[Perl-workflow-devel] Updated: Dynamically loaded configs patch (now incl tests)

[Andrew O'B. <an...@or...>]

Hi all,

We're just resurrecting some workflow projects here at work and I needed
this feature so attached is an patch against 1.32. I've also updated the
original ticket below.

http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18265

This patch includes a new dummy workflow and appropriate tests to
exercise the feature.


The original motivation for this feature was that for various reasons we
weren't able to know all the required workflow config files ahead of
time for a particular application. At one point we even had external
dynamically generated files I think.

I guess that if you have large configs or a large set of configs then
this could be considered a performance feature if you're not going to
touch much of the config during a given script's execution path. For
example, we also use this in regularly scheduled jobs that check
workflows related to the various types of support/project/sales/etc jobs
in our worklog system.

Any given run of that script might touch three or four types of workflow
so there's no real point in preloading the 20 or 30 types of workflow
every single time it executes. Some runs may touch nothing if there has
been no activity in the system.

Happy to modify based on your feedback.

Cheers,

Andrew

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