Perrin,

I look forward to seeing your paper!

In particular I find I am doing the same things over and over again. I keep thinking, wouldn't it be cool if I could easily relate this 'hash' or this 'array of hashes' to a DB table.

Just recently I have seen some quite specific modules, such as hash2table and table2hash, they look fine, as far as they go, but I think I am looking for some greater level of abstraction. For example the ability to easily manage complex data-structures, for storing the state of a complex state machine, or for storing configuration hashes or arrays which might be quite variable in nature. In one application I have mappings of fields in an import file realting them to a database table. It is two arrays, now, how about an easy interface to save an array of arrays in a named structure and save them in the db. Of course, the arrays are both the same size, but they could be as small as 2 values each or as many as 40 to 50. I just want them back the same way I had them before.

I know I can do some of this using a CONFIG module, but I am hoping that I don't have to write some sort of kludge around a CONFIG module when a DBI wrapper of some sort might be easier to handle and more usable for me.

Make sense?

jdtoronto

In reply to Re: Re: DBI and wrappers etc confusion. by jdtoronto
in thread DBI and wrappers etc confusion. by jdtoronto

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