabelString);
+                        hdr.reset(createHeaderForProperty(multiType, multiValue, multiLabel));
+                        if (!hdr)
+                            hdr = std::make_unique<MacabHeader>();
+                        multiLengthSecondLevel += hdr->getSize();
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        hdr = std::make_unique<MacabHeader>();
+                    }
+                    if(multiValue)
+                        CFRelease(multiValue);
+                    if(multiLabel)
+                        CFRelease(multiLabel);
+                    multiHeaders.push_back(std::move(hdr));
+                }
+
+                /* We now have enough information to create our final MacabHeader.
+                 * We go through each field of each header and add it to the
+                 * headerNames array (which is what is used below to construct
+                 * the MacabHeader we return).
+                 */
+                length = multiLengthSecondLevel;
+                headerNames = new macabfield *[multiLengthSecondLevel];
+
+                for(i = 0, j = 0, k = 0; i < multiLengthSecondLevel; i++,k++)
+                {
+                    while(multiHeaders[j]->getSize() == k)
+                    {
+                        j++;
+                        k = 0;
+                    }
+
+                    headerNames[i] = multiHeaders[j]->copy(k);
+                }
+            }
+            break;
+
+        /* Dictionary */
+        case kABDictionaryProperty:
+            /* For non-scalars, we can only get more information if the property
+             * actually exists.
+             */
+            if(_propertyValue != nullptr)
+            {
+                /* Assume all keys are strings */
+                sal_Int32 numRecords = static_cast<sal_Int32>(CFDictionaryGetCount(static_cast<CFDictionaryRef>(_propertyValue)));
+
+                /* The only method for getting info out of a CFDictionary, of both
+                 * keys and values, is to all of them all at once, so these
+                 * variables will hold them.
+                 */
+                CFStringRef *dictKeys;
+                CFTypeRef *dictValues;
+
+                sal_Int32 i,j,k;
+                OUString dictKeyString, propertyNameString;
+                ABPropertyType dictType;
+                MacabHeader **dictHeaders = new MacabHeader *[numRecords];
+                OUString dictLabelString;
+                CFStringRef dictLabel, localizedDictKey;
+
+                /* Get the keys and values */
+                dictKeys = static_cast<CFStringRef *>(malloc(sizeof(CFStringRef)*numRecords));
+                dictValues = static_cast<CFTypeRef *>(malloc(sizeof(CFTypeRef)*numRecords));
+                CFDictionaryGetKeysAndValues(static_cast<CFDictionaryRef>(_propertyValue), reinterpret_cast<const void **>(dictKeys), dictValues);
+
+                propertyNameString = CFStringToOUString(_propertyName);
+
+                length = 0;
+                /* Go through each element - assuming that the key is a string but
+                 * that the value could be anything. Since the value could be
+                 * anything, we can't assume that it is scalar (it could even be
+                 * another dictionary), so we attempt to get its type using
+                 * the method getABTypeFromCFType and then run this method
+                 * recursively on that element, storing the MacabHeader that
+                 * results. Then, we just combine all of the MacabHeaders into
+                 * one.
+                 */
+                for(i = 0; i < numRecords; i++)
+                {
+                    dictType = getABTypeFromCFType( CFGetTypeID(dictValues[i]) );
+                    localizedDictKey = ABCopyLocalizedPropertyOrLabel(dictKeys[i]);
+                    dictKeyString = CFStringToOUString(localizedDictKey);
+                    dictLabelString = propertyNameString + ": " + fixLabel(dictKeyString);
+                    dictLabel = OUStringToCFString(dictLabelString);
+                    dictHeaders[i] = createHeaderForProperty(dictType, dictValues[i], dictLabel);
+                    if (!dictHeaders[i])
+                        dictHeaders[i] = new MacabHeader();
+                    length += dictHeaders[i]->getSize();
+                    CFRelease(dictLabel);
+                    CFRelease(localizedDictKey);
+                }
+
+                /* Combine all of the macabfields in each MacabHeader into the
+                 * headerNames array, which (at the end of this method) is used
+                 * to create the MacabHeader that is returned.
+                 */
+                headerNames = new macabfield *[length];
+                for(i = 0, j = 0, k = 0; i < length; i++,k++)
+                {
+                    while(dictHeaders[j]->getSize() == k)
+                    {
+                        j++;
+                        k = 0;
+                    }
+
+                    headerNames[i] = dictHeaders[j]->copy(k);
+                }
+
+                for(i = 0; i < numRecords; i++)
+                    delete dictHeaders[i];
+
+                delete [] dictHeaders;
+                free(dictKeys);
+                free(dictValues);
+            }
+            break;
+
+        /* Array */
+        case kABArrayProperty:
+            /* For non-scalars, we can only get more information if the property
+             * actually exists.
+             */
+            if(_propertyValue != nullptr)
+            {
+                sal_Int32 arrLength = static_cast<sal_Int32>(CFArrayGetCount(static_cast<CFArrayRef>(_propertyValue)));
+                sal_Int32 i,j,k;
+                CFTypeRef arrValue;
+                ABPropertyType arrType;
+                std::vector<std::unique_ptr<MacabHeader>> arrHeaders;
+                OUString propertyNameString = CFStringToOUString(_propertyName);
+                OUString arrLabelString;
+                CFStringRef arrLabel;
+
+                length = 0;
+                /* Go through each element - since the elements here do not have
+                 * unique keys like the ones in dictionaries, we create a unique
+                 * key out of the id of the element in the array (the first
+                 * element gets a 0 plopped onto the end of it, the second a 1...
+                 * As with dictionaries, the elements could be anything, including
+                 * another array, so we have to run this method recursively on
+                 * each element, storing the resulting MacabHeader into an array,
+                 * which we then combine into one MacabHeader that is returned.
+                 */
+                for(i = 0; i < arrLength; i++)
+                {
+                    arrValue = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(static_cast<CFArrayRef>(_propertyValue), i);
+                    arrType = getABTypeFromCFType( CFGetTypeID(arrValue) );
+                    arrLabelString = propertyNameString + OUString::number(i);
+                    arrLabel = OUStringToCFString(arrLabelString);
+                    auto hdr = std::unique_ptr<MacabHeader>(createHeaderForProperty(arrType, arrValue, arrLabel));
+                    if (!hdr)
+                        hdr = std::make_unique<MacabHeader>();
+                    length += hdr->getSize();
+                    CFRelease(arrLabel);
+                    arrHeaders.push_back(std::move(hdr));
+                }
+
+                headerNames = new macabfield *[length];
+                for(i = 0, j = 0, k = 0; i < length; i++,k++)
+                {
+                    while(arrHeaders[j]->getSize() == k)
+                    {
+                        j++;
+                        k = 0;
+                    }
+
+                    headerNames[i] = arrHeaders[j]->copy(k);
+                }
+            }
+            break;
+
+            default:
+                break;
+
+    }
+
+    /* If we succeeded at adding elements to the headerNames array, then
+     * length will no longer be 0. If it is, create a new MacabHeader
+     * out of the headerNames (after weeding out duplicate headers), and
+     * then return the result. If the length is still 0, return NULL: we
+     * failed to create a MacabHeader out of this property.
+     */
+    if(length != 0)
+    {
+        manageDuplicateHeaders(headerNames, length);
+        MacabHeader *headerResult = new MacabHeader(length, headerNames);
+        for(sal_Int32 i = 0; i < length; ++i)
+            delete headerNames[i];
+        delete [] headerNames;
+        return headerResult;
+    }
+    else
+        return nullptr;
+}
+
+
+/* Create a MacabRecord out of an ABRecord, using a given MacabHeader and
+ * the record's type. We go through each property for this record type
+ * then process it much like we processed the header (above), with two
+ * exceptions: if we come upon something not in the header, we ignore it
+ * (it's something we don't want to add), and once we find a corresponding
+ * location in the header, we store the property and the property type in
+ * a macabfield. (For the header, we stored the property type and the name
+ * of the property as a CFString.)
+ */
+MacabRecord *MacabRecords::createMacabRecord(const ABRecordRef _abrecord, const MacabHeader *_header, const CFStringRef _recordType) const
+{
+    /* The new record that we will create... */
+    MacabRecord *macabRecord = new MacabRecord(_header->getSize());
+
+    CFArrayRef recordProperties = ABCopyArrayOfPropertiesForRecordType(addressBook, _recordType);
+    sal_Int32 numProperties = static_cast<sal_Int32>(CFArrayGetCount(recordProperties));
+
+    sal_Int32 i;
+
+    CFTypeRef propertyValue;
+    ABPropertyType propertyType;
+
+    CFStringRef propertyName, localizedPropertyName;
+    OUString propertyNameString;
+    for(i = 0; i < numProperties; i++)
+    {
+        propertyName = static_cast<CFStringRef>(CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(recordProperties, i));
+        localizedPropertyName = ABCopyLocalizedPropertyOrLabel(propertyName);
+        propertyNameString = CFStringToOUString(localizedPropertyName);
+        CFRelease(localizedPropertyName);
+
+        /* Get the property's value */
+        propertyValue = ABRecordCopyValue(_abrecord,propertyName);
+        if(propertyValue != nullptr)
+        {
+            propertyType = ABTypeOfProperty(addressBook, _recordType, propertyName);
+            if(propertyType != kABErrorInProperty)
+                insertPropertyIntoMacabRecord(propertyType, macabRecord, _header, propertyNameString, propertyValue);
+
+            CFRelease(propertyValue);
+        }
+    }
+    CFRelease(recordProperties);
+    return macabRecord;
+}
+
+
+/* Inserts a given property into a MacabRecord. This method calls another
+ * method by the same name after getting the property type (it only
+ * receives the property value). It is called when we aren't given the
+ * property's type already.
+ */
+void MacabRecords::insertPropertyIntoMacabRecord(MacabRecord *_abrecord, const MacabHeader *_header, const OUString& _propertyName, const CFTypeRef _propertyValue) const
+{
+    CFTypeID cf_type = CFGetTypeID(_propertyValue);
+    ABPropertyType ab_type = getABTypeFromCFType( cf_type );
+
+    if(ab_type != kABErrorInProperty)
+        insertPropertyIntoMacabRecord(ab_type, _abrecord, _header, _propertyName, _propertyValue);
+}
+
+
+/* Inserts a given property into a MacabRecord. This method is recursive
+ * because properties can contain many sub-properties.
+ */
+void MacabRecords::insertPropertyIntoMacabRecord(const ABPropertyType _propertyType, MacabRecord *_abrecord, const MacabHeader *_header, const OUString& _propertyName, const CFTypeRef _propertyValue) const
+{
+    /* If there is no value, return */
+    if(_propertyValue == nullptr)
+        return;
+
+    /* The main switch statement */
+    switch(_propertyType)
+    {
+        /* Scalars */
+        case kABStringProperty:
+        case kABRealProperty:
+        case kABIntegerProperty:
+        case kABDateProperty:
+        {
+            /* Only scalars actually insert a property into the MacabRecord.
+             * In all other cases, this method is called recursively until a
+             * scalar type, an error, or an unknown type are found.
+             * Because of that, the following checks only occur for this type.
+             * We store whether we have successfully placed this property
+             * into the MacabRecord (or whether an unrecoverable error occurred).
+             * Then, we try over and over again to place the property into the
+             * record. There are three possible results:
+             * 1) Success!
+             * 2) There is already a property stored at the column of this name,
+             * in which case we have a duplicate header (see the method
+             * manageDuplicateHeaders()). If that is the case, we add an ID
+             * to the end of the column name in the same format as we do in
+             * manageDuplicateHeaders() and try again.
+             * 3) No column of this name exists in the header. In this case,
+             * there is nothing we can do: we have failed to place this
+             * property into the record.
+             */
+            bool bPlaced = false;
+            OUString columnName = _propertyName;
+            sal_Int32 i = 1;
+
+            // A big safeguard to prevent two fields from having the same name.
+            while(!bPlaced)
+            {
+                sal_Int32 columnNumber = _header->getColumnNumber(columnName);
+                bPlaced = true;
+                if(columnNumber != -1)
+                {
+                    // collision! A property already exists here!
+                    if(_abrecord->get(columnNumber) != nullptr)
+                    {
+                        bPlaced = false;
+                        i++;
+                        columnName = _propertyName + " (" + OUString::number(i) + ")";
+                    }
+
+                    // success!
+                    else
+                    {
+                        _abrecord->insertAtColumn(_propertyValue, _propertyType, columnNumber);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        break;
+
+        /* Array */
+        case kABArrayProperty:
+            {
+                /* An array is basically just a list of anything, so all we do
+                 * is go through the array, and rerun this method recursively
+                 * on each element.
+                 */
+                sal_Int32 arrLength = static_cast<sal_Int32>(CFArrayGetCount(static_cast<CFArrayRef>(_propertyValue)));
+                sal_Int32 i;
+                OUString newPropertyName;
+
+                /* Going through each element... */
+                for(i = 0; i < arrLength; i++)
+                {
+                    const void *arrValue = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(static_cast<CFArrayRef>(_propertyValue), i);
+                    newPropertyName = _propertyName + OUString::number(i);
+                    insertPropertyIntoMacabRecord(_abrecord, _header, newPropertyName, arrValue);
+                    CFRelease(arrValue);
+                }
+
+            }
+            break;
+
+        /* Dictionary */
+        case kABDictionaryProperty:
+            {
+                /* A dictionary is basically a hashmap. Technically, it can
+                 * hold any object as a key and any object as a value.
+                 * For our case, we assume that the key is a string (so that
+                 * we can use the key to get the column name and match it against
+                 * the header), but we don't assume anything about the value, so
+                 * we run this method recursively (or, rather, we run the version
+                 * of this method for when we don't know the object's type) until
+                 * we hit a scalar value.
+                 */
+
+                sal_Int32 numRecords = static_cast<sal_Int32>(CFDictionaryGetCount(static_cast<CFDictionaryRef>(_propertyValue)));
+                OUString dictKeyString;
+                sal_Int32 i;
+                OUString newPropertyName;
+
+                /* Unfortunately, the only way to get both keys and values out
+                 * of a dictionary in Carbon is to get them all at once, so we
+                 * do that.
+                 */
+                CFStringRef *dictKeys;
+                CFStringRef localizedDictKey;
+                CFTypeRef *dictValues;
+                dictKeys = static_cast<CFStringRef *>(malloc(sizeof(CFStringRef)*numRecords));
+                dictValues = static_cast<CFTypeRef *>(malloc(sizeof(CFTypeRef)*numRecords));
+                CFDictionaryGetKeysAndValues(static_cast<CFDictionaryRef>(_propertyValue), reinterpret_cast<const void **>(dictKeys), dictValues);
+
+                /* Going through each element... */
+                for(i = 0; i < numRecords; i++)
+                {
+                    localizedDictKey = ABCopyLocalizedPropertyOrLabel(dictKeys[i]);
+                    dictKeyString = CFStringToOUString(localizedDictKey);
+                    CFRelease(localizedDictKey);
+                    newPropertyName = _propertyName + ": " + fixLabel(dictKeyString);
+                    insertPropertyIntoMacabRecord(_abrecord, _header, newPropertyName, dictValues[i]);
+                }
+
+                free(dictKeys);
+                free(dictValues);
+            }
+            break;
+
+        /* Multivalue */
+        case kABMultiIntegerProperty:
+        case kABMultiDateProperty:
+        case kABMultiStringProperty:
+        case kABMultiRealProperty:
+        case kABMultiDataProperty:
+        case kABMultiDictionaryProperty:
+        case kABMultiArrayProperty:
+            {
+                /* All scalar multivalues are handled in the same way. Each element
+                 * is a label and a value. All labels are strings
+                 * (kABStringProperty), and all values have the same type
+                 * (which is the type of the multivalue minus 255, or as
+                 * Carbon's list of property types has it, minus 0x100.
+                 * We just get the correct type, then go through each element
+                 * and get the label and value and print them in a list.
+                 */
+
+                sal_Int32 i;
+                sal_Int32 multiLength = ABMultiValueCount(static_cast<ABMutableMultiValueRef>(const_cast<void *>(_propertyValue)));
+                CFStringRef multiLabel, localizedMultiLabel;
+                CFTypeRef multiValue;
+                OUString multiLabelString, newPropertyName;
+                ABPropertyType multiType = static_cast<ABPropertyType>(ABMultiValuePropertyType(static_cast<ABMutableMultiValueRef>(const_cast<void *>(_propertyValue))) - 0x100);
+
+                /* Go through each element... */
+                for(i = 0; i < multiLength; i++)
+                {
+                    /* Label and value */
+                    multiLabel = ABMultiValueCopyLabelAtIndex(static_cast<ABMutableMultiValueRef>(const_cast<void *>(_propertyValue)), i);
+                    multiValue = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(static_cast<ABMutableMultiValueRef>(const_cast<void *>(_propertyValue)), i);
+
+                    localizedMultiLabel = ABCopyLocalizedPropertyOrLabel(multiLabel);
+                    multiLabelString = CFStringToOUString(localizedMultiLabel);
+                    newPropertyName = _propertyName + ": " + fixLabel(multiLabelString);
+                    insertPropertyIntoMacabRecord(multiType, _abrecord, _header, newPropertyName, multiValue);
+
+                    /* free our variables */
+                    CFRelease(multiLabel);
+                    CFRelease(localizedMultiLabel);
+                    CFRelease(multiValue);
+                }
+            }
+            break;
+
+        /* Unhandled types */
+        case kABErrorInProperty:
+        case kABDataProperty:
+        default:
+            /* An error, as far as I have seen, only shows up as a type
+             * returned by a function for dictionaries when the dictionary
+             * holds many types of values. Since we do not use that function,
+             * it shouldn't come up. I have yet to see the kABDataProperty,
+             * and I am not sure how to represent it as a string anyway,
+             * since it appears to just be a bunch of bytes. Assumably, if
+             * these bytes made up a string, the type would be
+             * kABStringProperty. I think that this is used when we are not
+             * sure what the type is (e.g., it could be a string or a number).
+             * That being the case, I still don't know how to represent it.
+             * And, default should never come up, since we've exhausted all
+             * of the possible types for ABPropertyType, but... just in case.
+             */
+            break;
+    }
+
+}
+
+
+ABPropertyType MacabRecords::getABTypeFromCFType(const CFTypeID cf_type ) const
+{
+    for(auto const & i: lcl_CFTypes)
+    {
+        /* A match! */
+        if(i.cf == cf_type)
+        {
+            return static_cast<ABPropertyType>(i.ab);
+        }
+    }
+    return kABErrorInProperty;
+}
+
+
+sal_Int32 MacabRecords::size() const
+{
+    return currentRecord;
+}
+
+
+MacabRecords *MacabRecords::begin()
+{
+    return this;
+}
+
+
+MacabRecords::iterator::iterator ()
+{
+}
+
+
+MacabRecords::iterator& MacabRecords::iterator::operator= (MacabRecords *_records)
+{
+    id = 0;
+    records = _records;
+    return *this;
+}
+
+
+void MacabRecords::iterator::operator++ ()
+{
+    id++;
+}
+
+
+bool MacabRecords::iterator::operator!= (const sal_Int32 i) const
+{
+    return(id != i);
+}
+
+
+bool MacabRecords::iterator::operator== (const sal_Int32 i) const
+{
+    return(id == i);
+}
+
+
+MacabRecord *MacabRecords::iterator::operator* () const
+{
+    return records->getRecord(id);
+}
+
+
+sal_Int32 MacabRecords::end() const
+{
+    return currentRecord;
+}
+
+
+void MacabRecords::swap(const sal_Int32 _id1, const sal_Int32 _id2)
+{
+    MacabRecord *swapRecord = records[_id1];
+
+    records[_id1] = records[_id2];
+    records[_id2] = swapRecord;
+}
+
+
+void MacabRecords::setName(const OUString& _sName)
+{
+    m_sName = _sName;
+}
+
+
+OUString const & MacabRecords::getName() const
+{
+    return m_sName;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabRecords.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabRecords.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8d0d5cf6f
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+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabRecords.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+
+#include <string_view>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "MacabRecord.hxx"
+#include "MacabHeader.hxx"
+
+#include <premac.h>
+#include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
+#include <AddressBook/ABAddressBookC.h>
+#include <postmac.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/util/DateTime.hpp>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+        /* This struct is for converting CF types to AB types (Core Foundation
+         * types to Address Book types).
+         */
+        struct lcl_CFType {
+            CFTypeID cf;
+            sal_Int32 ab;
+        };
+
+        class MacabRecords{
+            protected:
+                /* MacabRecords is, at its core, a table of macabfields, in the
+                 * form of a header and a list of objects of type MacabRecord.
+                 * It also has a unique name that refers to the name of the table.
+                 */
+                sal_Int32 recordsSize;
+                sal_Int32 currentRecord;
+                CFStringRef recordType;
+                MacabHeader *header;
+                MacabRecord **records;
+                ABAddressBookRef addressBook;
+                OUString m_sName;
+
+                /* For converting CF types to AB types */
+                std::vector<lcl_CFType> lcl_CFTypes;
+
+                /* For required properties */
+                std::vector<CFStringRef> requiredProperties;
+
+            private:
+                /* All of the private methods are for creating a MacabHeader or a
+                 * MacabRecord. They are used by the initialize method that goes
+                 * about filling a MacabRecords using all of the records in the
+                 * macOS Address Book.
+                 */
+                void bootstrap_CF_types();
+                void bootstrap_requiredProperties();
+                MacabHeader *createHeaderForProperty(const ABRecordRef _record, const CFStringRef _propertyName, const CFStringRef _recordType, const bool _isPropertyRequired) const;
+                MacabHeader *createHeaderForProperty(const ABPropertyType _propertyType, const CFTypeRef _propertyValue, const CFStringRef _propertyName) const;
+                ABPropertyType getABTypeFromCFType(const CFTypeID cf_type ) const;
+                void insertPropertyIntoMacabRecord(MacabRecord *_abrecord, const MacabHeader *_header, const OUString& _propertyName, const CFTypeRef _propertyValue) const;
+                void insertPropertyIntoMacabRecord(const ABPropertyType _propertyType, MacabRecord *_abrecord, const MacabHeader *_header, const OUString& _propertyName, const CFTypeRef _propertyValue) const;
+            public:
+                MacabRecords(const ABAddressBookRef _addressBook, MacabHeader *_header, MacabRecord **_records, sal_Int32 _numRecords);
+                explicit MacabRecords(const MacabRecords *_copy);
+                explicit MacabRecords(const ABAddressBookRef _addressBook);
+                ~MacabRecords();
+
+                void initialize();
+
+                void setHeader(MacabHeader *_header);
+                MacabHeader *getHeader() const;
+
+                void setName(const OUString& _sName);
+                OUString const & getName() const;
+
+                MacabRecord *insertRecord(MacabRecord *_newRecord, const sal_Int32 _location);
+                void insertRecord(MacabRecord *_newRecord);
+                MacabRecord *getRecord(const sal_Int32 _location) const;
+                void swap(const sal_Int32 _id1, const sal_Int32 _id2);
+
+                macabfield *getField(const sal_Int32 _recordNumber, const sal_Int32 _columnNumber) const;
+                macabfield *getField(const sal_Int32 _recordNumber, std::u16string_view _columnName) const;
+                sal_Int32 getFieldNumber(std::u16string_view _columnName) const;
+
+                sal_Int32 size() const;
+
+                MacabHeader *createHeaderForRecordType(const CFArrayRef _records, const CFStringRef _recordType) const;
+                MacabRecord *createMacabRecord(const ABRecordRef _abrecord, const MacabHeader *_header, const CFStringRef _recordType) const;
+
+                MacabRecords *begin();
+                sal_Int32 end() const;
+                class iterator{
+                    protected:
+                        MacabRecords *records;
+                    public:
+                        sal_Int32 id;
+                        iterator& operator= (MacabRecords *_records);
+                        iterator();
+                        void operator++ ();
+                        bool operator!= (const sal_Int32 i) const;
+                        bool operator== (const sal_Int32 i) const;
+                        MacabRecord *operator* () const;
+                };
+
+        };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabResultSet.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabResultSet.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4142fcb6c
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+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabResultSet.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,1094 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "MacabResultSet.hxx"
+#include "MacabAddressBook.hxx"
+#include "MacabRecords.hxx"
+#include "macabutilities.hxx"
+#include "MacabResultSetMetaData.hxx"
+#include "MacabConnection.hxx"
+#include "macabcondition.hxx"
+#include "macaborder.hxx"
+#include <com/sun/star/beans/PropertyAttribute.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbcx/CompareBookmark.hpp>
+#include <TConnection.hxx>
+#include <cppuhelper/typeprovider.hxx>
+#include <comphelper/types.hxx>
+#include <connectivity/dbexception.hxx>
+#include <resource/sharedresources.hxx>
+#include <rtl/ref.hxx>
+#include <strings.hrc>
+
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+using namespace cppu;
+using namespace css::uno;
+using namespace css::lang;
+using namespace css::beans;
+using namespace css::sdbc;
+using namespace css::sdbcx;
+using namespace css::io;
+using namespace css::util;
+
+IMPLEMENT_SERVICE_INFO(MacabResultSet, "com.sun.star.sdbc.drivers.MacabResultSet", "com.sun.star.sdbc.ResultSet");
+
+MacabResultSet::MacabResultSet(MacabCommonStatement* pStmt)
+    : MacabResultSet_BASE(m_aMutex),
+      OPropertySetHelper(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper),
+      m_xStatement(pStmt),
+      m_aMacabRecords(),
+      m_nRowPos(-1),
+      m_bWasNull(true),
+      m_sTableName(MacabAddressBook::getDefaultTableName())
+{
+}
+
+MacabResultSet::~MacabResultSet()
+{
+}
+
+void MacabResultSet::allMacabRecords()
+{
+    rtl::Reference<MacabConnection> pConnection = static_cast< MacabConnection *>(m_xStatement->getConnection().get());
+
+    m_aMacabRecords = pConnection->getAddressBook()->getMacabRecords(m_sTableName);
+}
+
+void MacabResultSet::someMacabRecords(const MacabCondition *pCondition)
+{
+    rtl::Reference<MacabConnection> pConnection = static_cast< MacabConnection *>(m_xStatement->getConnection().get());
+    MacabRecords* allRecords;
+
+    allRecords = pConnection->getAddressBook()->getMacabRecords(m_sTableName);
+
+    // Bad table!! Throw exception?
