If you're interested here is my current try : http://bin.cakephp.org/view/1461894980
it's not complete and doesn't work... Martin On Apr 14, 10:56 am, Martin Kirchgessner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As a year-old CakePHP user (by the way : huge congrats to the core > team for keeping up such a pretty framework!) I'm considering to > replace MySQL by CouchDB. I had a dream where some unpredictable data > wouldn't require ugly schemas :) > > So far I tried gwoo's datasource (http://bin.cakephp.org/view/ > 925615535 - see also the original topic [1]) > This is a good start but it assumes that a couchDB database is the > counterpart of MySQL tables. I don't think so, as it's usual in > CouchDB to put a "type" field in documents : then the counterpart of > the table is rather a couch view (or sometimes show or list) which > picks up document sets. A CouchDB view sound like a good counterpart > to find('all', ...) > > I tried to rewrite a datasource (if needed I can publish it on cakebin > today), keeping in mind that it would be tied to a single couchdb > database. BUT I found out that schemas are deeply implemented in the > Model class :/ so Cake started to call my source's listSources, > describe and column methods. Of course I couldn't implement these > methods as my DB doesn't have schemas... I tried to set useTable to > false in the Model but then it won't save anything. > > So I'm stuck between a normal CouchDB use (a single DB for my whole > app + calls to views in mind) which doesn't seem cake-friendly and a > working datasource that puts some constraints on DB design. > That's why I would like to discuss it here. Any comments are welcome! > > Martin > > [1] original topic about cake+couch > :http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/f0eaa551... Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
