[jifty-devel] Jifty-DBI: patch proposal for a delete method for
the Collection class
Jesse Vincent
jesse at bestpractical.com
Fri Oct 20 12:44:06 EDT 2006
> Because other agents may then be in charge to propagate those deletions
> to other systems, if the deletions made by the operator are not atomic,
> there may be cases where the user will be removed her accesses for
> a ressource on some systems but kept them on others during a not so
> short time period.
>
> If granting accesses to the same ressource on various system may spread
> on a (relatively) long period, it is very important (IMO) that their
> revocation be as quick (and atomic) as possible.
So. _atomic_ is something else entirely. Jifty::DBI has support for SQL
transactions.. That might be another way to get a delete that's atomic
and doesn't violate JDBI abstraction.
>
> regards,
> -F.
>
> PS: I withdraw my demand to have a delete method at the JDBI::Collection
> level: parallel to this message writting, I had dig around the code
> in order to find out how to get a WHERE clause whose columns are not
> qualified. Unfortunately that would oblige to modify too much code,
> and I think I have a workaround that will fit at my application level.
> Sorry for the buzz.
Discussion is good. Even disagreement is good :) It helps to make
peoples' ideas and intents clearer.
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