For some cases I find ORMTable and our framework pretty useful, but on the other hand our current database solution (with DatabaseBase::select and the like) is perfectly fine and works efficiently and securely for most purposes.
*--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Dmitriy Sintsov <ques...@rambler.ru> wrote: > > > Sat Oct 06 2012 19:44:51 GMT+0400 (Caucasus Standard Time) пользователь >> Jeroen De Dauw (jeroended...@gmail.com) 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 <ques...@rambler.ru> 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 > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
