Having reflected on your comments for several days, I have realized the following:
  1. I was hoping to have all means of facilitating database connections doable in configuration, not application. This is the mantra and motivation for Net::FTP::Common.
  2. I believe the keyword in your above comments is extend. If DBIx::Connect is properly designed then there should be someway to subclass it with Local::DBIx::Connectso that the assorted functions which retrieve connection information and use it to mske dbhs can be specialized for the specifics of my current work domain.

    This is not a bad option at all... I just need to look into my API (which has no documentation on subclassing) and

    1. document the means of subclassing and its motivation and
    2. make sure that it can be done easily via AppConfig

Carter's compass: I know I'm on the right track when by deleting something, I'm adding functionality.

In reply to Re: Re: I swim in a sea of databases and DBIx::Connect is barely adequate by princepawn
in thread I swim in a sea of databases and DBIx::Connect is barely adequate by princepawn

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