Re: [CDBI] Class::DBI and Apache::Session - Why does it work?

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From: Brad Bowman
Subject: Re: [CDBI] Class::DBI and Apache::Session - Why does it work?
Date: 23:05 on 02 Dec 2005

> No, you persisted the complete state of the object at that time.  It
> gets run through Storable.
> 
> By the way -- don't do this!  You might lose updates made in the
> database between the time you store it and retrieve it.  The best way to
> handle this is to put the ID into the session and do a fresh retrieve()
> call when you want the object.

Is it worth providing Storable hooks to store only the primary key
then fetch the object afresh when thawing?

http://search.cpan.org/~ams/Storable-2.15/Storable.pm#WIZARDS_ONLY

This has come up a few times now.

Brad

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Re: [CDBI] Class::DBI and Apache::Session - Why does it work?
Brad Bowman 23:05 on 02 Dec 2005

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