Thilo Stapff wrote: > Maybe I'm able to shed some light on the issues that you have addressed. > ARSperl does indeed not implement any of the ARGetMultiple* calls, with > the notable exception of ARGetMultipleEntries. Nor is it possible to > limit the ars_Get* functions to specific attributes (again with the > exception of ars_GetEntry). The reason for this is that the developent > of ARSperl, like the ARS API itself, is somehow quite "vendor centric", > the "vendor" in this case being a group of volunteers, especially > myself. To state it more directly: if I need something, then I'll > implement it.
Hey, I can provide some background here, because I'm one of those volunteers, and I implemented GetMultipleEntries and GetListEntryWithFields. The way most ARSperl applications work, in my experience, is that there is an initialization phase where one-time information is pulled from the server, followed by a data-intensive phase that might involve repeated queries and data retrievals. Life in ARSperl before those two functions was tedious and in my world I was dealing with significant performance issues. The improvement was dramatic. Not so important, in my mind, was the need to pull field definitions. A one-time charge to loop through the fields you want isn't so bad. And while the data changes every day, the field definitions don't. I finally canned ALL of the field queries in favor of a periodic "information gathering" script that does the queries and preserves the results with Data::Dumper so every script can retrieve them when needed. I know it helps that I had complete control over our ARS implementation so if something changed, I could update the definitions immediately. That's not so different from what Remedy User does with caching schema files, after all. -- G. David Frye [EMAIL PROTECTED] (217)840-0570 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ -- Arsperl-users mailing list Arsperl-users@arsperl.org https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/arsperl-users
