[Seaside] Automatic Object Storage To MySQL

[William Harford]

On 26-Jan-06, at 4:07 PM, stephane ducasse wrote:


>
> I suggest you to have a look at Magritte.  You use a simple meta  
> description to declare more information
> that is used everywhere.

Currently you can not specify field types. The field type is guessed  
at the time of table creation from the contents of the i-var if nil  
nothing is created. Shall we say lazy table creation ?

Specifying or more accurately allowing the support of more types is  
top of the priority list but the object knowing how to store it's  
self with out the programmer telling is the main goal of IOSPersistent.


>
> How do you handle relationships in your approach?

For IOSPersistent objects I use a lookup table. So an i-var that  
contains an IOSPersistent object can at any time store any  
IOSPersistent object or nil.

Other than nil i-vars can not change there types. Once a string  
always a string in every instance unless you create a IOSPersistent  
proxy object (it's easy to do).

>
> Stef
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