Re: AnyData open API

Heya Søren and Jens,

It depends :)

The API for the AnyData module is relatively well documented in the code - I was able to use it pretty quickly. on the other hand DBI::AnyData is broken (and this is the issue Jens is talking about)

I started to look into this (a year or more ago?) but I had to step back, and havn't found either the time, energy or idea on what to do about it.

fundamentally, DBI::AnyData was once a very light wrapper around AnyData, but DBI has changed in ways that makes large parts of AnyData mismatched or redundant.

So - if you want a fast to code Tied hash interface into your data, AnyData is pretty nice. But if you really want DBI/SQL access to it, er, then DBI has more modern modules to help you

(wrt moving the git repo - do you really want the AnyData code in there, or just DBI::AnyData?)

Sven


On 12/10/13 00:10, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> Am 07.10.2013 um 02:37 schrieb Søren Døssing <[email protected]>:
>
>> Where is open API for AnyData documented?
>>
>> In particular I'm interested in how to write a module that does bulk
>> table import/export instead read/write individual records.
>>
>> /etc/hosts file is an example; multiple host names map to a single ip,
>> so adding a record is no longer a matter of a simple append.
> Hi Søren,
>
> I'm sorry to respond such late.
>
> To be true - even if I would point you to some documentation, it wouldn't
> satisfy you're needs neither it would be fair since I plan a more or less
> hard refactoring.
>
> A few month ago we integrated an API into DBI::DBD::SqlEngine for such
> kind of interaction, especially for DBD::File related DBD's as DBD::AnyData.
>
> Because of $work, family, etc. we stuck a bit but today I officially set
> the NEEDHELP flag on PAUSE which says: I want help to move AnyData and
> DBD::AD to the improved basic of DBI::DBD::SqlEngine and start over
> with AnyData.
>
> I know Sven has created a GitHub repository. It should be moved to perl5-dbi
> which would allow anyone on DBI-Team to grant support.
>
> Cheers