Re: [GeneX-dev] Use of Bio::Genex API

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"Michael Pear" <mic...@ho...> writes:

> Solved my problem. UserSec was apparently loaded
> through "check_password" and available for use, but none
> of the other table classes (like Contact) were.  So everything
> worked with UserSec, but nothing else. Fixed by adding
> a "require Bio::Genex::Contact;" before using this.

Hi Michael,

First, I'm back from Mexico. Fire away any more questions.

Second, it's really cool that you're now stress-testing the API, I'll
have to practice my duck-and-cover techniques again ;-)

The issue of which modules to include (with a 'use' or 'require'
pragma), should be fixed in the documentation (someplace??). 

The issue is that loading modules into memory takes time. Since there
is a module for every table in the DB (which is a lot of modules) most
applications will only need to access at most a few, so it would be a
major unecessary slowdown to include them all by default. 

The guideline in Perl is that whenever you are going to access
anything out of a class, either a variable or a class method, you have
to 'use' that class. Calling ->new() is one such case, another is
->get_all_objects() and ->get_objects(). 

I am open to suggestions as to how to improve this.

jas.