Sam Vilain wrote:
Maxim Sloyko wrote:
But this is not the point. The point was that usage of some file with
passwords by *DEFAULT* is not the way to go, IMHO. It raises more
problems than it solves.
Can you give an example of such a problem that wasn't already there?
Just to be clear, the file would only need to contain passwords if the
DBD requires them.
Sam.
May be it is just me, but having a bunch of config files is not very
good. Config files should be for program, not for separate modules of
that program. They are hard to manage, when there are many of them.
Besides, DBI is a high level abstraction and it is not a good idea to
tie it to some file. May be it is better to let DBD:: modules choose?
For example, you can pass some parameter to the driver in connect
string, which tells it, where passwords are stored. Something like this
is impleneted in DBD::Oracle, where you can just pass 'sid' parameter to
the driver, the rest configuration parameters (except passwords and
usernames) are read from oracle config file, from the section to which
that sid parameter points.
I don't mind if you implement this ".dbi" feature though, I just want it
to be invisible :) i.e. don't check this file, if I explicitly supply
username and password (this is obvious, right?) and show some warnings
if don't. Say, make a connect parameter "use_dot_dbi", which is zero by
default.
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Maxim Sloyko
