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• overstating it a bit? (Score:1)

  by perrin (4270)

  Hibernate is more complex than Class::DBI, but it's not hard to use. To your specific complaints, Hibernate doesn't need Tomcat, although Tomcat is a common place to use it. It uses code generation, but so Class::DBI. In both cases, the code generation is done at run-time. It does use XML config files, and I kind of like them. Take a look at this one from the quickstart chapter:

  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping
      PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD//EN"
   
  • Re:overstating it a bit? (Score:1)

    by tmtm (2563) on 2004.08.10 13:38 (#33283) Homepage Journal

    Personally, my brain switches off at the sight of XML, so I find it really hard to read that example at all. Seriously.
    
    I'm not entirely convinced that
    
    __PACKAGE__->constrain_column(name => qr/\w{1,16}/);
    
    is that much more confusing than their XML, but the constrain_column stuff is fairly simplistic at the minute (interface wise. It's actually designed so that my base class can set up certain things to make it hook into CGI::Untaint in nice ways). I'm certainly tempted to allow:
    
    __PACKAGE__->constrain_column(name => sub { length = 16 });
    
    I'd certainly be interested in a list of Hibernate features that you'd like to see in Class::DBI. I tried reading their docs, but my brain shut down.

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    • Re:overstating it a bit? (Score:1)

      by tmtm (2563)

      > __PACKAGE__->constrain_column(name => sub { length = 16 });
      
      That was even easier than I'd expected. (Other than perl needing to disambiguate via length()...)
      
          } elsif (ref $how eq "Regexp") {
            $class->add_constraint(regexp => $col => sub { shift =~ $how });
      |+  } elsif (ref $how eq "CODE") {
      |+    $class->add_constraint(
      |+      code => $col => sub { local $_ = $_[0]; $how->($_) });
          } else {
      
      Tony
    • Re:overstating it a bit? (Score:1)

      by perrin (4270)

      I'm really not a big XML fan, but I think it's applied in a very reasonable way here. The constrain_column() method requires more thinking than specifying it in the XML does. I would ideally like to see more of the stuff that Tim Bunce did to auto-detect database constraints folded into Class::DBI::SomeDBD classes. He had stuff to detect the column length, not-NULL constraints, etc. and build the same constraints in the CDBI classes.

      Hibernate has many good features. Here are some of the ones I would mo