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[Openinteract-help] referring to multiple tables within a package?

[Chris M. <Chr...@te...>]

Hi,

I'm starting to write a little app that needs to draw from 3 different
tables, but only needs to write to one of them.  Is there a way that I can
pull them all into a single package (like multiple definitions in the
spops.perl or something)?  I was looking at all the system packages, and it
seems like they are one-table-per-package, with relationships between.  Is
that the proper way to do it?

Thanks,

Chris McDaniel

Re: [Openinteract-help] referring to multiple tables within a package?

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

* Chris McDaniel (Chr...@te...) [011214 11:59]:
> I'm starting to write a little app that needs to draw from 3
> different tables, but only needs to write to one of them.  Is there
> a way that I can pull them all into a single package (like multiple
> definitions in the spops.perl or something)?  I was looking at all
> the system packages, and it seems like they are
> one-table-per-package, with relationships between.  Is that the
> proper way to do it?

You can do it any way you want -- to put multiple definitions in the
conf/spops.perl file, just add new hash keys. Check out the file in
the base_theme package for an example -- we define both a 'theme' and
'theme_property' object.

If the app has objects that are closely related to one another, it's
usually a good idea to put them in a single package.

Chris

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