Re: [SQLObject] eagerly fetching joined objects

[Oleg B. <ph...@ph...>]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:32:08AM +0200, Simon Cross wrote:
> I encountered a similar need in one of my own projects and wrote a
> caching version of RelatedJoin that you could probably take ideas from
> for a caching version of MultipleJoin / ForeignKey.  You can find the
> code at http://sutekh.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sutekh/trunk/sutekh/sutekh/core/CachedRelatedJoin.py?revision=2873&view=markup.
> I considered contributing it back to SQLObject but it's a bit finicky
> to use -- one has to manually initialize the cache (see init_cache

   It would be an interesting additions even if it's not suitable for
the SQLObject core. I can add it to sqlobject/include if you document it
and add an example or even better - a test.

> method) and then flush the cache (flush_cache) or just particular

   SQLObject usually uses the word "clear" instead of flush. ;-)

> items (invalidate_cache_item) from within one's application as needed.

   Populating/clearing the cache is too application-specific, it'd be
hard to program a universal solution. But if there is a documented API
for applications to use - no problem.

Oleg.
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