[Koha-devel] Koha and DBIC

[Chris Cormack]

On 18 September 2014 1:49:34 am NZST, Colin Campbell <colin.campbell at ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 08:50:37AM -0400, Mark Tompsett wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> > Just to add to the confusion ;)
>> > When I wrote "some Koha::Object" here,
>> > I was not literally suggesting Koha::Object,
>> > I was thinking of something like Koha::Biblio or Koha::Patron etc.
>> That’s what I understood. So physically, we may have the tables we
>currently have accessed via DBIC, but the Koha::Biblio object would
>blend DBIC objects related to Biblios and Items. Right? This would mean
>that Koha::Biblio would provide whatever methods regardless of the
>backend structure.
>
>Trouble is it sidesteps fixing the schema. The interplay between biblio
>and biblioitems will remain a problem for maintenance in future. There
>is already special code added to link the classes because their
>relationship is not maintained by the database. Special cases tend to
>grow over time and spawn more special cases.
>

It's not an either/or proposition, having Koha::Biblio doesn't mean you can't fix the schema too. It just means all the business logic for dealing with it is in that module/object. Instead of strewn about in scripts all over the place. 

Chris 




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