+    if(allRecords == nullptr)
+        return;
+
+    if(m_aMacabRecords != nullptr && m_aMacabRecords != allRecords)
+        delete m_aMacabRecords;
+
+    // The copy constructor copies everything but records (including the
+    // maximum allocated size, which means that we'll never have to resize)
+    m_aMacabRecords = new MacabRecords(allRecords);
+
+    if(pCondition->isAlwaysFalse())
+    {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    MacabRecords::iterator iterator;
+
+    for (iterator = allRecords->begin();
+         iterator != allRecords->end();
+         ++iterator)
+    {
+        if (pCondition->eval(*iterator))
+            m_aMacabRecords->insertRecord(*iterator);
+    }
+}
+
+void MacabResultSet::sortMacabRecords(const MacabOrder *pOrder)
+{
+    // I do this with ints rather than an iterator because the ids will
+    // be changing when we change the order and ints are easier to deal
+    // with (for me).
+    sal_Int32 i, j, size, smallest;
+    size = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+
+    for(i = 0; i < size; i++)
+    {
+        smallest = i;
+        for( j = i + 1; j < size; j++)
+        {
+            // if smallest > j
+            if(pOrder->compare(m_aMacabRecords->getRecord(smallest),
+                        m_aMacabRecords->getRecord(j) ) > 0)
+            {
+                smallest = j;
+            }
+
+        }
+
+        if(smallest != i)
+        {
+            m_aMacabRecords->swap(i,smallest);
+        }
+    }
+
+}
+
+void MacabResultSet::setTableName(OUString const & _sTableName)
+{
+    m_sTableName = _sTableName;
+}
+
+void MacabResultSet::disposing()
+{
+    OPropertySetHelper::disposing();
+
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard(m_aMutex);
+
+    m_xStatement.clear();
+    m_xMetaData.clear();
+}
+
+Any SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::queryInterface(const Type & rType)
+{
+    Any aRet = OPropertySetHelper::queryInterface(rType);
+    if (!aRet.hasValue())
+        aRet = MacabResultSet_BASE::queryInterface(rType);
+    return aRet;
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::acquire() noexcept
+{
+    MacabResultSet_BASE::acquire();
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::release() noexcept
+{
+    MacabResultSet_BASE::release();
+}
+
+Sequence<  Type > SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getTypes()
+{
+    OTypeCollection aTypes(
+        cppu::UnoType<css::beans::XMultiPropertySet>::get(),
+        cppu::UnoType<css::beans::XFastPropertySet>::get(),
+        cppu::UnoType<css::beans::XPropertySet>::get());
+
+    return comphelper::concatSequences(aTypes.getTypes(), MacabResultSet_BASE::getTypes());
+}
+
+css::uno::Reference< css::beans::XPropertySetInfo > SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getPropertySetInfo(  )
+{
+    return ::cppu::OPropertySetHelper::createPropertySetInfo(getInfoHelper());
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::findColumn(const OUString& columnName)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // find the first column with the name columnName
+    Reference< XResultSetMetaData > xMeta = getMetaData();
+    sal_Int32 nLen = xMeta->getColumnCount();
+
+    for (sal_Int32 i = 1; i <= nLen; ++i)
+    {
+        if (xMeta->isCaseSensitive(i) ?
+            columnName == xMeta->getColumnName(i) :
+            columnName.equalsIgnoreAsciiCase(xMeta->getColumnName(i)))
+                return i;
+    }
+
+    ::dbtools::throwInvalidColumnException( columnName, *this );
+    assert(false);
+    return 0; // Never reached
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getString(sal_Int32 columnIndex)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    OUString aRet;
+    sal_Int32 nRecords = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+    m_bWasNull = true;
+
+    if (m_nRowPos != -1 && m_nRowPos != nRecords && m_xMetaData.is())
+    {
+        sal_Int32 nFieldNumber = m_xMetaData->fieldAtColumn(columnIndex);
+        macabfield *aField = m_aMacabRecords->getField(m_nRowPos,nFieldNumber);
+        if(aField != nullptr)
+        {
+            if(aField->type == kABStringProperty)
+            {
+                aRet = CFStringToOUString(static_cast<CFStringRef>(aField->value));
+                m_bWasNull = false;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+// Trigger an exception if m_bWasNull is true?
+    return aRet;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getBoolean(sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("getBoolean", nullptr);
+
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Int8 SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getByte(sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("getByte", nullptr);
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
+sal_Int16 SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getShort(sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("getShort", nullptr);
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getInt(sal_Int32 columnIndex)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    sal_Int32 nRet = 0;
+    sal_Int32 nRecords = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+    m_bWasNull = true;
+
+    if (m_nRowPos != -1 && m_nRowPos != nRecords && m_xMetaData.is())
+    {
+        sal_Int32 nFieldNumber = m_xMetaData->fieldAtColumn(columnIndex);
+        macabfield *aField = m_aMacabRecords->getField(m_nRowPos,nFieldNumber);
+        if(aField != nullptr)
+        {
+            if(aField->type == kABIntegerProperty)
+            {
+                CFNumberType numberType = CFNumberGetType( static_cast<CFNumberRef>(aField->value) );
+                // m_bWasNull now becomes whether getting the value was successful
+                // Should we check for the wrong type here, e.g., a float or a 64 bit int?
+                m_bWasNull = !CFNumberGetValue(static_cast<CFNumberRef>(aField->value), numberType, &nRet);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+// Trigger an exception if m_bWasNull is true?
+    return nRet;
+}
+
+sal_Int64 SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getLong(sal_Int32 columnIndex)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    sal_Int64 nRet = 0;
+    sal_Int32 nRecords = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+    m_bWasNull = true;
+
+    if (m_nRowPos != -1 && m_nRowPos != nRecords && m_xMetaData.is())
+    {
+        sal_Int32 nFieldNumber = m_xMetaData->fieldAtColumn(columnIndex);
+        macabfield *aField = m_aMacabRecords->getField(m_nRowPos,nFieldNumber);
+        if(aField != nullptr)
+        {
+            if(aField->type == kABIntegerProperty)
+            {
+                CFNumberType numberType = CFNumberGetType( static_cast<CFNumberRef>(aField->value) );
+                // m_bWasNull now becomes whether getting the value was successful
+                // Should we check for the wrong type here, e.g., a float or a 32 bit int?
+                m_bWasNull = !CFNumberGetValue(static_cast<CFNumberRef>(aField->value), numberType, &nRet);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+// Trigger an exception if m_bWasNull is true?
+    return nRet;
+}
+
+float SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getFloat(sal_Int32 columnIndex)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    float nVal = 0;
+    sal_Int32 nRecords = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+    m_bWasNull = true;
+
+    if (m_nRowPos != -1 && m_nRowPos != nRecords && m_xMetaData.is())
+    {
+        sal_Int32 nFieldNumber = m_xMetaData->fieldAtColumn(columnIndex);
+        macabfield *aField = m_aMacabRecords->getField(m_nRowPos,nFieldNumber);
+        if(aField != nullptr)
+        {
+            if(aField->type == kABRealProperty)
+            {
+                CFNumberType numberType = CFNumberGetType( static_cast<CFNumberRef>(aField->value) );
+                // m_bWasNull now becomes whether getting the value was successful
+                // Should we check for the wrong type here, e.g., an int or a double?
+                m_bWasNull = !CFNumberGetValue(static_cast<CFNumberRef>(aField->value), numberType, &nVal);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+// Trigger an exception if m_bWasNull is true?
+    return nVal;
+}
+
+double SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getDouble(sal_Int32 columnIndex)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    double nVal = 0;
+    sal_Int32 nRecords = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+    m_bWasNull = true;
+
+    if (m_nRowPos != -1 && m_nRowPos != nRecords && m_xMetaData.is())
+    {
+        sal_Int32 nFieldNumber = m_xMetaData->fieldAtColumn(columnIndex);
+        macabfield *aField = m_aMacabRecords->getField(m_nRowPos,nFieldNumber);
+        if(aField != nullptr)
+        {
+            if(aField->type == kABRealProperty)
+            {
+                CFNumberType numberType = CFNumberGetType( static_cast<CFNumberRef>(aField->value) );
+                // m_bWasNull now becomes whether getting the value was successful
+                // Should we check for the wrong type here, e.g., an int or a float?
+                m_bWasNull = !CFNumberGetValue(static_cast<CFNumberRef>(aField->value), numberType, &nVal);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+// Trigger an exception if m_bWasNull is true?
+    return nVal;
+}
+
+Sequence< sal_Int8 > SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getBytes(sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("getBytes", nullptr);
+
+    return Sequence< sal_Int8 >();
+}
+
+Date SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getDate(sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("getDate", nullptr);
+
+    Date aRet;
+    return aRet;
+}
+
+Time SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getTime(sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("getTime", nullptr);
+
+    css::util::Time nRet;
+    return nRet;
+}
+
+DateTime SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getTimestamp(sal_Int32 columnIndex)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    DateTime nRet;
+    sal_Int32 nRecords = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+    m_bWasNull = true;
+
+    if (m_nRowPos != -1 && m_nRowPos != nRecords && m_xMetaData.is())
+    {
+        sal_Int32 nFieldNumber = m_xMetaData->fieldAtColumn(columnIndex);
+        macabfield *aField = m_aMacabRecords->getField(m_nRowPos,nFieldNumber);
+        if(aField != nullptr)
+        {
+            if(aField->type == kABDateProperty)
+            {
+                nRet = CFDateToDateTime(static_cast<CFDateRef>(aField->value));
+                m_bWasNull = false;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+// Trigger an exception if m_bWasNull is true?
