[Seaside] Where to store db connection value?

[Bany, Michel]

I use this technique by subclassing #responseForRequest:
This works very well.
Michel.

 

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> [mailto:seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf 
> Of Julian Fitzell
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:04 PM
> To: The Squeak Enterprise Aubergines Server - general discussion.
> Subject: Re: [Seaside] Where to store db connection value?
> 
> Well, certainly not the only way but one option is to use 
> WADynamicVariable:
> 
> Create a subclass of WADynamicVariable (say MYCurrentDatabase)
> 
> Then, in your session (maybe in #performRequest: - can't 
> remember exactly where the best place to plug in is and I'm 
> at work at the moment), you do something like:
> 
> performRequest: aRequest
> 	^ MYCurrentDatabase use: self database during: [super 
> performRequest: 
> aRequest]
> 
> Now you can access the database from anywhere (during request 
> handling) by doing "MYCurrentDatabase value".  You could even add:
> 
> Object>>currentDatabase
>     ^ MYCurrentDatabase value
> 
> to make things cleaner.
> 
> You might need to tweak that a bit; as I said, I can't quite 
> remember the best place to plug it in (and I was doing it 
> most recently with Seaside 2.3 anyway) but you can look at 
> how WACurrentSession does it because it's doing pretty much 
> the same thing.
> 
> Hope that's helpful,
> 
> Julian
> 
> Chad Nantais wrote:
> > My application is composed of Models and Views (Seaside 
> Components). 
> > The models (rather than the views) need to access the data I have 
> > stored in a dictionary object.  I have multiple data stores 
> > ('development' and 'testing').  I have added a session 
> configuration 
> > variable (dataStoreName) in a subclass of 
> WASessionConfiguration that 
> > holds the name of the data store I want to use (eg. 
> 'testing' for unit 
> > tests). However, since the models subclass Object and are not 
> > sublasses of WAComponent, I can't get them to access the value of
> > MYSessionConfiguration>>dataStoreName
> > 
> > How can I give my models access to the value of 
> dataStoreName so they 
> > can access data from the configured dataStore?
> > 
> > Chad
> > 
> > --
> > Chad Nantais, CISSP
> > 
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