[GT] Re: Re: DBI and Mysql problems

["Thomas Weigert" <weigert AT mst.edu>]

Tielman,

could you please write up your experience of connecting to MySQL as a
little tutorial. We can add this into the documentation, and it will
greatly help subsequent users?

RAS,

yes, a good error message here would be beneficial....

Th.

Robert A. Schmied wrote:
> Tielman Esterhuizen wrote:
>> Thanks again Thomas.
>>
>> SOLVED> Problem was that I did not have "DB::module genericdbi" in my
>> options file. I picked this up while reading through Conf.pm.
>>
>> Can anyone contribute to the documentation? What is the process?
>>
>
> aloha Tielman
>
> you can post any changes you'd like to see to the list either as actual
> diffs of the current pod or text that you think is better than the
> current doc text.
>
>
> certainly this documentation needs to be improved, but in addition,
> i'd argue that the gt tool kit could/should be made smart enough to
> detect this missing requirement and give the user useful feedback.
> looks like the place for this could be GT::Eval::create_db_object
> and or GT::Eval::create_standard_object ...
>
> maybe something like
>
> our $db;
> sub create_db_object {
>    my $db_module = GT::Conf::get("DB::module");
>
>    unless ( defined $db_module ) {
>        GT::Conf::load();
>    }
>    unless ( defined ( $db_module = GT::Conf::get("DB::module") ) ) {
>        my $msg = join "", "$::prog_name: Error: ",
>         "gt configuration error: key \"DB::module\" not found.\n",
>         "this key must be defined with a value ",
>         "that names the GT DB module name you are using.\n",
>         "examples\n\"DB::module genericdbi\"\n",
>         "\"DB::module Text\"",
>         "\n";
>        die "$msg";
>    }
>    unless ( defined $db ) {
>        $db = create_standard_object("DB::" .
> GT::Conf::get("DB::module"));
>    }
>    return $db;
> }
>
>
>