+    return nRet;
+}
+
+Reference< XInputStream > SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getBinaryStream(sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("getBinaryStream", nullptr);
+
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+Reference< XInputStream > SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getCharacterStream(sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("getCharacterStream", nullptr);
+
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+Any SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getObject(sal_Int32, const Reference< css::container::XNameAccess >&)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("getObject", nullptr);
+
+    return Any();
+}
+
+Reference< XRef > SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getRef(sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("getRef", nullptr);
+
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+Reference< XBlob > SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getBlob(sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("getBlob", nullptr);
+
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+Reference< XClob > SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getClob(sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("getClob", nullptr);
+
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+Reference< XArray > SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getArray(sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    ::dbtools::throwFunctionNotSupportedSQLException("getArray", nullptr);
+
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSetMetaData > SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getMetaData()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    if (!m_xMetaData.is())
+        m_xMetaData = new MacabResultSetMetaData(m_xStatement->getOwnConnection(), m_sTableName);
+
+    Reference< XResultSetMetaData > xMetaData = m_xMetaData;
+    return xMetaData;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::isBeforeFirst()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    if (m_nRowPos == -1)
+        return true;
+
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::isAfterLast()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    sal_Int32 nRecords = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+    if (m_nRowPos == nRecords)
+        return true;
+
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::isFirst()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    if (m_nRowPos == 0)
+        return true;
+
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::isLast()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    sal_Int32 nRecords = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+    if (m_nRowPos == nRecords - 1)
+        return true;
+
+    return false;
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::beforeFirst()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // move before the first row
+    m_nRowPos = -1;
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::afterLast()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // move after the last row
+    sal_Int32 nRecords = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+    m_nRowPos = nRecords;
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::close()
+{
+    {
+        ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+        checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+    }
+    dispose();
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::first()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    sal_Int32 nRecords = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+    if (nRecords == 0)
+        return false;
+
+    m_nRowPos = 0;
+    return true;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::last()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    sal_Int32 nRecords = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+    if (nRecords == 0)
+        return false;
+
+    m_nRowPos = nRecords - 1;
+    return true;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getRow()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    return m_nRowPos;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::absolute(sal_Int32 row)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    sal_Int32 nRecords = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+    if (row <= -1 ||
+        row >= nRecords)
+        return false;
+
+    m_nRowPos = row;
+    return true;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::relative(sal_Int32 row)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    return absolute(m_nRowPos + row);
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::next()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    return absolute(m_nRowPos + 1);
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::previous()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    return absolute(m_nRowPos - 1);
+}
+
+Reference< XInterface > SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getStatement()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    Reference< XStatement > xStatement = m_xStatement;
+    return xStatement;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::rowDeleted()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::rowInserted()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::rowUpdated()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::wasNull()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    return m_bWasNull;
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::cancel()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::clearWarnings()
+{
+}
+
+Any SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getWarnings()
+{
+    return Any();
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::insertRow()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // you only have to implement this if you want to insert new rows
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateRow()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // only when you allow updates
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::deleteRow()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::cancelRowUpdates()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::moveToInsertRow()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // only when you allow inserts
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::moveToCurrentRow()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateNull(sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateBoolean(sal_Int32, sal_Bool)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateByte(sal_Int32, sal_Int8)
+{
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateShort(sal_Int32, sal_Int16)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateInt(sal_Int32, sal_Int32)
+{
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateLong(sal_Int32, sal_Int64)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateFloat(sal_Int32, float)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateDouble(sal_Int32, double)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateString(sal_Int32, const OUString&)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateBytes(sal_Int32, const Sequence< sal_Int8 >&)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateDate(sal_Int32, const Date&)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateTime(sal_Int32, const css::util::Time&)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateTimestamp(sal_Int32, const DateTime&)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateBinaryStream(sal_Int32, const Reference< XInputStream >&, sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateCharacterStream(sal_Int32, const Reference< XInputStream >&, sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::refreshRow()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateObject(sal_Int32, const Any&)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::updateNumericObject(sal_Int32, const Any&, sal_Int32)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+}
+
+// XRowLocate
+Any SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::getBookmark()
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    sal_Int32 nRecords = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+
+    if (m_nRowPos != -1 && m_nRowPos != nRecords)
+    {
+        macabfield *uidField = m_aMacabRecords->getField(m_nRowPos,u"UID");
+        if(uidField != nullptr)
+        {
+            if(uidField->type == kABStringProperty)
+            {
+                return Any(CFStringToOUString( static_cast<CFStringRef>(uidField->value) ));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return Any();
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::moveToBookmark(const  Any& bookmark)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    OUString sBookmark = comphelper::getString(bookmark);
+    sal_Int32 nRecords = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+
+    for (sal_Int32 nRow = 0; nRow < nRecords; nRow++)
+    {
+        macabfield *uidField = m_aMacabRecords->getField(m_nRowPos,u"UID");
+        if(uidField != nullptr)
+        {
+            if(uidField->type == kABStringProperty)
+            {
+                OUString sUniqueIdentifier = CFStringToOUString( static_cast<CFStringRef>(uidField->value) );
+                if (sUniqueIdentifier == sBookmark)
+                {
+                    m_nRowPos = nRow;
+                    return true;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::moveRelativeToBookmark(const  Any& bookmark, sal_Int32 rows)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    sal_Int32 nRowSave = m_nRowPos;
+
+    if (moveToBookmark(bookmark))
+    {
+        sal_Int32 nRecords = m_aMacabRecords->size();
+
+        m_nRowPos += rows;
+
+        if (-1 < m_nRowPos && m_nRowPos < nRecords)
+            return true;
+    }
+
+    m_nRowPos = nRowSave;
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::compareBookmarks(const  Any& firstItem, const  Any& secondItem)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    OUString sFirst = comphelper::getString(firstItem);
+    OUString sSecond = comphelper::getString(secondItem);
+
+    if (sFirst < sSecond)
+        return CompareBookmark::LESS;
+    if (sFirst > sSecond)
+        return CompareBookmark::GREATER;
+    return CompareBookmark::EQUAL;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::hasOrderedBookmarks()
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::hashBookmark(const  Any& bookmark)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    OUString sBookmark = comphelper::getString(bookmark);
+
+    return sBookmark.hashCode();
+}
+
+// XDeleteRows
+Sequence< sal_Int32 > SAL_CALL MacabResultSet::deleteRows(const  Sequence<  Any >&)
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(MacabResultSet_BASE::rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    return Sequence< sal_Int32 >();
+}
+
+IPropertyArrayHelper* MacabResultSet::createArrayHelper() const
+{
+    return new OPropertyArrayHelper
+    {
+        {
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_CURSORNAME),
+                PROPERTY_ID_CURSORNAME,
+                cppu::UnoType<OUString>::get(),
+                PropertyAttribute::READONLY
+            },
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_FETCHDIRECTION),
+                PROPERTY_ID_FETCHDIRECTION,
+                cppu::UnoType<sal_Int32>::get(),
+                0
+            },
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_FETCHSIZE),
+                PROPERTY_ID_FETCHSIZE,
+                cppu::UnoType<sal_Int32>::get(),
+                0
+            },
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_ISBOOKMARKABLE),
+                PROPERTY_ID_ISBOOKMARKABLE,
+                cppu::UnoType<bool>::get(),
+                PropertyAttribute::READONLY
+            },
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETCONCURRENCY),
+                PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETCONCURRENCY,
+                cppu::UnoType<sal_Int32>::get(),
+                PropertyAttribute::READONLY
+            },
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETTYPE),
+                PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETTYPE,
+                cppu::UnoType<sal_Int32>::get(),
+                PropertyAttribute::READONLY
+            }
+        }
+    };
+}
+
+IPropertyArrayHelper & MacabResultSet::getInfoHelper()
+{
+    return *getArrayHelper();
+}
+
+sal_Bool MacabResultSet::convertFastPropertyValue(
+            Any &,
+            Any &,
+            sal_Int32 nHandle,
+            const Any& )
+{
+    switch (nHandle)
+    {
+        case PROPERTY_ID_ISBOOKMARKABLE:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_CURSORNAME:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETCONCURRENCY:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETTYPE:
+            throw css::lang::IllegalArgumentException();
+            break;
+        case PROPERTY_ID_FETCHDIRECTION:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_FETCHSIZE:
+        default:
+            ;
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+
+void MacabResultSet::setFastPropertyValue_NoBroadcast(
+            sal_Int32 nHandle,
+            const Any& )
+{
+    switch (nHandle)
+    {
+        case PROPERTY_ID_ISBOOKMARKABLE:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_CURSORNAME:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETCONCURRENCY:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETTYPE:
+            throw Exception("cannot set prop " + OUString::number(nHandle), nullptr);
+            break;
+        case PROPERTY_ID_FETCHDIRECTION:
+            break;
+        case PROPERTY_ID_FETCHSIZE:
+            break;
+        default:
+            ;
+    }
+}
+
+void MacabResultSet::getFastPropertyValue(
+            Any& _rValue,
+            sal_Int32 nHandle) const
+{
+    switch (nHandle)
+    {
+        case PROPERTY_ID_ISBOOKMARKABLE:
+            _rValue <<= false;
+            break;
+        case PROPERTY_ID_CURSORNAME:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETCONCURRENCY:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETTYPE:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_FETCHDIRECTION:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_FETCHSIZE:
+            ;
+    }
+}
+
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabResultSet.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabResultSet.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..306ef562d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabResultSet.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "MacabStatement.hxx"
+#include "MacabResultSetMetaData.hxx"
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XRow.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XResultSetMetaDataSupplier.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XColumnLocate.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XResultSetUpdate.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XRowUpdate.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbcx/XRowLocate.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbcx/XDeleteRows.hpp>
+#include <cppuhelper/compbase.hxx>
+#include <cppuhelper/basemutex.hxx>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+        /*
+        **  MacabResultSet
+        */
+        typedef ::cppu::WeakComponentImplHelper<      css::sdbc::XResultSet,
+                                                      css::sdbc::XRow,
+                                                      css::sdbc::XResultSetMetaDataSupplier,
+                                                      css::util::XCancellable,
+                                                      css::sdbc::XWarningsSupplier,
+                                                      css::sdbc::XResultSetUpdate,
+                                                      css::sdbc::XRowUpdate,
+                                                      css::sdbcx::XRowLocate,
+                                                      css::sdbcx::XDeleteRows,
+                                                      css::sdbc::XCloseable,
+                                                      css::sdbc::XColumnLocate,
+                                                      css::lang::XServiceInfo> MacabResultSet_BASE;
+        class MacabRecords;
+
+        class MacabResultSet : public   cppu::BaseMutex,
+                             public MacabResultSet_BASE,
+                             public ::cppu::OPropertySetHelper,
+                             public comphelper::OPropertyArrayUsageHelper<MacabResultSet>
+        {
+        protected:
+            ::rtl::Reference< MacabCommonStatement >        m_xStatement;       // the statement that has created this result set
+            ::rtl::Reference< MacabResultSetMetaData >  m_xMetaData;        // the description of the columns in this result set
+            MacabRecords *                      m_aMacabRecords;    // address book entries matching the query
+            sal_Int32                                   m_nRowPos;          // the current row within the result set
+            bool                                    m_bWasNull;         // last entry retrieved from this result set was NULL
+            OUString                     m_sTableName;
+
+            // OPropertyArrayUsageHelper
+            virtual ::cppu::IPropertyArrayHelper* createArrayHelper( ) const override;
+
+            // OPropertySetHelper
+            virtual ::cppu::IPropertyArrayHelper & SAL_CALL getInfoHelper() override;
+
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL convertFastPropertyValue(
+                                css::uno::Any & rConvertedValue,
+                                css::uno::Any & rOldValue,
+                                sal_Int32 nHandle,
+                                const css::uno::Any& rValue) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setFastPropertyValue_NoBroadcast(
+                                sal_Int32 nHandle,
+                                const css::uno::Any& rValue) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL getFastPropertyValue(
+                                css::uno::Any& rValue,
+                                sal_Int32 nHandle) const override;
+
+            // you can't delete objects of this type
+            virtual ~MacabResultSet() override;
+
+        public:
+            DECLARE_SERVICE_INFO();
+
+            explicit MacabResultSet(MacabCommonStatement *pStmt);
+
+            css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface > operator *()
+            {
+                return css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface >(*static_cast<MacabResultSet_BASE*>(this));
+            }
+
+            void allMacabRecords();
+            void someMacabRecords(const class MacabCondition *pCondition);
+            void sortMacabRecords(const class MacabOrder *pOrder);
+            void setTableName(const OUString& _sTableName);
+
+            // ::cppu::OComponentHelper
+            virtual void SAL_CALL disposing() override;
+
+            // XInterface
+            virtual css::uno::Any SAL_CALL queryInterface( const css::uno::Type & rType ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL acquire() noexcept override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL release() noexcept override;
+
+            // XTypeProvider
+            virtual css::uno::Sequence< css::uno::Type > SAL_CALL getTypes(  ) override;
+
+            // XPropertySet
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::beans::XPropertySetInfo > SAL_CALL getPropertySetInfo(  ) override;
+
+            // XResultSet
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isBeforeFirst(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isAfterLast(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isFirst(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isLast(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL beforeFirst(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL afterLast(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL first(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL last(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getRow(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL absolute( sal_Int32 row ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL relative( sal_Int32 rows ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL next(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL previous(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL refreshRow(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL rowUpdated(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL rowInserted(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL rowDeleted(  ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface > SAL_CALL getStatement(  ) override;
+
+            // XRow
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL wasNull(  ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getString( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL getBoolean( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int8 SAL_CALL getByte( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int16 SAL_CALL getShort( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getInt( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int64 SAL_CALL getLong( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual float SAL_CALL getFloat( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual double SAL_CALL getDouble( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int8 > SAL_CALL getBytes( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual css::util::Date SAL_CALL getDate( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual css::util::Time SAL_CALL getTime( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual css::util::DateTime SAL_CALL getTimestamp( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::io::XInputStream > SAL_CALL getBinaryStream( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::io::XInputStream > SAL_CALL getCharacterStream( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Any SAL_CALL getObject( sal_Int32 columnIndex, const css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameAccess >& typeMap ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XRef > SAL_CALL getRef( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XBlob > SAL_CALL getBlob( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XClob > SAL_CALL getClob( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XArray > SAL_CALL getArray( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+
+            // XResultSetMetaDataSupplier
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSetMetaData > SAL_CALL getMetaData(  ) override;
+
+            // XCancellable
+            virtual void SAL_CALL cancel(  ) override;
+
+            // XCloseable
+            virtual void SAL_CALL close(  ) override;
+
+            // XWarningsSupplier
+            virtual css::uno::Any SAL_CALL getWarnings(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL clearWarnings(  ) override;
+
+            // XResultSetUpdate
+            virtual void SAL_CALL insertRow(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateRow(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL deleteRow(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL cancelRowUpdates(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL moveToInsertRow(  ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL moveToCurrentRow(  ) override;
+            // XRowUpdate
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateNull( sal_Int32 columnIndex ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateBoolean( sal_Int32 columnIndex, sal_Bool x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateByte( sal_Int32 columnIndex, sal_Int8 x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateShort( sal_Int32 columnIndex, sal_Int16 x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateInt( sal_Int32 columnIndex, sal_Int32 x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateLong( sal_Int32 columnIndex, sal_Int64 x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateFloat( sal_Int32 columnIndex, float x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateDouble( sal_Int32 columnIndex, double x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateString( sal_Int32 columnIndex, const OUString& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateBytes( sal_Int32 columnIndex, const css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int8 >& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateDate( sal_Int32 columnIndex, const css::util::Date& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateTime( sal_Int32 columnIndex, const css::util::Time& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateTimestamp( sal_Int32 columnIndex, const css::util::DateTime& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateBinaryStream( sal_Int32 columnIndex, const css::uno::Reference< css::io::XInputStream >& x, sal_Int32 length ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateCharacterStream( sal_Int32 columnIndex, const css::uno::Reference< css::io::XInputStream >& x, sal_Int32 length ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateObject( sal_Int32 columnIndex, const css::uno::Any& x ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL updateNumericObject( sal_Int32 columnIndex, const css::uno::Any& x, sal_Int32 scale ) override;
+
+            // XColumnLocate
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL findColumn( const OUString& columnName ) override;
+
+            // XRowLocate
+            virtual css::uno::Any SAL_CALL getBookmark(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL moveToBookmark( const css::uno::Any& bookmark ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL moveRelativeToBookmark( const css::uno::Any& bookmark, sal_Int32 rows ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL compareBookmarks( const css::uno::Any& firstItem, const css::uno::Any& secondItem ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL hasOrderedBookmarks(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL hashBookmark( const css::uno::Any& bookmark ) override;
+
+            // XDeleteRows
+            virtual css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int32 > SAL_CALL deleteRows( const css::uno::Sequence< css::uno::Any >& rows ) override;
+        };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabResultSetMetaData.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabResultSetMetaData.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e08d92cfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabResultSetMetaData.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,216 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "MacabResultSetMetaData.hxx"
+#include "MacabHeader.hxx"
+#include "MacabRecords.hxx"
+#include "MacabAddressBook.hxx"
+#include "macabutilities.hxx"
+#include <connectivity/dbexception.hxx>
+#include <strings.hrc>
+
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+using namespace com::sun::star::uno;
+using namespace com::sun::star::lang;
+using namespace com::sun::star::sdbc;
+
+MacabResultSetMetaData::MacabResultSetMetaData(MacabConnection* _pConnection, OUString const & _sTableName)
+    : m_pConnection(_pConnection),
+        m_sTableName(_sTableName),
+      m_aMacabFields()
+{
+}
+
+MacabResultSetMetaData::~MacabResultSetMetaData()
+{
+}
+
+void MacabResultSetMetaData::setMacabFields(const ::rtl::Reference<connectivity::OSQLColumns> &xColumns)
+{
+    static constexpr OUStringLiteral aName = u"Name";
+    MacabRecords *aRecords;
+    MacabHeader *aHeader;
+
+    aRecords = m_pConnection->getAddressBook()->getMacabRecords(m_sTableName);
+
+    // In case, somehow, we don't have anything with the name m_sTableName
+    if(aRecords == nullptr)
+    {
+        impl_throwError(STR_NO_TABLE);
+    }
+
+    aHeader = aRecords->getHeader();
+
+    for (const auto& rxColumn : *xColumns)
+    {
+        OUString aFieldName;
+        sal_uInt32 nFieldNumber;
+
+        rxColumn->getPropertyValue(aName) >>= aFieldName;
+        nFieldNumber = aHeader->getColumnNumber(aFieldName);
+        m_aMacabFields.push_back(nFieldNumber);
+    }
+
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::getColumnDisplaySize(sal_Int32 /* column */)
+{
+    // For now, all columns are the same size.
+    return 50;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::getColumnType(sal_Int32 column)
+{
+    MacabRecords *aRecords;
+    MacabHeader *aHeader;
+    macabfield *aField;
+
+    aRecords = m_pConnection->getAddressBook()->getMacabRecords(m_sTableName);
+
+    // In case, somehow, we don't have anything with the name m_sTableName
+    if(aRecords == nullptr)
+    {
+        impl_throwError(STR_NO_TABLE);
+    }
+
+    aHeader = aRecords->getHeader();
+    aField = aHeader->get(column-1);
+
+    if(aField == nullptr)
+    {
+        ::dbtools::throwInvalidIndexException(*this);
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    return ABTypeToDataType(aField->type);
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::getColumnCount()
+{
+    return m_aMacabFields.size();
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::isCaseSensitive(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return true;
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::getSchemaName(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::getColumnName(sal_Int32 column)
+{
+    sal_uInt32 nFieldNumber = m_aMacabFields[column - 1];
+    MacabRecords *aRecords;
+    MacabHeader *aHeader;
+
+    aRecords = m_pConnection->getAddressBook()->getMacabRecords(m_sTableName);
+
+    // In case, somehow, we don't have anything with the name m_sTableName
+    if(aRecords == nullptr)
+    {
+        impl_throwError(STR_NO_TABLE);
+    }
+
+    aHeader = aRecords->getHeader();
+    OUString aName = aHeader->getString(nFieldNumber);
+
+    return aName;
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::getTableName(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return m_sTableName;
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::getCatalogName(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::getColumnTypeName(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::getColumnLabel(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+OUString SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::getColumnServiceName(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return OUString();
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::isCurrency(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::isAutoIncrement(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::isSigned(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::getPrecision(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return 0;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::getScale(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return 0;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::isNullable(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return sal_Int32(true);
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::isSearchable(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return true;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::isReadOnly(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return true;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::isDefinitelyWritable(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabResultSetMetaData::isWritable(sal_Int32)
+{
+    return false;
+}
+
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabResultSetMetaData.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabResultSetMetaData.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b82088154
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabResultSetMetaData.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "MacabConnection.hxx"
+#include <connectivity/CommonTools.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XResultSetMetaData.hpp>
+#include <cppuhelper/implbase.hxx>
+#include <rtl/ref.hxx>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+        /*
+        **  MacabResultSetMetaData
+        */
+        class MacabResultSetMetaData : public ::cppu::WeakImplHelper< css::sdbc::XResultSetMetaData>
+        {
+            MacabConnection*                m_pConnection;
+            OUString                 m_sTableName;
+            std::vector<sal_Int32>    m_aMacabFields; // for each selected column, contains the number
+                                                        //  of the corresponding AddressBook field
+
+        protected:
+            virtual ~MacabResultSetMetaData() override;
+
+        public:
+            MacabResultSetMetaData(MacabConnection* _pConnection, OUString const & _sTableName);
+
+            // avoid ambiguous cast error from the compiler
+            operator css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSetMetaData > () noexcept
+                { return this; }
+
+            /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+            void setMacabFields(
+                const ::rtl::Reference<connectivity::OSQLColumns> &xColumns);
+            sal_uInt32 fieldAtColumn(sal_Int32 columnIndex) const
+                { return m_aMacabFields[columnIndex - 1]; }
+
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getColumnCount(  ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isAutoIncrement( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isCaseSensitive( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isSearchable( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isCurrency( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL isNullable( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isSigned( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getColumnDisplaySize( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getColumnLabel( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getColumnName( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getSchemaName( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getPrecision( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getScale( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getTableName( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getCatalogName( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getColumnType( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getColumnTypeName( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isReadOnly( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isWritable( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isDefinitelyWritable( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+            virtual OUString SAL_CALL getColumnServiceName( sal_Int32 column ) override;
+        };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabStatement.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabStatement.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..95b922ce6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabStatement.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,631 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "MacabStatement.hxx"
+#include <sqlbison.hxx>
+#include "MacabConnection.hxx"
+#include "MacabAddressBook.hxx"
+#include "MacabDriver.hxx"
+#include "MacabResultSet.hxx"
+#include "MacabResultSetMetaData.hxx"
+#include "macabcondition.hxx"
+#include "macaborder.hxx"
+#include "macabutilities.hxx"
+#include <TConnection.hxx>
+#include <cppuhelper/typeprovider.hxx>
+#include <connectivity/dbexception.hxx>
+#include <resource/sharedresources.hxx>
+#include <rtl/ref.hxx>
+#include <strings.hrc>
+
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+using namespace com::sun::star::uno;
+using namespace com::sun::star::lang;
+using namespace com::sun::star::beans;
+using namespace com::sun::star::sdbc;
+using namespace com::sun::star::sdbcx;
+using namespace com::sun::star::container;
+using namespace com::sun::star::io;
+using namespace com::sun::star::util;
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+    void impl_throwError(TranslateId pErrorId)
+    {
+        ::connectivity::SharedResources aResources;
+        const OUString sError( aResources.getResourceString(pErrorId) );
+        ::dbtools::throwGenericSQLException(sError,nullptr);
+    }
+}
+
+IMPLEMENT_SERVICE_INFO(MacabStatement, "com.sun.star.sdbc.drivers.MacabStatement", "com.sun.star.sdbc.Statement");
+
+MacabCommonStatement::MacabCommonStatement(MacabConnection* _pConnection )
+    : MacabCommonStatement_BASE(m_aMutex),
+    OPropertySetHelper(rBHelper),
+    m_aParser(_pConnection->getDriver()->getComponentContext()),
+    m_aSQLIterator(_pConnection, _pConnection->createCatalog()->getTables(), m_aParser ),
+    m_pParseTree(nullptr),
+    m_pConnection(_pConnection)
+{
+    m_pConnection->acquire();
+}
+
+MacabCommonStatement::~MacabCommonStatement()
+{
+}
+
+void MacabCommonStatement::resetParameters() const
+{
+}
+
+void MacabCommonStatement::getNextParameter(OUString &) const
+{
+    impl_throwError(STR_PARA_ONLY_PREPARED);
+}
+
+MacabCondition *MacabCommonStatement::analyseWhereClause(const OSQLParseNode *pParseNode) const
+{
+    if (pParseNode->count() == 3)
+    {
+        const OSQLParseNode *pLeft = pParseNode->getChild(0),
+                            *pMiddle = pParseNode->getChild(1),
+                            *pRight = pParseNode->getChild(2);
+
+        // WHERE ( ... ) ?
+        if (SQL_ISPUNCTUATION(pLeft, "(") && SQL_ISPUNCTUATION(pRight, ")"))
+        {
+              return analyseWhereClause(pMiddle);
+        }
+        else if (SQL_ISRULE(pParseNode, comparison_predicate))
+        {
+            if (pLeft->isToken() && pRight->isToken())
+            {
+                switch (pMiddle->getNodeType())
+                {
+                    case SQLNodeType::Equal:
+                        // WHERE 0 = 1
+                        return new MacabConditionConstant(pLeft->getTokenValue() == pRight->getTokenValue());
+
+                    case SQLNodeType::NotEqual:
+                        // WHERE 0 <> 1
+                        // (might not be correct SQL... don't care, handling anyway)
+                        return new MacabConditionConstant(pLeft->getTokenValue() != pRight->getTokenValue());
+
+                    default:
+                        break;
+                }
+            }
+            else if (SQL_ISRULE(pLeft, column_ref))
+            {
+                OUString sColumnName,
+                                sTableRange;
+
+                m_aSQLIterator.getColumnRange(pLeft, sColumnName, sTableRange);
+
+                if (pRight->isToken() || SQL_ISRULE(pRight, parameter))
+                {
+                    OUString sMatchString;
+
+                    if (pRight->isToken())                      // WHERE Name = 'Doe'
+                        sMatchString = pRight->getTokenValue();
+                    else if (SQL_ISRULE(pRight, parameter))     // WHERE Name = ?
+                        getNextParameter(sMatchString);
+
+                    switch (pMiddle->getNodeType())
+                    {
+                        case SQLNodeType::Equal:
+                            // WHERE Name = 'Smith'
+                            return new MacabConditionEqual(m_pHeader, sColumnName, sMatchString);
+
+                         case SQLNodeType::NotEqual:
+                            // WHERE Name <> 'Jones'
+                            return new MacabConditionDifferent(m_pHeader, sColumnName, sMatchString);
+
+                        default:
+                            break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        else if (SQL_ISRULE(pParseNode, search_condition))
+        {
+            if (SQL_ISTOKEN(pMiddle, OR))
+            {
+                // WHERE Name = 'Smith' OR Name = 'Jones'
+                return new MacabConditionOr(
+                    analyseWhereClause(pLeft),
+                    analyseWhereClause(pRight));
+            }
+        }
+        else if (SQL_ISRULE(pParseNode, boolean_term))
+        {
+            if (SQL_ISTOKEN(pMiddle, AND))
+            {
+                // WHERE Name = 'Smith' AND "Given Name" = 'Peter'
+                return new MacabConditionAnd(
+                    analyseWhereClause(pLeft),
+                    analyseWhereClause(pRight));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    else if (SQL_ISRULE(pParseNode, test_for_null) || SQL_ISRULE(pParseNode, like_predicate))
+    {
+        const OSQLParseNode *pLeft = pParseNode->getChild(0);
+        const OSQLParseNode* pPart2 = pParseNode->getChild(1);
+        const OSQLParseNode *pMiddleLeft = pPart2->getChild(0),
+                            *pMiddleRight = pPart2->getChild(1),
+                            *pRight = pPart2->getChild(2);
+
+        if (SQL_ISRULE(pParseNode, test_for_null))
+        {
+            if (SQL_ISRULE(pLeft, column_ref) &&
+                            SQL_ISTOKEN(pMiddleLeft, IS) &&
+                            SQL_ISTOKEN(pRight, NULL))
+            {
+                OUString sColumnName,
+                                sTableRange;
+
+                m_aSQLIterator.getColumnRange(pLeft, sColumnName, sTableRange);
+
+                if (SQL_ISTOKEN(pMiddleRight, NOT))
+                {
+                    // WHERE "Mobile Phone" IS NOT NULL
+                    return new MacabConditionNotNull(m_pHeader, sColumnName);
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    // WHERE "Mobile Phone" IS NULL
+                    return new MacabConditionNull(m_pHeader, sColumnName);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        else if (SQL_ISRULE(pParseNode, like_predicate))
+        {
+            if (SQL_ISRULE(pLeft, column_ref))
+            {
+                OUString sColumnName,
+                                sTableRange;
+
+                m_aSQLIterator.getColumnRange(pLeft, sColumnName, sTableRange);
+
+                if (pMiddleRight->isToken() || SQL_ISRULE(pMiddleRight, parameter))
+                {
+                    OUString sMatchString;
+
+                    if (pMiddleRight->isToken())                    // WHERE Name LIKE 'Sm%'
+                        sMatchString = pMiddleRight->getTokenValue();
+                    else if (SQL_ISRULE(pMiddleRight, parameter))   // WHERE Name LIKE ?
