-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all!
Finally, I have some code to show: I uploaded my module AxKit::App::TABOO to CPAN yesterday, now at version 0.011. I'm trying to add an abstraction layer by making AxKit stuff (Providers, XSPs, etc) interact with something I call Data objects, which in turn are responsible for storing the data, returning it with XML markup and so on, when the AxKit stuff so requests. So, the two O's stands for Object Oriented, AB for AxKit-Based. I don't know what the T stands for yet, suggestions are welcome! :-) (After all, I went to the University where OOP was invented, I had to do that...) It is sort of a pre-alpha release, in that it returns nothing that is finished, but I have written four of these data objects in addition to a superclass for them that does a lot of their work. I have also written a Provider, which returns XML markup that I think should be rather finished. That provider is intended to be used for /.-style stories with comments. Right now, the data objects store their data in a PostgreSQL database which they work on using DBD::Pg, but there is nothing preventing anyone from subclassing the Data objects if they want to store it somewhere else. That's a part of the core idea. You can get it from CPAN, you may check out: http://search.cpan.org/~kjetilk/AxKit-App-TABOO-0.011/ and I've scribbled down a website for it at: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/software/TABOO/ For an example of the output, it is allready running on my test server: http://test.skepsis.no/news/features/coolhack/comment/all and some SQL to insert in a PostgreSQL db if you want to try is available on the above website. All the URIs from the News Provider doc should work. Good URIs is also a major design goal of TABOO. The URIs should be sensible, easily maintainable and human-understandable. Right now, there is unfortunately a known and fixed bug in DBD::Pg that affects some versions, notably the latest 1.31, that makes it segfault when working on SQL3 arrays, that one of my data objects is using. Some older versions have no problems, and 1.32 is due out very soon, it seems. Allthough TABOO is a pre-alpha now, I'm working a lot on it, and it should be a beta by the end of the year, and running on http://test.skepsis.no/ so that people can come around and play with it. I have also mostly finished an Article Provider, which is intended to be used for more static content. Most attention will be given to the News part, because that is the first thing that will give people something to play with. I think the abstraction layer by adding Data objects is quite important. It could probably be made more elegant, but I've put much Hubris into this, so I think it is pretty good! :-) I noticed while looking at other people's code, that though it was a lot of code that's probably better than mine, it would be rather hard to integrate all the interesting parts into a coherent whole. Furthermore, everybody has their own way of storing data, and scattered files or different databases didn't seem right to me. So, I added this abstraction layer, so that it should be easier to extend TABOO. But it is not just the idea that people should write for TABOO, but that TABOO should use existing ideas by interfacing them with Data objects. How successful this will be remains to be seen. By adding Data objects and AxKit stuff on top, it is the intention that TABOO should be a framework where one can add a Wiki, a webshop, etc. For example, the AxKit::App::TABOO::User class will then be reused and probably subclassed with e.g. a Customer class. I'm following the "release early" mantra, now... I'll be thrilled if other hackers are willing to poke at TABOO allready at this point! Your comments would be highly appreciated! Best, Kjetil - -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer/Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/2YvglE/Gp2pqC7wRAmgjAJ41Miu2ZB4XAzU7Bfc5TT8s74lL4QCghnz2 H9660EFdAtidul07fa4bFTo= =CR2k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
