Re: [RDBO] Classless Rose::DB::Objects

2007-06-20 Thread John Siracusa
On 6/19/07, mla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you expand a bit on that first sentence? What's the purpose of the > SQL abstraction? It's to provide a structured, mutable representation of SQL, rather than trying to deal with it as a big, opaque string. > I wouldn't mind using SQL and then ju

Re: [RDBO] Classless Rose::DB::Objects

2007-06-19 Thread mla
John Siracusa wrote: > On 6/19/07 9:59 PM, mla wrote: >> Cool. Can I help? Do you already have a general approach in mind? > > The first step is to make a decent SQL abstract abstraction made up of > mutable objects which link back to the relevant bits of RDBO metadata. I'll > probably validate t

Re: [RDBO] Classless Rose::DB::Objects

2007-06-19 Thread John Siracusa
On 6/19/07 9:59 PM, mla wrote: > Cool. Can I help? Do you already have a general approach in mind? The first step is to make a decent SQL abstract abstraction made up of mutable objects which link back to the relevant bits of RDBO metadata. I'll probably validate that piece by re-implementing the

Re: [RDBO] Classless Rose::DB::Objects

2007-06-19 Thread mla
John Siracusa wrote: > On 6/19/07, mla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The features I'm interested in are: >> >>o Providing a somewhat consistent interface between these ad-hoc >> result sets and normal RDBO objects. >> >>o Catching field typos which the accessors/mutators would give you

Re: [RDBO] Classless Rose::DB::Objects

2007-06-19 Thread John Siracusa
On 6/19/07, mla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The features I'm interested in are: > >o Providing a somewhat consistent interface between these ad-hoc > result sets and normal RDBO objects. > >o Catching field typos which the accessors/mutators would give you. > (although you could

[RDBO] Classless Rose::DB::Objects

2007-06-18 Thread mla
I'm interested in doing complex joins with RDBO but without having to map the results to specific Rose::DB::Object classes. I found a discussion along these lines from '05. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/catalyst/users/3095 excerpt: "For funky SQL in the FROM clause or the column list,