DB ORM

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-08-09 15:07, Robert McGinley wrote:
> I think a better model to follow would be SQL alchemy which allows you to test the tables or "declaratively" set columns as attributes of the model.

You mean that the columns of a table should be declared as attributes of 
the corresponding class? Hmm, I don't know, I like that Rails way.

> Rob
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Aug 9, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Jacob Carlborg<doob at me.com>  wrote:
>
>> 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


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/Jacob Carlborg