Re: DBD::Mock proposal, comments welcome

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:43:50PM +0100, Mark Morgan wrote:
> On 7 September 2010 20:52, Tim Bunce <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Assuming you go with this approach (did I mention it was highly
> > recommended :) then your logic would live in a Gofer transport class
> > like DBI::Gofer::Transport::TotalCache.
> >
> > You'd select it using something like:
> >
> >    DBI_AUTOPROXY="dbi:Gofer:transport=TotalCache;file=foo;mode=record"
> 
> Cheers for that, Tim.  I had a brief look at Gofer earlier last week, but
> abandoned it when realized it had no transaction support (one of the
> requirements for my current need).

How do you see transaction support interacting with the underlying
recording and playback behaviour?

> I'll have a look at this again.  It does
> seem custom-made for this type of problem.  It was the Gofer slideshare that
> actually inspired this idea; I (rightfully) disgusted one of my current
> colleagues with the idea of using DBD::Gofer with HTTP transport and
> wrapping that with LWP::UA::Mockable. ;)

Yeah! That's the kind of crazy plumbing idea I like ;-)

Tim.