[Openinteract-dev] some SPOPS notes

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

First, there's an article on Perlmonks [1] about using SPOPS (along with
other modules) to find MP3 files and insert the metadata into a DBI
database. He (and others) also prompted me to create an SPOPS tutorial
which I'll hopefully be able to get out relatively soon.

Second, the author of that article pinged me beforehand and asked why he
couldn't specify the DBI connection params in the object configuration.
I didn't have a particularly good answer, so I implemented this (as a
ClassFactory behavior) for both DBI and LDAP, and both are in CVS (in
the 'SPOPS/eg' directory).

Third, I've modified all SPOPS code to throw exceptions rather than die
with an error message and set package variables. For now, there's a
backward compatibility layer so you can still access the SPOPS::Error
package variables, but that will be removed before we get to 1.0 (a
little while yet).

All this will be in 0.56, out fairly soon. After that the next release
(barring bugfix releases) should have the modified object relationships
as specified (more or less) by Ray Z's two excellent emails. Before 1.0,
I'd also like to make a stab at centralizing the core SPOPS calls so the
implementing modules have to do less. We'll see....

Chris

[1] http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=136913

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