On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Ajit Deshpande wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 03:25:18PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> > The next version of Apache::Session is almost ready. This version is
> > dubbed 1.50 because of it's significant-but-not-outrageous changes. The
> > changes from 1.03 are:
>
> <...>
>
> > 4) The DBI interface class has been modified to accept an already-open DBI
> > handler as an argument.
>
> Excellent!
>
> > 5) New interface classes have been added for Apache::Session::Postgres,
> > ::Sybase, and ::Oracle. These are special cases of ::Flex.
>
> I currently modify the connection sub in DBIStore.pm as follows:
>
> sub connection {
> my $self = shift;
> my $session = shift;
>
> return if (defined $self->{dbh});
>
> $self->{dbh} = DBI->connect($session->{args}->{DataSource},
> $session->{args}->{UserName}, $session->{args}->{Password},
> { RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 1,
> LongReadLen => $session->{args}->{LongReadLen}
> }) || die $DBI::errstr;
> }
>
> i.e. I pass the LongReadLen parameter for Oracle. Would something like
> this be a part of the new ::Oracle interface class?
Yes. Alternately, you could open the $dbh and pass it to the
constructor. Either way, the new version should end people's complaints
about Apache::Session not getting along with their DBI/Apache::DBI setups.
-jwb
