Of course, it is always an option (and never a difficulty) to wrap functional programming concepts in an object oriented wrapper -- that's more a benefit of the functional style than then anything OOP gives to you though.
On Aug 27, 7:13 pm, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > >.< DON'T DO IT! > > The DAL is ment for functional programming... so be careful if you > have to use it in a class based system. Plus you will have to have > your stand alone application manage the .table files too. Just keep it > in mind. > > In any case... > > You will need. > > gluon/LICENSE > gluon/sql.py > gluon/portalocker.py > gluon/utils.py > > Also, you will NOT need validators.. so edit gluon/sql.py and comment > out anything to do with the following > > from serializers import json - remove this, it conflicts with the real > version of simplejson installed from pypi. > from http import HTTP -- doubt you will be making any http exceptions > import validators -- unless you are somehow using SQLFORM, you dont > need this. Be sure to remove all traces of validators from the rest of > sql.py Just do a search for "validators" and remove that code. > > Yay, you now have a stand alone DAL... see how easy that was to > de-couple things?! =) > > -- > Thadeus > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Sujan Shakya <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > I'm going to have to use a MySQL orm in a project in near future. > > Do you think web2py DAL is good for that purpose regarding scalability > > and performance ? > > And what files do I need to import or execute to use only web2py DAL ? > > > Thanks. > >