+                        getNextParameter(sMatchString);
+
+                    return new MacabConditionSimilar(m_pHeader, sColumnName, sMatchString);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    impl_throwError(STR_QUERY_TOO_COMPLEX);
+    // Unreachable:
+    OSL_ASSERT(false);
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+MacabOrder *MacabCommonStatement::analyseOrderByClause(const OSQLParseNode *pParseNode) const
+{
+    if (SQL_ISRULE(pParseNode, ordering_spec_commalist))
+    {
+        MacabComplexOrder *list = new MacabComplexOrder();
+        sal_uInt32 n = pParseNode->count();
+
+        // Iterate through the ordering columns
+        for (sal_uInt32 i = 0; i < n; i++)
+        {
+            list->addOrder
+                (analyseOrderByClause(pParseNode->getChild(i)));
+        }
+
+        return list;
+    }
+    else if (SQL_ISRULE(pParseNode, ordering_spec))
+    {
+        if (pParseNode->count() == 2)
+        {
+            OSQLParseNode* pColumnRef = pParseNode->getChild(0);
+            OSQLParseNode* pAscendingDescending = pParseNode->getChild(1);
+
+            if (SQL_ISRULE(pColumnRef, column_ref))
+            {
+                if (pColumnRef->count() == 3)
+                    pColumnRef = pColumnRef->getChild(2);
+
+                if (pColumnRef->count() == 1)
+                {
+                    OUString sColumnName =
+                        pColumnRef->getChild(0)->getTokenValue();
+                    bool bAscending =
+                        !SQL_ISTOKEN(pAscendingDescending, DESC);
+
+                    return new MacabSimpleOrder(m_pHeader, sColumnName, bAscending);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    impl_throwError(STR_QUERY_TOO_COMPLEX);
+    // Unreachable:
+    OSL_ASSERT(false);
+    return nullptr;
+}
+
+OUString MacabCommonStatement::getTableName() const
+{
+    const OSQLTables& xTabs = m_aSQLIterator.getTables();
+
+    if( xTabs.empty() )
+        return OUString();
+
+    // can only deal with one table at a time
+    if(xTabs.size() > 1 || m_aSQLIterator.hasErrors() )
+        return OUString();
+
+    return xTabs.begin()->first;
+}
+
+void MacabCommonStatement::setMacabFields(MacabResultSet *pResult) const
+{
+    ::rtl::Reference<connectivity::OSQLColumns> xColumns;   // selected columns
+    rtl::Reference<MacabResultSetMetaData> pMeta;           // meta information - holds the list of AddressBook fields
+
+    xColumns = m_aSQLIterator.getSelectColumns();
+    if (!xColumns.is())
+    {
+        ::connectivity::SharedResources aResources;
+        const OUString sError( aResources.getResourceString(
+                STR_INVALID_COLUMN_SELECTION
+             ) );
+        ::dbtools::throwGenericSQLException(sError,nullptr);
+    }
+    pMeta = static_cast<MacabResultSetMetaData *>(pResult->getMetaData().get());
+    pMeta->setMacabFields(xColumns);
+}
+
+void MacabCommonStatement::selectRecords(MacabResultSet *pResult) const
+{
+    const OSQLParseNode *pParseNode;
+
+    pParseNode = m_aSQLIterator.getWhereTree();
+    if (pParseNode != nullptr)
+    {
+        if (SQL_ISRULE(pParseNode, where_clause))
+        {
+            resetParameters();
+            pParseNode = pParseNode->getChild(1);
+            MacabCondition *pCondition = analyseWhereClause(pParseNode);
+            if (pCondition->isAlwaysTrue())
+                pResult->allMacabRecords();
+            else
+                pResult->someMacabRecords(pCondition);
+            delete pCondition;
+            return;
+        }
+    }
+
+    // no WHERE clause: get all rows
+    pResult->allMacabRecords();
+}
+
+void MacabCommonStatement::sortRecords(MacabResultSet *pResult) const
+{
+    const OSQLParseNode *pParseNode;
+
+    pParseNode = m_aSQLIterator.getOrderTree();
+    if (pParseNode != nullptr)
+    {
+        if (SQL_ISRULE(pParseNode, opt_order_by_clause))
+        {
+            pParseNode = pParseNode->getChild(2);
+            MacabOrder *pOrder = analyseOrderByClause(pParseNode);
+            pResult->sortMacabRecords(pOrder);
+            delete pOrder;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+Any SAL_CALL MacabCommonStatement::queryInterface( const Type & rType )
+{
+    Any aRet = MacabCommonStatement_BASE::queryInterface(rType);
+    if (!aRet.hasValue())
+        aRet = OPropertySetHelper::queryInterface(rType);
+    return aRet;
+}
+
+Sequence< Type > SAL_CALL MacabCommonStatement::getTypes(  )
+{
+    ::cppu::OTypeCollection aTypes( cppu::UnoType<XMultiPropertySet>::get(),
+                                    cppu::UnoType<XFastPropertySet>::get(),
+                                    cppu::UnoType<XPropertySet>::get());
+
+    return comphelper::concatSequences(aTypes.getTypes(),MacabCommonStatement_BASE::getTypes());
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabCommonStatement::cancel(  )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+
+    checkDisposed(rBHelper.bDisposed);
+    // cancel the current sql statement
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabCommonStatement::close(  )
+{
+    {
+        ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+        checkDisposed(rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    }
+    dispose();
+}
+
+sal_Bool SAL_CALL MacabCommonStatement::execute(
+        const OUString& sql )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    Reference< XResultSet > xRS = executeQuery(sql);
+
+    return xRS.is();
+}
+
+Reference< XResultSet > SAL_CALL MacabCommonStatement::executeQuery(
+        const OUString& sql )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    rtl::Reference<MacabResultSet> pResult = new MacabResultSet(this);
+    OUString aErr;
+
+    m_pParseTree = m_aParser.parseTree(aErr, sql).release();
+    if (m_pParseTree == nullptr)
+        throw SQLException(aErr, *this, aErr, 0, Any());
+
+    m_aSQLIterator.setParseTree(m_pParseTree);
+    m_aSQLIterator.traverseAll();
+    switch (m_aSQLIterator.getStatementType())
+    {
+        case OSQLStatementType::Select:
+            {
+            OUString sTableName = getTableName(); // FROM which table ?
+            if (sTableName.getLength() != 0) // a match
+            {
+                MacabRecords *aRecords;
+                aRecords = m_pConnection->getAddressBook()->getMacabRecords(sTableName);
+
+                // In case, somehow, we don't have anything with the name m_sTableName
+                if(aRecords == nullptr)
+                {
+                    impl_throwError(STR_NO_TABLE);
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    m_pHeader = aRecords->getHeader();
+
+                    pResult->setTableName(sTableName);
+
+                    setMacabFields(pResult.get());        // SELECT which columns ?
+                    selectRecords(pResult.get()); // WHERE which condition ?
+                    sortRecords(pResult.get());   // ORDER BY which columns ?
+                }
+// To be continued: DISTINCT
+//                  etc...
+            }
+            }
+            break;
+
+        default:
+// To be continued: UPDATE
+//                  DELETE
+//                  etc...
+            impl_throwError(STR_QUERY_TOO_COMPLEX);
+    }
+
+    m_xResultSet = Reference<XResultSet>(pResult);
+    return pResult;
+}
+
+Reference< XConnection > SAL_CALL MacabCommonStatement::getConnection(  )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // just return our connection here
+    return m_pConnection;
+}
+
+sal_Int32 SAL_CALL MacabCommonStatement::executeUpdate( const OUString& )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    // the return values gives information about how many rows are affected by executing the sql statement
+    return 0;
+}
+
+Any SAL_CALL MacabCommonStatement::getWarnings(  )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    return Any(m_aLastWarning);
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabCommonStatement::clearWarnings(  )
+{
+    ::osl::MutexGuard aGuard( m_aMutex );
+    checkDisposed(rBHelper.bDisposed);
+
+    m_aLastWarning = SQLWarning();
+}
+
+::cppu::IPropertyArrayHelper* MacabCommonStatement::createArrayHelper( ) const
+{
+    // this properties are defined by the service statement
+    // they must be in alphabetic order
+    return new ::cppu::OPropertyArrayHelper
+    {
+        {
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_CURSORNAME),
+                PROPERTY_ID_CURSORNAME,
+                cppu::UnoType<OUString>::get(),
+                0
+            },
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_ESCAPEPROCESSING),
+                PROPERTY_ID_ESCAPEPROCESSING,
+                cppu::UnoType<bool>::get(),
+                0
+            },
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_FETCHDIRECTION),
+                PROPERTY_ID_FETCHDIRECTION,
+                cppu::UnoType<sal_Int32>::get(),
+                0
+            },
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_FETCHSIZE),
+                PROPERTY_ID_FETCHSIZE,
+                cppu::UnoType<sal_Int32>::get(),
+                0
+            },
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_MAXFIELDSIZE),
+                PROPERTY_ID_MAXFIELDSIZE,
+                cppu::UnoType<sal_Int32>::get(),
+                0
+            },
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_MAXROWS),
+                PROPERTY_ID_MAXROWS,
+                cppu::UnoType<sal_Int32>::get(),
+                0
+            },
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_QUERYTIMEOUT),
+                PROPERTY_ID_QUERYTIMEOUT,
+                cppu::UnoType<sal_Int32>::get(),
+                0
+            },
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETCONCURRENCY),
+                PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETCONCURRENCY,
+                cppu::UnoType<sal_Int32>::get(),
+                0
+            },
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETTYPE),
+                PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETTYPE,
+                cppu::UnoType<sal_Int32>::get(),
+                0
+            },
+            {
+                ::connectivity::OMetaConnection::getPropMap().getNameByIndex(PROPERTY_ID_USEBOOKMARKS),
+                PROPERTY_ID_USEBOOKMARKS,
+                cppu::UnoType<bool>::get(),
+                0
+            }
+        }
+    };
+}
+
+::cppu::IPropertyArrayHelper & MacabCommonStatement::getInfoHelper()
+{
+    return *getArrayHelper();
+}
+
+sal_Bool MacabCommonStatement::convertFastPropertyValue(
+        Any &,
+        Any &,
+        sal_Int32,
+        const Any&)
+{
+    // here we have to try to convert
+    return false;
+}
+
+void MacabCommonStatement::setFastPropertyValue_NoBroadcast(sal_Int32 nHandle,const Any&)
+{
+    // set the value to whatever is necessary
+    switch (nHandle)
+    {
+        case PROPERTY_ID_QUERYTIMEOUT:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_MAXFIELDSIZE:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_MAXROWS:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_CURSORNAME:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETCONCURRENCY:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETTYPE:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_FETCHDIRECTION:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_FETCHSIZE:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_ESCAPEPROCESSING:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_USEBOOKMARKS:
+        default:
+            ;
+    }
+}
+
+void MacabCommonStatement::getFastPropertyValue(Any&,sal_Int32 nHandle) const
+{
+    switch (nHandle)
+    {
+        case PROPERTY_ID_QUERYTIMEOUT:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_MAXFIELDSIZE:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_MAXROWS:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_CURSORNAME:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETCONCURRENCY:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_RESULTSETTYPE:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_FETCHDIRECTION:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_FETCHSIZE:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_ESCAPEPROCESSING:
+        case PROPERTY_ID_USEBOOKMARKS:
+        default:
+            ;
+    }
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabCommonStatement::acquire() noexcept
+{
+    MacabCommonStatement_BASE::acquire();
+}
+
+void SAL_CALL MacabCommonStatement::release() noexcept
+{
+    MacabCommonStatement_BASE::release();
+}
+
+Reference< css::beans::XPropertySetInfo > SAL_CALL MacabCommonStatement::getPropertySetInfo(  )
+{
+    return ::cppu::OPropertySetHelper::createPropertySetInfo(getInfoHelper());
+}
+
+MacabStatement::MacabStatement(MacabConnection* _pConnection)
+    : MacabStatement_BASE(_pConnection)
+{
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabStatement.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabStatement.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..700a895c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabStatement.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "MacabConnection.hxx"
+#include "MacabHeader.hxx"
+#include <connectivity/sqliterator.hxx>
+#include <connectivity/sqlparse.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XStatement.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/SQLWarning.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/util/XCancellable.hpp>
+#include <cppuhelper/compbase.hxx>
+#include <cppuhelper/implbase.hxx>
+#include <cppuhelper/basemutex.hxx>
+#include <comphelper/proparrhlp.hxx>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+        typedef ::cppu::WeakComponentImplHelper<   css::sdbc::XStatement,
+                                                   css::sdbc::XWarningsSupplier,
+                                                   css::util::XCancellable,
+                                                   css::sdbc::XCloseable> MacabCommonStatement_BASE;
+
+
+        // Class MacabCommonStatement
+        // is a base class for the normal statement and for the prepared statement
+
+        class MacabCommonStatement :    public cppu::BaseMutex,
+                        public  MacabCommonStatement_BASE,
+                        public  ::cppu::OPropertySetHelper,
+                        public  comphelper::OPropertyArrayUsageHelper<MacabCommonStatement>
+
+        {
+            css::sdbc::SQLWarning               m_aLastWarning;
+
+        protected:
+            connectivity::OSQLParser            m_aParser;
+            connectivity::OSQLParseTreeIterator m_aSQLIterator;
+            connectivity::OSQLParseNode*        m_pParseTree;
+            MacabConnection*                    m_pConnection;  // The owning Connection object
+            MacabHeader*                        m_pHeader;  // The header of the address book on which to run queries (provided by m_pConnection)
+            css::uno::WeakReference< css::sdbc::XResultSet>    m_xResultSet;   // The last ResultSet created
+
+
+        protected:
+            /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+            class MacabCondition *analyseWhereClause(
+                const OSQLParseNode *pParseNode) const;
+            /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+            class MacabOrder *analyseOrderByClause(
+                const OSQLParseNode *pParseNode) const;
