On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, David Wheeler wrote: > On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 01:17 AM, dLux wrote: > > > - To make it supported by the whole perl community, inclucing module > > developers. For example, I want to pass a date object to the DBI > > bind_param method without the need of converting it to string. I want > > DBI to parse it into the format, which the database-server > > understands. To achieve this, we just need to provide a good > > stringification and parser interface. > > This is something that I've long wanted, too. The issue in my mind is > that the stringification needed by a particular DBD will likely be > different than the default stringification. If the DBD handles it, > fine, but I think it'd be ideal to design it in such a way that the DBD > didn't have to do anything more than specify the datetime string format > it needs (in strftime format, most likely), and have the DateTime
I think it'd be best if the driver module could rely on the object having a strftime() method. That'd be a minimal interface requirement that'd satisfy basically all needs. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
