Hello,
I'm in the process of converting an existing application from CLSQL to Postmodern. This application makes heavy use of CLSQL's *db-auto-sync* feature, whereby new instances of view (DAO) classes are immediately inserted into the DB table, and changes to view class instance slots result in immediate updates.
While I like the explicit approach of save-dao/update-dao/etc., there is just too much code in this application that relies on the auto-sync behavior to adopt that approach in the immediate term.
So, a few questions:
- would a *db-auto-sync*-like feature be accepted if I were to submit a pull request, or are there philosophical objections to having this feature in mainline Postmodern?
- if this feature is not desired, would you be willing to accept a few patches that would make it easier for me to build this feature as a separate third-party library? Specifically, I'm thinking of something like CLSQL's *db-deserializing* flag, which would indicate to my code when it is being called by a dao-row-reader (and thus should not propagate slot value changes to the database) vs when it is being called by user code.
Thank you, -Eli