No problem. I have never used that column in over 2 years of building Turbine apps. I'd rather extend the user than use the blob. +1
Age > -----Original Message----- > From: Quinton McCombs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 05:20 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [POLL] Deprecation of the OBJECT_DATA column in > TURBINE_USER table > > > The use of perm scope pull tools and storing data in the TurbineUser > using the setPerm() method would be affected by this change. > > Both of these cause data to be serialized into the > OBJECT_DATA column in > the TURBINE_USER database table. Since Torque (actually Village) has > issues using the BLOB datatype, there is an upper limit to > the amount of > data that can be stored in this manner. Everything will work > fine until > you hit this limit then you will start getting database errors. > > The downsides to using setPerm() in TurbineUser are discussed in the > extending turbine user how to. To summarize, this data can > not be used > to select from the database and is very difficult to extact using a > third party tool that accessed the database directly. > > It is a very simple process to start storing this data in database > columns using the DBSecurityService. It is even easier if you use the > new TorqueSecurityService that Henning wrote which is > availiable in 2.3. > > If you truly have a need for perm scope tools, you can get the same > functionality using the new authorized scope tool in 2.3. > Just like the > perm scope tool, the authorized tool is initialized with an > instance of > the user object. During the initialization of the tool, you > can get any > data that you need to maintain state across logins from the > user object. > Just add any data that you previously stored in the perm tool to the > user object using database columns to store your data. > > I am proposing that the use of the OBJECT_DATA column be deprecated in > 2.3. Is there anyone that this will cause a problem for? > > -------------------------------------------- > Quinton McCombs > NequalsOne - HealthCare marketing tools > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.NequalsOne.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
