[Zope-Perl] ZOPE DBI adapter

[Harry Danilevsky]

> 
> I guess so.  Time find a way to extend the string with arbitrary
> key/value pairs.
> 
> Currently we have use:
> 
>     [ <username> [ ":" <password> ] "@" ] <dbi source spec>
> 
> it would be tempting to change that into:
> 
>     <dbi source spec> ( ";" <key> "=" <value> )*
> 
> but as the <dbi source spec> could actually use any chars it is hard
> to know the there the spec string ends.  The safe solution to that
> would be to introduce escape sequences for writing literal ";" in the
> source spec.
> 
> We could perhaps also get away with ignoring escaping and something
> like:
> 
>    <dbi source spec> [ ";" ( ";" <key> "=" <value> )+ ]
> 
> i.e. that everything after ";;" are extra parameters to the connect
> call. E.g.:
> 
>    dbi:Oracle:host=foo;sid=42;;username=foo;AutoCommit=0
> 
> Other ideas?
> 
> Regards,
> Gisle
> 

Why not use a string verbatim, and instead of calling DBI->connect as
perl.callm,
call perl.eval("""DBI->connect(".$connection_string.")""") (or whatever the
correct python syntax is)


-- Harry Danilevsky


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