Sat Oct 06 2012 19:44:51 GMT+0400 (Caucasus Standard Time) пользователь Jeroen De Dauw ([email protected]) написал: Hey, Starting a new thread as this is really not related to the Wikidata review status thread. On 6 October 2012 08:51, Dmitriy Sintsov <[email protected]> wrote: > Speaking of ORM, are there the plans to support table field relations (one > to one, one to many, many to many) and maybe to use ORM through the core > and another extensions? This could make DB access cleaner and simplier > however maybe with little overhead. Also index hinting is probably required > in such case, especially for such large and actively accessed databases. > The existing ORMTable functionality I wrote is intended as a very simple and lightweight layer on top of the regular database abstraction MediaWiki has. It is not a fully fledged ORM framework and is not intended to be one. I think it's a very bad idea to try to turn it into one. If you really want something more like a full object relational mapper, then you'll be better of starting from scratch after putting some serious thought into how you're going to do it. I do suspect that most core developers (including me) will be rather sceptical of putting such a thing into core though, as it would seriously impact a lot of existing code.
Many frameworks allow to combine "direct" SQL calls and ORM calls, so there is not that big legacy compatibility problem. The efficiency could be a problem, though. Not all of ORM's are heavy-weight. For example, Yii's is quite light however queries weren't always most efficient. I used to work with Yii recently, that's why I asked. Speaking of Java, that's more heavy-weight, something like Doctrine, probably (which I didn't use yet). Dmitriy _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
