[DB-SIG] How to *you* access your database objects?
Kevin Jacobs
jacobs@penguin.theopalgroup.com
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:24:11 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Eivind Tagseth wrote:
> * Kevin Jacobs <jacobs@penguin.theopalgroup.com> [021016 16:32]:
> > Eivind, Gerhard, and anyone else who is interested.. I've just released a
> > totally re-written db_row implementation that I mentioned in my previous
> > DB-SIG mail. It implements much cleaner dictionary, tuple, and object-like
> > semantics and includes an optional C extension module for speed. I've not
> > written much documentation for it, though the source if fairly clean and has
> > a fair amount of inline documentation.
>
> > Please let me know what you think.
>
> Seems to be working just fine, and now I can pretend that my MetaRows are
> dictionaries as well. The only feature that disappeared as far as I can
> see is that you can now do:
>
> obj = db_row.MetaRow(('a','b','c'))((1,2,3))
>
> obj['doesnotexist'] = 5
> obj.fields.doesnotexist = 6
>
> Without errors.
Good catch! This was a flaw in only the Python version, and it has been
corrected. I've release db_row version 0.6alpha, which can be found at:
http://opensource.theopalgroup.com
Here is the complete ChangeLog:
Changes from version 0.5 -> 0.6:
o Added missing slots declaration from Python FieldsBase object. This
corrected a major flaw in the pure-Python implementation which caused
the allocation of per-instance dictionaries, and allowing access to
undeclared fields. The C version of FieldsBase was not affected.
o Fixed exception types so that various accessors raise the appropriate
exceptions. e.g., previously __getitem__ would incorrectly raise
AttributeError exceptions. These changes were made in both the Python
and C versions.
o Added many new test cases to the regression suite, including much more
rigorous read/write testing.
o Removed some unnecessary (and slow!) code from the C fields_subscript
function. I suspect it was a left-over from past debugging that was
not completely removed.
Regards,
-Kevin
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