[Openinteract-dev] Re: refetch() and update() in SPOPS::DBI

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

On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 08:38, Ray Zimmerman wrote:
> I know it's been a while since we've discussed these ideas (around 
> 8/9/01 on ope...@li...), but I finally 
> decided to implement a refetch and an update method in SPOPS::DBI. I 
> know you weren't completely happy with the name 'update' ... feel 
> free to change it to something you like better.

Excellent work! I think this should work fine. I applied the patch and
then modified the code a bit -- mostly style this and that. There were a
couple of little things (field mapping in 'update', putting a table into
an arrayref, etc.), nothing to speak of.

Now that I think of it, I should probably create a utility method to
filter out private fields and translate mapped fields.... ok, there's a
new method filter_fields() in SPOPS::DBI. We'll see how that works.

How is 'field_update()' for a method name instead of 'update()'?

> This currently does what I need it to do, but that doesn't mean it 
> won't break some area of SPOPS that I don't normally use (security, 
> field mapping, etc)

It feels good to me. The fact that you're already using this is very
reassuring :-)

Chris

PS - As for the other items: someday.... Daily paying nonperl work is
eating up lots of time. There are days when I miss perl...

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Chris Winters (ch...@cw...)
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