+            OUString getTableName( ) const;
+            /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+            void setMacabFields(class MacabResultSet *pResult) const;
+            /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+            void selectRecords(MacabResultSet *pResult) const;
+            /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+            void sortRecords(MacabResultSet *pResult) const;
+
+            // OPropertyArrayUsageHelper
+            virtual ::cppu::IPropertyArrayHelper* createArrayHelper() const override;
+
+            // OPropertySetHelper
+            virtual ::cppu::IPropertyArrayHelper & SAL_CALL getInfoHelper() override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL convertFastPropertyValue(
+                    css::uno::Any & rConvertedValue,
+                    css::uno::Any & rOldValue,
+                    sal_Int32 nHandle,
+                    const css::uno::Any& rValue) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL setFastPropertyValue_NoBroadcast(
+                    sal_Int32 nHandle,
+                    const css::uno::Any& rValue) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL getFastPropertyValue(
+                    css::uno::Any& rValue,
+                    sal_Int32 nHandle) const override;
+
+            /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+            virtual void resetParameters() const;
+            /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+            virtual void getNextParameter(OUString &rParameter) const;
+            virtual ~MacabCommonStatement() override;
+
+        public:
+            using MacabCommonStatement_BASE::rBHelper;
+
+            explicit MacabCommonStatement(MacabConnection *_pConnection);
+            using MacabCommonStatement_BASE::operator css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface >;
+
+            // OComponentHelper
+            using MacabCommonStatement_BASE::disposing;
+
+            // XInterface
+            virtual void SAL_CALL release() noexcept override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL acquire() noexcept override;
+            virtual css::uno::Any SAL_CALL queryInterface(
+                    const css::uno::Type & rType
+                    ) override;
+
+            // XTypeProvider
+            virtual css::uno::Sequence< css::uno::Type > SAL_CALL getTypes(
+                    ) override;
+
+            // XPropertySet
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::beans::XPropertySetInfo > SAL_CALL getPropertySetInfo(
+                    ) override;
+
+            // XStatement
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XResultSet > SAL_CALL executeQuery(
+                    const OUString& sql ) override;
+            virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL executeUpdate(
+                     const OUString& sql ) override;
+            virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL execute(
+                    const OUString& sql ) override;
+            virtual css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XConnection > SAL_CALL getConnection(
+                    ) override;
+
+            // XWarningsSupplier
+            virtual css::uno::Any SAL_CALL getWarnings(
+                    ) override;
+            virtual void SAL_CALL clearWarnings(
+                    ) override;
+
+            // XCancellable
+            virtual void SAL_CALL cancel(
+                    ) override;
+
+            // XCloseable
+            virtual void SAL_CALL close(
+                    ) override;
+
+            // other methods
+            MacabConnection* getOwnConnection() const { return m_pConnection; }
+        };
+
+
+        // Class MacabStatement
+
+        typedef ::cppu::ImplInheritanceHelper<
+                MacabCommonStatement, css::lang::XServiceInfo > MacabStatement_BASE;
+
+        class MacabStatement : public MacabStatement_BASE
+        {
+        protected:
+            virtual ~MacabStatement() override { }
+
+        public:
+            explicit MacabStatement(MacabConnection* _pConnection);
+            DECLARE_SERVICE_INFO();
+        };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabTable.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabTable.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1628cd297
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabTable.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "MacabTable.hxx"
+#include "MacabTables.hxx"
+#include "MacabColumns.hxx"
+#include "MacabCatalog.hxx"
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XRow.hpp>
+
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+using namespace connectivity;
+using namespace ::comphelper;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::uno;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::beans;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::sdbcx;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::sdbc;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::container;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::lang;
+
+
+MacabTable::MacabTable( sdbcx::OCollection* _pTables, MacabConnection* _pConnection)
+    : MacabTable_TYPEDEF(_pTables, true),
+    m_pConnection(_pConnection)
+{
+    construct();
+}
+
+MacabTable::MacabTable( sdbcx::OCollection* _pTables,
+                MacabConnection* _pConnection,
+                const OUString& Name,
+                const OUString& Type,
+                const OUString& Description ,
+                const OUString& SchemaName,
+                const OUString& CatalogName
+                ) : MacabTable_TYPEDEF(_pTables,true,
+                                  Name,
+                                  Type,
+                                  Description,
+                                  SchemaName,
+                                  CatalogName),
+                    m_pConnection(_pConnection)
+{
+    construct();
+}
+
+void MacabTable::refreshColumns()
+{
+    ::std::vector< OUString> aVector;
+
+    if (!isNew())
+    {
+        Reference< XResultSet > xResult = m_pConnection->getMetaData()->getColumns(
+                Any(), m_SchemaName, m_Name, "%");
+
+        if (xResult.is())
+        {
+            Reference< XRow > xRow(xResult, UNO_QUERY);
+            while (xResult->next())
+                aVector.push_back(xRow->getString(4));
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (m_xColumns)
+        m_xColumns->reFill(aVector);
+    else
+        m_xColumns.reset(new MacabColumns(this, m_aMutex, aVector));
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabTable.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabTable.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..897d589cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabTable.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "MacabConnection.hxx"
+#include <connectivity/sdbcx/VTable.hxx>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+        typedef connectivity::sdbcx::OTable MacabTable_TYPEDEF;
+
+        class MacabTable : public MacabTable_TYPEDEF
+        {
+            css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XDatabaseMetaData > m_xMetaData;
+            MacabConnection* m_pConnection;
+
+        public:
+            MacabTable( sdbcx::OCollection* _pTables, MacabConnection* _pConnection);
+            MacabTable( sdbcx::OCollection* _pTables,
+                    MacabConnection* _pConnection,
+                    const OUString& Name,
+                    const OUString& Type,
+                    const OUString& Description = OUString(),
+                    const OUString& SchemaName = OUString(),
+                    const OUString& CatalogName = OUString()
+                );
+
+            MacabConnection* getConnection() { return m_pConnection;}
+
+            virtual void refreshColumns() override;
+
+            OUString const & getTableName() const { return m_Name; }
+            OUString const & getSchema() const { return m_SchemaName; }
+        };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabTables.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabTables.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e7149d264
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabTables.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "MacabTables.hxx"
+#include "MacabTable.hxx"
+#include "MacabCatalog.hxx"
+#include "MacabConnection.hxx"
+#include <comphelper/types.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XRow.hpp>
+
+using namespace connectivity::macab;
+using namespace connectivity;
+using namespace ::comphelper;
+using namespace ::cppu;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::uno;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::beans;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::sdbcx;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::sdbc;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::container;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::lang;
+
+sdbcx::ObjectType MacabTables::createObject(const OUString& _rName)
+{
+    OUString aName,aSchema;
+    aSchema = "%";
+    aName = _rName;
+
+    Sequence< OUString > aTypes { "%" };
+
+    Reference< XResultSet > xResult = m_xMetaData->getTables(Any(), aSchema, aName, aTypes);
+
+    sdbcx::ObjectType xRet;
+    if (xResult.is())
+    {
+        Reference< XRow > xRow(xResult, UNO_QUERY);
+        if (xResult->next()) // there can be only one table with this name
+        {
+            xRet = new MacabTable(
+                    this,
+                    static_cast<MacabCatalog&>(m_rParent).getConnection(),
+                    aName,
+                    xRow->getString(4),
+                    xRow->getString(5),
+                    "");
+        }
+    }
+    ::comphelper::disposeComponent(xResult);
+
+    return xRet;
+}
+
+void MacabTables::impl_refresh(  )
+{
+    static_cast<MacabCatalog&>(m_rParent).refreshTables();
+}
+
+void MacabTables::disposing()
+{
+    m_xMetaData.clear();
+    OCollection::disposing();
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabTables.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabTables.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0b0d841b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/MacabTables.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <connectivity/sdbcx/VCollection.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/XDatabaseMetaData.hpp>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+        class MacabTables : public sdbcx::OCollection
+        {
+            css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XDatabaseMetaData >       m_xMetaData;
+
+        protected:
+            virtual sdbcx::ObjectType createObject(const OUString& _rName) override;
+            virtual void impl_refresh() override;
+
+        public:
+            MacabTables(
+                const css::uno::Reference< css::sdbc::XDatabaseMetaData >& _rMetaData,
+                ::cppu::OWeakObject& _rParent,
+                ::osl::Mutex& _rMutex,
+                const ::std::vector< OUString> &_rVector)
+                : sdbcx::OCollection(_rParent,true,_rMutex,_rVector),
+                  m_xMetaData(_rMetaData)
+                { }
+
+            virtual void disposing() override;
+        };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macab1.component b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macab1.component
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7cbc0d9c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macab1.component
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ -->
+
+<component loader="com.sun.star.loader.SharedLibrary" environment="@CPPU_ENV@"
+    xmlns="http://openoffice.org/2010/uno-components">
+  <implementation name="com.sun.star.comp.sdbc.macab.Driver"
+    constructor="connectivity_MacabDriver_get_implementation">
+    <service name="com.sun.star.sdbc.Driver"/>
+  </implementation>
+</component>
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macabcondition.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macabcondition.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..41e087b2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macabcondition.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,244 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "macabcondition.hxx"
+#include "MacabHeader.hxx"
+#include "MacabRecord.hxx"
+#include <connectivity/CommonTools.hxx>
+
+using namespace ::connectivity::macab;
+using namespace ::com::sun::star::sdbc;
+
+MacabCondition::~MacabCondition()
+{
+}
+
+MacabConditionConstant::MacabConditionConstant(const bool bValue)
+    : MacabCondition(),
+      m_bValue(bValue)
+{
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionConstant::isAlwaysTrue() const
+{
+    return m_bValue;
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionConstant::isAlwaysFalse() const
+{
+    return !m_bValue;
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionConstant::eval(const MacabRecord *) const
+{
+    return m_bValue;
+}
+
+MacabConditionColumn::MacabConditionColumn(
+    const MacabHeader *header, std::u16string_view sColumnName)
+    : MacabCondition(),
+      m_nFieldNumber(header->getColumnNumber(sColumnName))
+{
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionColumn::isAlwaysTrue() const
+{
+    // Sometimes true, sometimes false
+    return false;
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionColumn::isAlwaysFalse() const
+{
+    // Sometimes true, sometimes false
+    return false;
+}
+
+MacabConditionNull::MacabConditionNull(const MacabHeader *header, std::u16string_view sColumnName)
+    : MacabConditionColumn(header, sColumnName)
+{
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionNull::eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const
+{
+    macabfield *aValue = aRecord->get(m_nFieldNumber);
+
+    if(aValue == nullptr)
+        return true;
+    else if(aValue->value == nullptr)
+        return true;
+    else
+        return false;
+}
+
+MacabConditionNotNull::MacabConditionNotNull(
+    const MacabHeader *header, std::u16string_view sColumnName)
+    : MacabConditionColumn(header, sColumnName)
+{
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionNotNull::eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const
+{
+    macabfield *aValue = aRecord->get(m_nFieldNumber);
+
+    if(aValue == nullptr)
+        return false;
+    else if(aValue->value == nullptr)
+        return false;
+    else
+        return true;
+}
+
+MacabConditionCompare::MacabConditionCompare(const MacabHeader *header, std::u16string_view sColumnName, const OUString &sMatchString)
+    : MacabConditionColumn(header, sColumnName),
+      m_sMatchString(sMatchString)
+{
+}
+
+MacabConditionEqual::MacabConditionEqual(const MacabHeader *header, std::u16string_view sColumnName, const OUString &sMatchString)
+    : MacabConditionCompare(header, sColumnName, sMatchString)
+{
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionEqual::eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const
+{
+    macabfield *aValue = aRecord->get(m_nFieldNumber);
+
+    if(aValue == nullptr)
+        return false;
+
+    macabfield *aValue2 = MacabRecord::createMacabField(m_sMatchString,aValue->type);
+
+    if(aValue2 == nullptr)
+        return false;
