I pushed a small update of Reactor up to Subversion last night. This new version fixes some oddities related to queries of linked tables from Record objects. Also, I finally got around to minimally testing Reactor with a SQL 2005 database. No problems to report. I suppose that means that means that next I will be adding support for MySQL and other databases systems which should be a relative piece of cake.
After that, it’s documentation. This’ll take forever. I don’t mind writing the documentation; it’s just that this is the most extensive system I’ve ever attempted to document. There’s just so many subtleties to catch. The cool thing is that all the examples I write from the docs will be turned into unit tests!
The last thing I need to do is write unit tests. I really need to do this so that I can learn some of the subtleties myself. Like, for instance, with the new configuration file you can define relationships to other objects. If you assign an alias to that relationship I need to document just exactly how that behaves. Right now, I just try things in code till they work which means there are probably subtle bugs in there somewhere.
The SVN bleeding edge repository is here: svn://www.alagad.com/reactor
Anyone care to help write some tests or add support for their favorite DBMS?
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First off: Great work Doug!
I have tried several tools for automating DAO/Gateway creation (Arf!/ObjectBreeze/Transfer etc) but none have fulfilled my needs yet.
Before giving up, I tried your svn code for Reactor, and I found it (almost) perfect for my needs. I spent no more than 5 minutes getting it up and running, even though there isn’t much documentation yet..
The features that made it stand out from the rest (in my eyes) are:
– Possibility of running in different modes (can create "real" CFC’s, or do it "on the fly")
– When creating CFC’s, it creates one extra for your own customized code
– Easy to understand XML configuration
– Built in validation, but also option of adding custom validation
To sum it up.. I love this tool, and I am sure going to use it in my current project (our new CMS software built with Mach-II) even though its still in early development stages..
Looking forward to see some more documentation, and I hope that those doc’s will help more people understand how great this tool is.
Please let me know if you think there is anything I can help you with, Doug. I love this tool already, and would help if there is anything I can do to make it even better.
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Tormod – Thanks for the kind words! I know it’s been slow progress so far, but you’ll see some things taking shape by mid January, I think.
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