[Seaside] [Article] Reddit.st - In 10 elegant Smalltalk classes

[Sven Van Caekenberghe]

Hey Laurent,

On 30 Jul 2010, at 21:48, laurent laffont wrote:

> Hi Sven,
> 
> I've enjoyed reading your tutorial, good work !
> 
> ** I've tried to add a link on http://caretaker.wolf359.be:8080/reddit, it always throw this error:
> 
> GlorpDatabaseReadError: ERROR: relation "reddit_links_id_seq" does not exist at character 16
> 
> Your request could not be completed. An exception occurred.

Thx for reporting this, it should be fixed now.

> ** About code formatting, could you put the class name in front of methods ? Like this:
> 
> RedditLink>>initialize
>     self points: 0; created: TimeStamp now
> 
> or 
> 
> RedditDatabaseResource class>>login    
>     DefaultLogin ifNil: [ DefaultLogin := self createLogin ].
>     ^ DefaultLogin
> 
> 
> Sometimes I've been lost....

Good point, I'll put it in the next version.

> ** from Common Lisp to Phyton. -> Python
> 
> I've never used GLORP so it was the hard part for me. Indeed I'm not sure about this sort of code:
> 
> WAReddit>>voteUp: link   
>     self session glorpSession inUnitOfWorkDo: [ :session |
>         session register: link.
>         link voteUp ]
> 
> Can WAReddit be independent from persistence solution ? In ActiveRecord way I would expect something like:
> 
> WAReddit>>voteUp: link
>     link voteUp; save.

Another good point, I'll have to think about that.

> Anyway I will try to code it and see, it's a good opportunity for a screencast :)
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Laurent Laffont

Regards,

Sven