Some of you may recall my "DBIx:: namespace?" post from several weeks
back. Now that I'm convinced that the module we're ("we" being
"Yahoo!") looking to release belongs there, I need a name for it.
And I'm not too good at coming up with names, so I'll describe sort of
what it does and see if anyone is inspired (or at least more inspired
than I am).
This module is or does the following:
* Provides a wrapper around DBI which makes it really really easy to
build applications that use MySQL. It caters (to a degree) to
folks that don't deal with databases much at all and don't want to
learn DBI's API. But it has some advanced features, too.
* It is currently MySQL-specific, but may not be. There was a bit
of discussion about Oracle support.
* Gives you very short, intuitive names that wrap existing DBI
functionality. $db->Hashes($sql) will give you a list of
hashrefs, for example.
* Provides a simple and consistent error handling mechanism.
* Provides mechanisms for dealing with database servers that are
temporarily unavailable because of a flaky network or whatever
other reason. Can auto-reconnect, sleep, or die immediately.
* Can notify (e-mail, page, etc) someone when an application is
unable to reach the database server.
* Makes it easy to have something like ODBC DSNs on Unix. You can
name a set of connection parameters (user, host, password,
database) and use that name in many apps. If the parameters
change, you make the change in one place.
* Allows you to call native DBI methods, as some "advanced" or more
seasoned with DBI folks will want to do. It doesn't sub-class
DBI, but knows how to delegate those calls.
* Provides a way for an application to request a connection to a
slave (or replica) database server for read-only queries.
* Other stuff that I'm probably forgetting.
My goal is to clean the code up enough so <plug>that I can release it
in time for my presentation at the Open Source Database Summit.</plug>
http://www.osdn.com/conferences/osdb2/
Would the DBI list be a better place to discuss this, maybe?
Name suggestions? Thoughts? Feedback? Questions?
Jeremy
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