On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:19:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:53:29PM +0400, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> > > Isn't a goal for ORMs to hide all this database connection stuff?
> > 2. There is no way for an ORM to guess where you do want to connect to.
>
> Yes but couldn't this be done in a config file rather than in Python code?
SQLObject is a library, not a framework that dictates the format and the
location of its config file(s).
> Unless I'm missing something,
> this is *already* done in TurboGears/SQLObject as the config
> file there defines a sqlobject.dburi variable!
Don't know anything about TurboGears. SQLObject is a separate project,
not a subproject of TG.
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:53:31AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In my TurboGears/SQLObject app, I manually commit changes to the database
> with a line like the following...
>
> MyObject._connection.commit()
Ah, that is what you meant by saying "explicit connection". I see now.
> It works but looks ugly since _connection is "private variable" that should
> not
> be accessed right?
Yes, to a degree. On the other hand, .commit() really belongs to the
connection. After a program has manipulated a hundred of SQLObjects it has
to fix the changes in the backend; .commit() doesn't belong to any
SQLObject in particular, it's a feature of the connection; if the
connection dies the backend automatically rollbacks changes.
I usually keep a reference to the connection, so I don't need to extract
it from SQLObjects:
connection = ...
class MyTable(SQLObject):
_connection = connection
new_row = MyTable(**values)
connection.commit()
What other API would you like to propose?
Oleg.
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