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• Tangram Takes Over (Score:2)

  by cwest (1514)

  You're problem is just that Tangram takes over the database for you. It keeps a table that maps class names to table names so you never have to look that far down. It does cause an inheritance problem but I suspect that could be overcome, perhaps a 1-to-many relationship for class name aliases. I suspect it wouldn't be too horrible.
  
  Beware, though, creating your own mapper will drive you insane if you aren't careful. I don't use Tangram because I'm not willing to give up that much control. On the other end

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  Casey West
  • Re:Tangram Takes Over (Score:2)

    by TeeJay (2309)

    Tangram is just not ready for production use.

    The documentation is sparse, once you leave the trivial parts and it is hugely limiting.

    I wouldn't mind it hiding the complexity and details, if it let me choose to be able to at least see what was problematic and why it crashed.

    More error checking wouldn't go amiss either - failing to check that all the table aliases it refers to in a query are in there is a stupid loophole and the sql is generated so far from the query that its impossible to find where th

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    @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
    print reverse @JAPH;
• look at the laternatives before you build your own (Score:1)

  by perrin (4270)

  Hiding the database details from you is the major feature of Tangram. If you want closer access to the database, you should look at Class::DBI or SPOPS.

  Beware of hubris about Tangram -- it does a lot of tricky perl magic in order to provide almost invisible persistence. It is not easy to build something like that.
  • Re:look at the laternatives before you build your (Score:2)

    by TeeJay (2309)

    I'm not after hiding stuff - I am after automating stuff - there is an important difference. When something is automated I can still see what is going on - critical in any system AFAIK.

    The schema and other bits of database behind tangram aren't anything special.

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    @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
    print reverse @JAPH;
    • Re:look at the laternatives before you build your (Score:1)

      by perrin (4270)

      If you're not after hiding stuff, then Tangram is the wrong tool for you. Hiding stuff is most of the point of Tangram.

      The schema that Tangram generates is simple, but handling the query language and doing all the TIE and proxying in order to make things like arrays work is quite complex.
• "Works For Me" (Score:1)

  by amackey (4963)

  Multiple inheritance in Tangram works fine. What doesn't work is empty intermediate classes. I got burnt by the same "bug" you experienced, and found that it was simply due to the fact that I had an "organizational" superclass with no actual attributes. A little class rearrangement and everything was OK.
  
  But I certainly don't disagree that Tangram has many rough spots.