Re: using DBI handles managed elsewhere

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On Mar 25, 2005, at 5:42 AM, Tony Bowden wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:49:41PM -0500, Chris Winters wrote:
>> I'm trying to provide glue between OpenInteract2 and Class::DBI. From
>> reading the mailing list archives I learned that adding
>> 'DBIx::ContextualFetch' to the 'RootClass' attribute of DBI's
>> connect() method will provide the additional functionality needed by
>> Class::DBI without using Ima::DBI. I can then provide this
>> RootClass-enhanced handle to a CDBI class via a db_Main() method and
>> all parties will be happy.
>
> That very much depends on what the parties need to do!
>
> 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?

Thanks,
Jim


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Jim Brandt
Administrative Computing Services
University at Buffalo