Probably not this weekend or the next. There's the TLP infrastructure work to do, and I'm getting ready to leave on a fishing trip to the Great White North next week. The week after that is my quarterly pilmigrage to Oklahoma City, so don't wait on me. :)
-T On 5/27/05, Roberto R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds good Ted. Are you going to go through the .NET docs this weekend? I > was planning to update the text describing configuration after this was > resolved (and update the "cookbook" section). But I can make other plans. > :-) > > Roberto > > > > > On 5/27/05, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/26/05, Roberto Rabe (JIRA) <ibatis-dev@incubator.apache.org> wrote: > > > The relative path in <sqlMap> seems to be confusing enough with the app > base directory > > > being different by project. Now, a relative string path for the > SqlMap.config could end up > > > being hard-coded into the Configure() method call by alot of people and > cause the same > > > confusion if they deployed a DAL as a library that happened to be used > for web, windows, > > > and "test"/console apps. > > > > This is slighly off topic, but I would like to suggest that in our own > > (Team iBATIS) examples, that we *always* assume people are going to be > > deploying the same configuration to multiple project types. > > Accordingly, I would suggest that we *never * use a relative path in > > our project examples, but always use a properties variable. When we do > > show a relative path in a reference guide, we should also remark that > > it is *not* considered a best practice to use that form. > > > > So, in the NetPetShop sqlmap.config, I'd like to add to the configuration > > > > + <properties resource="sqlmap.config.xml" /> > > > > and change the SqlMap to read > > > > - <sqlMap resource="Maps/Category.xml"/> > > + <sqlMap resource="${root}Maps/Category.xml"/> > > > > And then define ${root} in "sqlmap.config.xml". In this case it would be > "./". > > > > If we agree that this is the best practice, I'll start making the > > changes once this issue is resolved, to petstore example and whereever > > else the idiom applies. > > > > -Ted.. > > > > -- HTH, Ted.