Hi Andy!
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Andy Wardley wrote:
Jess Robinson wrote:
Having discovered a need for a Template::Provider::DBI, I've written one.
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http://desert-island.dynodns.net:8888/perldists/etc...
Hi Jess,
I seem to have missed the boat! The server doesn't appear to be there
any more.
Heh, that reply took so long I almost missed it ;)
The server should be there, generally, sometimes its offline cos of silly
ISPs and the like, try again?
I should warn you that the Provider sub-system is probably the most
heinously contorted and horrendously unelegant part of TT... no wait!
you've found that out already (sorry!). It's also the part that is
going to change quite drastically in TT3 and render your code obsolete.
Actually, I don't think its *that* bad... Just could do with some thought
to subclassing, since at the moment one has to jump through hoops..
But the, er, "good" news is that TT3 is still some way off and when it
does come, it should make your DBI provider much simpler to implement.
I haven't quite nailed down the new provider sub-system yet (it's one
of the final few things I've got left to do) so having your DBI provider
will be a good reference point for me, if only to see what I'm breaking
and how best to fix it.
Nifty ;)
In the mean time, I'm moving the DBI plugin into a separate Template-DBI
distribution. Initially my plan is just to move non-core things out of
the core, so Template-DBI is just somewhere to put the plugin(s). But
I thought it would be nice to have a DBI provider and any other DBI-related
TT modules in there at some point.
So if you're amenable to it, I'd like to look into merging your DBI
provider into this "core" TT DBI distribution at some point in the
future. I'm in the process of moving everything over to subversion
and you would of course be welcome to have all the neccessary commit
bits required to maintain it.
Sounds like an idea to me, since I haven't gotten around to releasing it
yet.. The code is currently checked in to the DBIx-Class repository, I
don't really mind where it lives, if you're giving me access ;)
Either way, the Template::Provider patch is applied.
Many thanks for both that and having a crack at the DBI provider.
That's brave that is!
Heh, maybe I'm just crazy.. It was certainly interesting. Finding the
slash provider code helped somewhat.
Now I can go attempt to test my Catalyst patch that's supposed to allow
multiple PROVIDERs.. Didn't get that working quite yet..
Thanks!
Jess
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