Re: [SQLObject] Why must SQLObject expose database connections to users?

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Oleg

Thank you.  See reponses below.

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:53:29PM +0400, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> > Isn't a goal for ORMs to hide all this database connection stuff?
>
>    Yes, but remember these things:
>
> 1. The Law of Leaky Abstractions - it is very hard to completely hide the
> underlying level.
> 2. There is no way for an ORM to guess where you do want to connect to.
> 3. What if one would want to connect to two different databases? Should the
> ORM to guess both connections? How?!

Yes but couldn't this be done in a config file rather than in Python code?
Unless I'm missing something,
this is *already* done in TurboGears/SQLObject as the config
file there defines a sqlobject.dburi variable!

Chris