Kee Hinckley wrote: > Has anyone tried subclassing DBIx::Recordset? I've been playing with > it and there are a couple issues that I've found. >
I didn't have tried it so far > 1. There are a number of places in the code where the current object > is compared to DBIx::Recordset with an 'eq' rather than using an > 'isa'. That's pretty easy to fix. This was a perfomance hack from times where webserver were really slow compared to nowadays. This should be really fixed. > 2. There are a number of places where the hash and array helper > classes are called. To do what I want I would need to subclass them > as well. Which means that I'd probably have to add functionality to > allow the DBIx::Recordset class and subclasses to store the names of > the helper classes they want to use. > Yes, this would be a good idea. > At present I'm inclined towards using encapsulation instead, and > making use of AUTOLOAD to redirect any unknown functions to the > internal DBIx::Recordset object, but I wondered if anyone had any > thoughts on the matter. I would prefer to extent DBIx::Recordset, so it could be easily subclassed. Since Terrence is now working on DBIx::Recordset, we hopefully will have a new release with patches of the last year incoorporated soon. Gerald -------------------------------------------------------------- Gerald Richter ecos electronic communication services gmbh IT-Securitylösungen * dynamische Webapplikationen * Consulting Post: Tulpenstrasse 5 D-55276 Dienheim b. Mainz E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: +49 6133 939-122 WWW: http://www.ecos.de/ Fax: +49 6133 939-333 -------------------------------------------------------------- | | ECOS BB-5000 Firewall- und IT-Security Appliance: www.bb-5000.info | +------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
