[Melbourne-pm] Apache::DBI
Stephen Edmonds
Stephen.Edmonds at its.monash.edu.au
Thu Feb 15 15:38:03 PST 2007
Scott,
It isn't that Apache::DBI overrides DBI->connect(). What happens is
that DBI itself is written to detect if Apache::DBI is loaded and if so
use that connect method.
If you bring up the DBI code [1] and search for Apache you will find
logic that changes the connect methods.
I suppose you could do it without changing the original module but the
only way I can think of at the moment would be symbol table manipulation
which may not work depending on when the modules are loaded.
Another option would be a wrapper or sub-class that added in the caching.
Thanks,
Stephen
[1] http://search.cpan.org/src/TIMB/DBI-1.53/DBI.pm
Scott Penrose wrote:
> Hey Guys
>
> I am working on a set of caching modules for mod_perl.
> I absolutely love the transparency of Apache::DBI - you simply load
> the module and then any time you use DBI->connect - it uses the
> cached - or precached versions.
>
> However looking at the code:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/src/PGOLLUCCI/Apache-DBI-1.05/lib/Apache/DBI.pm
>
> I can't figure out how this works.
>
> The code for precache makes sense. But I can't figure out where in
> the code it takes over from DBI->connect. I do know it must be loaded
> before any other module does a "use DBI".
>
> Any ideas guys? My code will be a pre-cached version of a some XSL
> modules - which means that you do nothing new and your code will use
> the precompiled XSL - where as traditionally everyone implements
> their own cache - this means your code works faster when moving from
> CGI to mod_perl - with no code change, or even from Catalyst stand
> alone into Catalyst via mod_perl.
>
> Scott
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Stephen Edmonds
Senior Portal Developer / Integrator
Flexible Learning and Teaching Program
ITS, Monash University
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