Re: [Openinteract-help] lc and searching

[Vsevolod (S. I. <si...@cs...>]

Chris,

> Seriously, if we didn't lc the fieldnames in the tie implementation we'd 
> be in a world of hurt -- is this field loaded, is this field changed, 
> and similar checks would be more error prone. But these should be 
> encapsulated in the tie implementation and I'm not sure why you'd care 
> about them.

I care because I can't use field names with uppercase letters! :)

> Yeah, that's what my idea was too. The only problem with this is we're 
> treading dangerously close into parsing and I really don't want to do that.
> I guess we can keep it simple and pull out all the foo.bar strings, see 
> if 'foo' is an alias and if so add the proper linking clause. (We do 
> this in OpenInteract::Common and OpenInteract2::Action::CommonSearch to 
> build search queries.)

Sounds like a good idea.

>> After I get a bit more familiar with SPOPS, let me know if I can give 
>> you a hand with this.
> 
> 
> Be careful what you wish for :-)

Being purely selfish - I want to have a robust and maintainable 
persistence layer for my apps. :)

Simon
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