Re: Refactoring DBD::File in preparation for ReadOnly and streams ...
"H.Merijn Brand" <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:21:32 +0200, Jens Rehsack <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Merijn, > > while hacking around in DBD::File and DBI::DBD::SqlEngine I stumbled > over a major design fault made in the past: Some - backward compatible - thoughts: Replace all dir-related parts in DBD::File with callbacks Make streaming interfaces able to override dir-related parts Backward compatible AND extendable > sub DBD::File::Table::get_table_meta () ... evaluates > $dbh->{f_meta}{$table}{initialized} and does something magic else. This > magic is fully DBD::File addicted (heavily relies on file2table) and it > should be broken into separate pieces to differ between initialisation > done for DBI::DBD::SqlEngine and DBD::File and DBD::DBM ... > > I'd like to discuss it tomorrow in IRC (but I read my e-Mail if you have > comments at the evening). > > If anyone else has ideas - please feel free to speak (but primary > restriction is backward compatibility to avoid breakage of dependent DBD's). > > Best regards, > Jens -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.14 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/