On Wednesday 04 March 2009 16:31:35 Jeremy Evans wrote: > On Mar 4, 3:29 pm, Clive Crous <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2009/3/5 spox <[email protected]>: > > > Yeah, I use serialize in a couple of my models, but I could easily just > > > add a hook to do it instead. That was actually how I had implemented > > > before finding serialize. > > > > It would be kinda cool if you could contribute your hook as a plugin > > at the same time as it's deprecated from the core. > > > > I'm also fairly impartial, however, leaving the functionality there, > > albeit in a plugin, I'd prefer. > > Model's aren't too hard to handle as you can use after_initialize and > before_save to convert the serialized columns. There's no equivalent > for datasets. You can use a custom row_proc for the output, but the > functionality for transforming the inputs wouldn't be there anymore, > unless I left the transform hooks there. > > This functionality is generally used not to store binary data (as blob > columns do that fine), but to store ruby objects (either marshalled or > yamled) in a string field in the database. I think that encourages > poor RDBMS design and practices. If you want to do something like > that, you are generally better off with a key-value database like > CouchDB. > > Jeremy > > >
The only thing I'm using the serialize for is storing regular expressions. Previously, attempts to just store the string would result in it being mangled upon return due to escaping. Serializing ensured the result was consistent, so that's what I have stuck with. But yeah, I don't mind moving it back to hooks. Will these be removed in the next release? - spox --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sequel-talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sequel-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
