Re: [Maypole] Maypole's direction and Perl web frameworks

From: Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko (simonf at cshl.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2005 - 18:03:30 GMT


Tony Bowden wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:24:20AM -0500, Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko wrote:
>
>>They are auto-creation of instance variables based on column names (so
>>that I don't have to specify them in configs),
>
>
> There are numerous Class::DBI plugins to do this.

Oh, good, thanks.

>>lack of auto-save for child objects in relationships.
>
>
> What does this mean?

Suppose I have an author object that I retrieve together with the object
representing books that the author wrote. Then I add some books, remove
others, and modify information for some of the books. Then I want to
call author.save() and have all the relationships and book objects also
saved.

Simon

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