DB ORM

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-08-09 14:19, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2011-08-09 09:30, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
>> Just stumbled upon this db orm for c++ that uses the gcc frontend to
>> rewrite c++ code to make classes suitable for database access.
>>
>> http://www.codesynthesis.com/products/odb/
>>
>> They are using pragmas to accomplish this. I guess an equally good
>> implementation in D would use custom attributes for this once (if) they
>> are supported.
>>
>> /Jonas
>
> I'm pretty sure you can create an ORM library like that with what we
> already have in D today. If needed, mixins can be used like custom
> attributes, but it will look very ugly.

I can also add that I think D can do a lot better job than C++ with this 
ODB library. I think it would be possible to do this:

class Person : Model {}

And let the super class get all info from the database, just like 
ActiveRecord in Ruby on Rails.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg