Re: [CDBI] session handling in cdbi

> Hi!

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:51:50AM +0200, Patrik Wallstrom wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am trying to figure out a smart way of handling permissions in
> Class::DBI. The idea is having a kind of session object and pass that
> around. It is simple of you're only one user using the base class, but
> is really hard if you want to pass around different session
> objects. Has anybody here done that kind of thing? I have been
> searching through the archives and the Wiki but found noting.

Well, here's the approach I tend to use (modelled on dynamic-wind in lisp) -

package MyDB::Session;

use vars qw/$current_session @EXPORT_OK/;

use base qw/Exporter/;

@EXPORT = '&run_with_session';

sub run_with_session {
  my ($session, $code) = @_;
  local $current_session = $session;
  $code->();
}

then in the app code you can just do

run_with_session($session, sub { ... });

and in your underlying classes you just do

my $session = $MyDB::Session::current_session;

Obviously you can clean this up a bit and present a nicer API etc. but that
pretty much covers it.

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