
On Apr 8, 2005, at 9:29 AM, <Henning.Ramm@mediapro-gmbh.de> wrote:
Ahoi!
For a simple database abstraction module I once wrote some table class. Now I'm trying to port it to twisted and thought it should inherit from enterprise.row.RowObject. (I hope that isn't deprecated?)
RowObject urges me to declare all the table properties as class variables. My old class reads this information directly from the database (show fields) to adapt itself to a set of similar tables, and I'd like to keep this feature.
Seems like I would need some RowObjectFactory that takes a connection pool and a table name and returns a RowObject - or how would you do this?
RowObject isn't deprecated, but is woefully unmaintained. It is missing a bunch of functionality that is probably necessary for many applications. It would be nice if someone took it over and added the necessary functionality. As such, the recommendation for it has generally been "if you like it, go ahead and use it, but you'll probably find it's missing something you need." If you're comfortable with that, and are willing to extend it as necessary, that's great. Even better if you submit the changes back. I haven't looked at row in a long time, but I thought it did have some functionality in there meant for autogenerating the class from the database schema. Maybe I was just wishing it did, though. James