On Mar 29, 2007, at 3:23 AM, James Masters wrote: > Thanks for your very helpful reply, Jonathan. It answered my general > question but I'm left with a couple of more specific ones. > > Pl. see in line. > >> I do that with ~20 tables that hold data I consider 'constants'. If >> this data is unchanging, there's no need to continually hit the db. >> ( note, i do this in a persistent environment , and i use that data >> nonstop. i think its easier putting config/constant data in a db >> than an xml / hash ) > > Yes, that's it. It's for data that is constant, for the purposes of > the > script in question. But I am v. interested to know how you do > this. Do you > do a Rose call and then iterate through all the objects creating a > hash? > I've now written something to do this.
Pretty much, yes. Some of it is done via rose + a loop, but much is done via generic sql queries too. my applications are only ~50% rose fwiw, i also do this: ( completely not rose related ) for (k,v) in objects: hash{'id'}{ $key } = $value hash{'name'}= reverse $MyApp::Config::fieldname{'id'} ( which works, because all the related tables have name as unique ) I develop under mod_perl -- so on startup i connect to the db, pull all the 'static' info , and toss that into a series of hashes in a MyApp::Config namespace. That info is then available to all the other modules after apache forks. I don't keep complex data in there - 90% of it is just key/value pairs: states, dropdown select options, etc. maybe 50k worth of stuff ( in terms of apache bloat ) -- but its all stuff that never changes and there'es a 80% chance that a mod_perl child would have requested it several times by termination , so i trade memory for fewer db calls. if you're under mod_perl, it might make sense to play around with the cache version of rose objects. rose is *really nice* under mod perl. it sucks a ton of memory for all the pregeneration of sql , but if flys soooo fast once its running. John addressed the rest. // Jonathan Vanasco | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | SyndiClick.com | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | FindMeOn.com - The cure for Multiple Web Personality Disorder | Web Identity Management and 3D Social Networking | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | RoadSound.com - Tools For Bands, Stuff For Fans | Collaborative Online Management And Syndication Tools | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Rose-db-object mailing list Rose-db-object@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rose-db-object