Re: [SQLObject] Fwd: [TurboGears] Hook for setting up a database environment

[Brad C. <bk...@mu...>]

On 29 Oct 2005 at 9:41, Kevin Dangoor wrote:

> I have seen this myself with kinterbasdb. The need to "init" the
> module is a common one that needs to be done once.
> 
> What do you think is the best way to do this?
> 
> We could add init='my.callable' to the URI and then have the firebird
> driver only run that the first time. Does that seem reasonable?

I have a suggestion. I have been thinking about this problem too.

it effects py.test and sqlobject-admin, so we need a general solution that 
will work in those environments too.

so, if 'init=x.y.z' could drill down package, module, function and call it, 
that'd be good.


oth, for py.test it'd be nice to call an init method that's not necessarily in 
the python path.

I was musing about using type_conv=X  since this is a kinterbasdb 
specific issue.

then the firebird driver could examine the type_conv value, if it's all digits 
it could just pass that int value to kinterbasdb.init, otherwise it would treat 
the arg as a module to be imported and passed as the type_conv value.

This is specific to the way kinterbasdb's init method works now. It might 
not work this way in the future.

(using init= as the param name might result in a collision later if a more 
general init param is supported by sqlobject itself, perhaps in the 
sqlobject-admin case...





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