+
+    sal_Int32 nReturn = MacabRecord::compareFields(aValue, aValue2);
+
+    delete aValue2;
+    return nReturn == 0;
+}
+
+MacabConditionDifferent::MacabConditionDifferent(const MacabHeader *header, std::u16string_view sColumnName, const OUString &sMatchString)
+    : MacabConditionCompare(header, sColumnName, sMatchString)
+{
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionDifferent::eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const
+{
+    macabfield *aValue = aRecord->get(m_nFieldNumber);
+
+    if(aValue == nullptr)
+        return false;
+
+    macabfield *aValue2 = MacabRecord::createMacabField(m_sMatchString,aValue->type);
+
+    if(aValue2 == nullptr)
+        return false;
+
+    sal_Int32 nReturn = MacabRecord::compareFields(aValue, aValue2);
+
+    delete aValue2;
+    return nReturn != 0;
+}
+
+MacabConditionSimilar::MacabConditionSimilar(const MacabHeader *header, std::u16string_view sColumnName, const OUString &sMatchString)
+    : MacabConditionCompare(header, sColumnName, sMatchString)
+{
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionSimilar::eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const
+{
+    macabfield *aValue = aRecord->get(m_nFieldNumber);
+
+    if(aValue == nullptr)
+        return false;
+
+    OUString sName = MacabRecord::fieldToString(aValue);
+
+    return match(m_sMatchString, sName, '\0');
+}
+
+MacabConditionBoolean::MacabConditionBoolean(MacabCondition *pLeft, MacabCondition *pRight)
+    : MacabCondition(),
+      m_pLeft(pLeft),
+      m_pRight(pRight)
+{
+}
+
+MacabConditionBoolean::~MacabConditionBoolean()
+{
+    delete m_pLeft;
+    delete m_pRight;
+}
+
+MacabConditionOr::MacabConditionOr(MacabCondition *pLeft, MacabCondition *pRight)
+    : MacabConditionBoolean(pLeft, pRight)
+{
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionOr::isAlwaysTrue() const
+{
+    return m_pLeft->isAlwaysTrue() || m_pRight->isAlwaysTrue();
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionOr::isAlwaysFalse() const
+{
+    return m_pLeft->isAlwaysFalse() && m_pRight->isAlwaysFalse();
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionOr::eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const
+{
+    // We avoid evaluating terms as much as we can
+    if (m_pLeft->isAlwaysTrue() || m_pRight->isAlwaysTrue()) return true;
+    if (m_pLeft->isAlwaysFalse() && m_pRight->isAlwaysFalse()) return false;
+
+    if (m_pLeft->eval(aRecord)) return true;
+    if (m_pRight->eval(aRecord)) return true;
+
+    return false;
+}
+
+MacabConditionAnd::MacabConditionAnd(MacabCondition *pLeft, MacabCondition *pRight)
+    : MacabConditionBoolean(pLeft, pRight)
+{
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionAnd::isAlwaysTrue() const
+{
+    return m_pLeft->isAlwaysTrue() && m_pRight->isAlwaysTrue();
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionAnd::isAlwaysFalse() const
+{
+    return m_pLeft->isAlwaysFalse() || m_pRight->isAlwaysFalse();
+}
+
+bool MacabConditionAnd::eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const
+{
+    // We avoid evaluating terms as much as we can
+    if (m_pLeft->isAlwaysFalse() || m_pRight->isAlwaysFalse()) return false;
+    if (m_pLeft->isAlwaysTrue() && m_pRight->isAlwaysTrue()) return true;
+
+    if (!m_pLeft->eval(aRecord)) return false;
+    if (!m_pRight->eval(aRecord)) return false;
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macabcondition.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macabcondition.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..32e7b7071
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macabcondition.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+
+#include <string_view>
+
+#include "MacabHeader.hxx"
+#include "MacabRecord.hxx"
+
+#include <connectivity/dbexception.hxx>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+
+class MacabCondition
+{
+    public:
+        virtual ~MacabCondition();
+        virtual bool isAlwaysTrue() const = 0;
+        virtual bool isAlwaysFalse() const = 0;
+        virtual bool eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const = 0;
+};
+
+class MacabConditionConstant : public MacabCondition
+{
+    protected:
+        bool m_bValue;
+
+    public:
+        explicit MacabConditionConstant(const bool bValue);
+        virtual bool isAlwaysTrue() const override;
+        virtual bool isAlwaysFalse() const override;
+        virtual bool eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const override;
+};
+
+class MacabConditionColumn : public MacabCondition
+{
+    protected:
+        sal_Int32 m_nFieldNumber;
+
+    public:
+        /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+        MacabConditionColumn(
+            const MacabHeader *header,
+            std::u16string_view sColumnName);
+        virtual bool isAlwaysTrue() const override;
+        virtual bool isAlwaysFalse() const override;
+};
+
+class MacabConditionNull : public MacabConditionColumn
+{
+    public:
+        /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+        MacabConditionNull(
+            const MacabHeader *header,
+            std::u16string_view sColumnName);
+        virtual bool eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const override;
+};
+
+class MacabConditionNotNull : public MacabConditionColumn
+{
+    public:
+        /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+        MacabConditionNotNull(
+            const MacabHeader *header,
+            std::u16string_view sColumnName);
+        virtual bool eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const override;
+};
+
+class MacabConditionCompare : public MacabConditionColumn
+{
+    protected:
+        const OUString m_sMatchString;
+
+    public:
+        /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+        MacabConditionCompare(
+            const MacabHeader *header,
+            std::u16string_view sColumnName,
+            const OUString &sMatchString);
+};
+
+class MacabConditionEqual : public MacabConditionCompare
+{
+    public:
+        /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+        MacabConditionEqual(
+            const MacabHeader *header,
+            std::u16string_view sColumnName,
+            const OUString &sMatchString);
+        virtual bool eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const override;
+};
+
+class MacabConditionDifferent : public MacabConditionCompare
+{
+    public:
+        /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+        MacabConditionDifferent(
+            const MacabHeader *header,
+            std::u16string_view sColumnName,
+            const OUString &sMatchString);
+        virtual bool eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const override;
+};
+
+class MacabConditionSimilar : public MacabConditionCompare
+{
+    public:
+        /// @throws css::sdbc::SQLException
+        MacabConditionSimilar(
+            const MacabHeader *header,
+            std::u16string_view sColumnName,
+            const OUString &sMatchString);
+        virtual bool eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const override;
+};
+
+class MacabConditionBoolean : public MacabCondition
+{
+    protected:
+        MacabCondition *m_pLeft, *m_pRight;
+
+    public:
+        MacabConditionBoolean(MacabCondition *pLeft, MacabCondition *pRight);
+        virtual ~MacabConditionBoolean() override;
+};
+
+class MacabConditionOr : public MacabConditionBoolean
+{
+    public:
+        MacabConditionOr(MacabCondition *pLeft, MacabCondition *pRight);
+        virtual bool isAlwaysTrue() const override;
+        virtual bool isAlwaysFalse() const override;
+        virtual bool eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const override;
+};
+
+class MacabConditionAnd : public MacabConditionBoolean
+{
+    public:
+        MacabConditionAnd(MacabCondition *pLeft, MacabCondition *pRight);
+        virtual bool isAlwaysTrue() const override;
+        virtual bool isAlwaysFalse() const override;
+        virtual bool eval(const MacabRecord *aRecord) const override;
+};
+
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macaborder.cxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macaborder.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..133e5d599
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macaborder.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include "macaborder.hxx"
+#include "MacabHeader.hxx"
+#include "MacabRecord.hxx"
+
+using namespace ::connectivity::macab;
+
+MacabOrder::~MacabOrder()
+{
+}
+
+MacabSimpleOrder::MacabSimpleOrder(MacabHeader const *header, std::u16string_view sColumnName, bool bAscending)
+    : MacabOrder(),
+      m_nFieldNumber(header->getColumnNumber(sColumnName)),
+      m_bAscending(bAscending)
+{
+}
+
+sal_Int32 MacabSimpleOrder::compare(const MacabRecord *record1, const MacabRecord *record2) const
+{
+    sal_Int32 result;
+
+    result = MacabRecord::compareFields(record1->get(m_nFieldNumber), record2->get(m_nFieldNumber));
+
+    if (!m_bAscending) result = -result;
+
+    return result;
+}
+
+MacabComplexOrder::MacabComplexOrder()
+    : MacabOrder(),
+      m_aOrders()
+{
+}
+
+MacabComplexOrder::~MacabComplexOrder()
+{
+}
+
+void MacabComplexOrder::addOrder(MacabOrder *pOrder)
+{
+    m_aOrders.emplace_back(pOrder);
+}
+
+sal_Int32 MacabComplexOrder::compare(const MacabRecord *record1, const MacabRecord *record2) const
+{
+    for (auto const & p: m_aOrders)
+    {
+        sal_Int32 result = p->compare(record1, record2);
+
+        if (result) return result;
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macaborder.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macaborder.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e5eb6c987
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macaborder.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include "MacabHeader.hxx"
+#include "MacabRecord.hxx"
+
+#include <memory>
+#include <string_view>
+#include <vector>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+        class MacabOrder
+        {
+        public:
+            virtual ~MacabOrder();
+
+            virtual sal_Int32 compare(const MacabRecord *record1, const MacabRecord *record2) const = 0;
+        };
+
+        class MacabSimpleOrder : public MacabOrder
+        {
+            sal_Int32 m_nFieldNumber;
+            bool m_bAscending;
+
+        public:
+            MacabSimpleOrder(MacabHeader const *header, std::u16string_view sColumnName, bool bAscending);
+
+            virtual sal_Int32 compare(const MacabRecord *record1, const MacabRecord *record2) const override;
+        };
+
+        class MacabComplexOrder : public MacabOrder
+        {
+            std::vector<std::unique_ptr<MacabOrder>> m_aOrders;
+
+        public:
+            MacabComplexOrder();
+            virtual ~MacabComplexOrder() override;
+
+            void addOrder(MacabOrder *pOrder);
+            virtual sal_Int32 compare(const MacabRecord *record1, const MacabRecord *record2) const override;
+        };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macabutilities.hxx b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macabutilities.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cfe46f37f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connectivity/source/drivers/macab/macabutilities.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <com/sun/star/util/DateTime.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/sdbc/DataType.hpp>
+#include <unotools/resmgr.hxx>
+
+#include <time.h>
+#include <premac.h>
+#include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
+#include <AddressBook/ABAddressBookC.h>
+#include <postmac.h>
+
+namespace connectivity::macab
+{
+
+        inline OUString CFStringToOUString(const CFStringRef sOrig)
+        {
+            /* Copied all-but directly from code by Florian Heckl in
+             * cws_src680_aquafilepicker01
+             * File was: fpicker/source/aqua/CFStringUtilities
+             * I only removed commented debugging lines and changed variable
+             * names.
+             */
+            if (nullptr == sOrig) {
+                    return OUString();
+            }
+
+            CFRetain(sOrig);
+            CFIndex nStringLength = CFStringGetLength(sOrig);
+
+            UniChar unichars[nStringLength+1];
+
+            //'close' the string buffer correctly
+            unichars[nStringLength] = '\0';
+
+            CFStringGetCharacters (sOrig, CFRangeMake(0,nStringLength), unichars);
+            CFRelease(sOrig);
+
+            return OUString(reinterpret_cast<sal_Unicode *>(unichars));
+        }
+
+
+        inline CFStringRef OUStringToCFString(const OUString& aString)
+        {
+            /* Copied directly from code by Florian Heckl in
+             * cws_src680_aquafilepicker01
+             * File was: fpicker/source/aqua/CFStringUtilities
+             */
+
+            CFStringRef ref = CFStringCreateWithCharacters(kCFAllocatorDefault, reinterpret_cast<UniChar const *>(aString.getStr()), aString.getLength());
+
+            return ref;
+        }
+
+
+        inline css::util::DateTime CFDateToDateTime(const CFDateRef _cfDate)
+        {
+                /* Carbon can give us the time since 2001 of any CFDateRef,
+                 * and it also stores the time since 1970 as a constant,
+                 * basically allowing us to get the unixtime of any
+                 * CFDateRef. From there, it is just a matter of choosing what
+                 * we want to do with it.
+                 */
+            css::util::DateTime nRet;
+            double timeSince2001 = CFDateGetAbsoluteTime(_cfDate);
+            time_t unixtime = timeSince2001+kCFAbsoluteTimeIntervalSince1970;
+            struct tm *ptm = localtime(&unixtime);
+            nRet.Year = ptm->tm_year+1900;
+            nRet.Month = ptm->tm_mon+1;
+            nRet.Day = ptm->tm_mday;
+            nRet.Hours = ptm->tm_hour;
+            nRet.Minutes = ptm->tm_min;
+            nRet.Seconds = ptm->tm_sec;
+            nRet.NanoSeconds = 0;
+            return nRet;
+        }
+
+
+        inline OUString fixLabel(const OUString& _originalLabel)
+        {
+            /* Get the length, and make sure that there is actually a string
+             * here.
+             */
+            if(_originalLabel.startsWith("_$!<"))
+            {
+                return _originalLabel.copy(4,_originalLabel.getLength()-8);
+            }
+
+            return _originalLabel;
+        }
+
+
+        inline sal_Int32 ABTypeToDataType(const ABPropertyType _abType)
+        {
+            sal_Int32 dataType;
+            switch(_abType)
+            {
+                case kABStringProperty:
+                    dataType = css::sdbc::DataType::CHAR;
+                    break;
+                case kABDateProperty:
+                    dataType = css::sdbc::DataType::TIMESTAMP;
+                    break;
+                case kABIntegerProperty:
+                    dataType = css::sdbc::DataType::INTEGER;
+                    break;
+                case kABRealProperty:
+                    dataType = css::sdbc::DataType::FLOAT;
+                    break;
+                default:
+                    dataType = -1;
+            }
+            return dataType;
+        }
+
+        void impl_throwError(TranslateId pErrorId);
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */