Object Database Access v 1.0 released

Ruby
1

Hi all!

Here comes yet another way to map Ruby-Objects to a Relational Database:

ODBA is an unintrusive Object Cache system. It adresses the crosscutting
concern of object storage by disconnecting and serializing objects into
storage. All disconnected connections are replaced by instances of
ODBA::Stub, thus enabling transparent object-loading.

ODBA supports:

  • transparent loading of connected objects
  • index-vectors
  • transactions
  • transparently fetches Hash-Elements without loading the entire Hash

An Example:
include ‘odba’

#connect default storage manager to a relational database
ODBA.storage.dbi = ODBA::ConnectionPool.new(‘DBI::pg::database’, ‘user’,
‘pw’)

class Counter
include ODBA::Persistable
def initialize
@pos = 0
end
def up
@pos += 1
self.odba_store
@pos
end
def down
@pos -= 1
self.odba_store
@pos
end
end

Thanks in advance for any feedback that comes my way!

Cheers
Hannes

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2

Oops. Where can you get it?

raa:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/odba/
documentation:
http://odba.ywesee.com/
download:
http://odba.ywesee.com/
scm:
http://scm.ywesee.com/?p=odba

Hannes

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3

Interesting.

How would you do a search?
For example, how would you find all Counters with a pos > 10 but not 13?
Is the search done centrally, or must you download all Counters before
you can do the search?

4

Lou

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:19:44PM +0900, Lou V. wrote:

How would you do a search?

I’ll have to eat my own example here: we’ve only ever been interested in
string search - i.e. find all users whose last name begins with ‘Van’:

require ‘odba’
require ‘odba/index_definition’

class User
attr_accessor :first_name, :last_name
include ODBA::Persistable
def initialize(first_name, last_name)
@first_name = first_name
@last_name = last_name
end
end

index_def = ODBA::IndexDefinition.new
index_def.index_name = ‘users_by_last_name’
index_def.origin_klass = ‘User’
index_def.target_klass = ‘User’
index_def.resolve_search_term = ‘last_name.downcase’

ODBA.storage.dbi = DBI.connect(‘DBI:pg:test’, ‘test’, ‘’)
ODBA.cache.create_index(index_def, Object)

composer = User.new(‘Ludwig’, ‘Van Beethoven’)
composer.odba_store
painter = User.new(‘Vincent’, ‘Van Gogh’)
painter.odba_store
scientist = User.new(‘Albert’, ‘Einstein’)
scientist.odba_store

ODBA.cache.retrieve_from_index(‘users_by_last_name’, ‘van’)
→ [composer, painter]

For example, how would you find all Counters with a pos > 10 but not 13?
Is the search done centrally, or must you download all Counters before
you can do the search?
The numerical Counter#pos case could be done, but is not implemented…

Hannes

–
Mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards

Hannes W.
Konzeption & Entwicklung

pub 1024D/60312B5F 2003-10-09 Hannes W. [email protected]
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2B5F

+41 43 540 05 49

www.ywesee.com > intellectual capital connected > www.oddb.org

5

Thanks.