Re: [cgiapp] BREAD (or CRUD) Project

[Jason Purdy <suppressed>]

Sam Tregar wrote:
> Sounds cool.  I'm curious about your database access approach:

Thanks - I'm not solid on the database approach and I welcome input.

> What will the plugin do with just a DBI connect string?   Will it use Class::DBI::Loader internally?

That was my thought process last night - to use Class::DBI::Loader 
underneath the covers, but allow the developer to also pass in a 
staticly set of Class::DBI classes in case they want to bypass the time 
that ::Loader takes at compilation to dynamically build classes.

> Also, that seems to imply that you'd use the plugin with an entire database.  That seems unlikely to me.

You bring up a good point - I was thinking of opening the entire 
database, but I agree that it would be pretty unlikely; there may be 
join tables or application-internal tables.  Perhaps we put in another 
method in which it would accept an arrayref of table names, including a 
special name for all tables (i.e. __ALL__ ??).

Or maybe an arrayref of Class::DBI classes, which map to the table and 
would also define the relationships between the tables?

That's one of the weaknesses (or is it?) of ::Loader - missing out on 
the relationships in case the user adds or deletes a record.

Side note: I also realized I chopped out the Synopsis part of the POD - 
not earth-shattering, but I just put that back in.

- Jason

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