Re: Question about the Object Cache

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On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 17:41 +0100, Ian McDonald-ONLINE wrote:
> I had assumed that the Class::DBI object cache

There is no cache...

> Then I put Carp::cluck statements after all the Class/DBI.pm execute
> statements and found that the same ActiveClass->retrieve(217) statement
> was being called multiple times from different contexts.

Yes, it is not intended to save any database lookups.  It is not a
cache.

> So what happens if the object is in memory, but not in scope?

Objects that are out of scope don't stay in memory.

> My code
> takes this form, but makes mutliple calls to ActiveRecord->retrieve(id)
> ... and those multiple calls result in multiple calls to DBI->execute.
> Is this the behavious you would expect?

Yes.

> $x->{activeRecord} = retrieve ActiveRecord (id);

Beware, indirect object syntax will bite you some day.

- Perrin