Re: using DBI handles managed elsewhere

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On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:19:47PM -0500, Jim Brandt wrote:
> >Adding ContextualFetch will certainly provide some of the features that
> >Class::DBI needs, but it certainly won't provide the vast majority of
> >the features that most users of Class::DBI want...
> I was under the impression creating a db_Main() method this way did 
> give you full Class::DBI functionality. But you're saying doing 
> something like this:
> sub db_Main{
>    $dbh DBI->connect($dsn, $username, $password, {
>                    RaiseError                  => 1,
>                    AutoCommit                 => 0,
>                    PrintError                 => 0,
>                    RootClass                   => "DBIx::ContextualFetch",
>              });
>    return $dbh;
> }
> will limit the functionality of Class::DBI? So the 'connection' method 
> is inherently superior because it does extra stuff?

No. This will be the same as connection(). The point was that just
having something use ContextualFetch doesn't give it all the Class::DBI
functionality.

You can use DBIx::ContextualFetch and even Ima::DBI without actually
using Class::DBI.

To get the benefit of Class::DBI you need to actually inherit from it. 

Tony