On Thursday 27 January 2005 04:53, Tony Bowden wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:57:44AM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> > my $brewery = Brewery->create({
> > name => 'Anheuser Busch',
> > })
> >
> > my $beer = Beer->create({
> > name => 'Budweiser',
> > brewery => $brewery,
> > style => 'lager',
> > });
>
> Of course, in practice, you wouldn't do the second step like
> that. You'd use
>
> my $beer = $brewery->add_to_beers({
> name => 'Budweiser',
> style => 'lager',
> })
>
> But yes, you can just ask a newly created item for its
> auto-incremented id.
Hmmm, that looks like the kind of elegance that I think Maypole
sites are supposed to have.
$ grep
add_to /usr/local/src/.cpan/build/Maypole-2.08/lib/Maypole/Manual/*pod
Hmmm, no example of any add_to stuff in any of the PODs. And I
read ALL of the PODs just before Christmas as a "slight"
editorial critique and submitted a patch to the documentation on
stuff (minor stuff) I thought could get updated.
There are entirely too many large gaps in the documentation. Just
like this. I've been working on this more or less steady for a
month, and I am only just barely getting comfortable with writing
anything beyond trivial and thinking that it might even work.
What am I working on in particular? Well, I really don't want to
see any sessions of my project get hijacked. So, reading
PerlMonks and other stuff, I happened across a comment by Randal
Schwartz about "branding" a browser session. So, I am putting
the IP, user agent, sessionID, and a few other things, along with
a HMAC_SHA1 digest of that data and a 160 bit random number into
the values part of a cookie (session cookie).
So, one of those tables has the primary key, which is the session
ID; and stores a copy of the bulk of the data I brand a browser
with. The other table is for all other parts of the session, and
contains the session ID, access time and URL.
I do the write for the start of the session in the login process,
and the checking for a valid session is attached to authenticate.
But, I didn't know how to find the ID of that first record I
wrote, short of searching the table for everything I just wrote.
It seemed like some elegant solution should exist, but darned if
I could find anything in Maypole, Class::DBI, .... etc
documentation.
I think my project is getting better, but I am now on the 3rd
rewrite of things because the code always gets so tangled up it
is better to start anew, than try to fix what is there. But it
sure would be nice to get this to the point where people could
start trying it out. It hardly even limps in perldb/emacs. :-(
Hopefully I'll be able to add a significant chunk of documentation
now that Christmas has come and gone and the big chunk of
Christmas changes seems to have been made.
Gord
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