[Helma-user] [Helma-dev] Announcing Rabbit

[tobias.schaefer at orf.at]

hi hannes

> this rabbit thing is very cool. It's definitely a direction in which
> Helma needs to grow, and I hope you will continue working on it. I
> will be supportive for making this an official part of Helma once it
> gets mature enough.   

that's nice! i am glad you like it.

> I also think that your way of starting this as an API (instead of a
> fully knitted app/module) is the right one, although my understanding
> is still very limited, and I didn't have much time to think about it.

yeah, apologies for not providing the full insight; but i am working on it.
(time is *such* an issue...)

> One idea about the DB creation/handling stuff: The sqlShell code is
> pretty much a mess, but there might be some parts in there that could
> be useful for rabbit. Stuff like low level JDBC interaction... Maybe
> pulling it out of sqlShell and adding it to the rabbit API could
> increase the usefulness of that code.    

you're right. it was a little bit ignorant to code everything from scratch again. i will take some more closer looks at sqlShell. there's also a lot of things to be re-used from inspector, i (re)discovered right after my announcement.

> There seems to be a problem with the hsqldb: database content seems
> to gone after restarts. When i look at the hsql.db directory, the
> data seems to be there, but the URL /1/ renders an Object not found
> page.   
> Maybe it has to do with the database not being closed or opened
> properly. 

i think you could be right; after i made a switch from using getDBConnection to the java.sql methods i did not think about closing the database connection ever. of course i checked my test app if the database entries persisted a helma restart but i better will dive into the code again to be sure.

ciao,
tobi