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

[Ray Z. <rz...@co...>]

At 11:47 PM -0400 6/20/02, Chris Winters wrote:
>How is 'field_update()' for a method name instead of 'update()'?

I like it. The name 'update' is definitely too generic. I already ran 
into a class that already had an update() method doing something else.

Another thing that I thought of is that we should probably allow 
refetch() to be called without any parameters, in which case it would 
re-fetch all fields instead of throwing an exception. The difference 
between ...

	$object->refetch;

... and ...

	$class = ref $object;
	$object = $class->fetch( $object-> id );

... is that the former would not do pre/post-fetch actions and any 
other references to the object would still point to the (now updated) 
object.

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

Bummer ... that's what I was afraid of. Well, we want you to know 
that SPOPS is a tremendous benefit to our project. With ESPOPS it's 
doing most of what we need it to, and the rest has been relatively 
easy to build on top.

Thanks,

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