Hi Sandeep, There is currently no built-in support for making, say, MySQL calls from inside a plugin, but that does not prevent you from using another library inside your plugin (like mysql++) to make database calls.
-Sean On 5/26/10 2:25 AM, "Sandeep Kalidindi at PaGaLGuY.com" <[email protected]> wrote: > From the docs i have a feeling ATS cannot make any non-http request to any > host . Is that so ??? Which means ATS plugins have no chance of connecting to > databases directly.... > > > > INKNetConnect (contp, 127.0.0.1, 9999) > > the above call is the only call i saw to make network requests but the fact > that it doesn't take any protocol means i assume it only uses HTTP protocol. > > Please let me know if my understanding is wrong. > > Cheers, > Deepu. > > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Sandeep Kalidindi at PaGaLGuY.com > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> i am about to write a couple of transformation plugins to ATS >> which will fetch data from the database so that all the read requests will be >> taken care of by the ATS itself while write requests are passed on to the >> backend servers. >> >> was checking the architecture and it looks fine by me. wanted to ask the >> community if there is any major why we should not connect to the database >> from ATS before i spend considerable time on it. >> >> Cheers, >> Deepu. > >
