[sldev] [ANN] certified http development

[Nik Radford]

Fair enough :)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Williams" <rdw at lindenlab.com>
To: "Nik Radford" <nik at terminaldischarge.net>
Cc: "Tao Takashi" <tao.takashi at googlemail.com>; <sldev at lists.secondlife.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: [sldev] [ANN] certified http development


> Duck typing is probably close enough, actually.  I mean, you don't need to 
> inherit from an abstract base class to implement a simple API.  The way 
> I'm doing this is right now (though this could probably use some 
> improvement) is the Context object has a member that implements a 'store' 
> method and an 'objects' method, and that's the entire API.  There's an 
> implementation that uses files, but it should be straightforward to 
> implement it using MySQL or whatever you like.
>
> -RYaN
>
> Nik Radford wrote:
>> Its a shame, at least its something being worked to ^_^
>>
>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>
>>     *From:* Tao Takashi <mailto:tao.takashi at googlemail.com>
>>     *To:* Nik Radford <mailto:nik at terminaldischarge.net>
>>     *Cc:* Phoenix <mailto:phoenix at secondlife.com> ; Donovan Linden
>>     <mailto:donovan at lindenlab.com> ; sldev at lists.secondlife.com
>>     <mailto:sldev at lists.secondlife.com> ; Ryan Williams (Which)
>>     <mailto:rdw at lindenlab.com>
>>     *Sent:* Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:14 PM
>>     *Subject:* Re: [sldev] [ANN] certified http development
>>
>>     Hi!
>>
>>         As long as you wrap the data access up in a nice class, I
>>         don't know if
>>         python supports interfaces or abstract classes, but it may be
>>         a good idea to
>>         create a data access interface, which other coders can inherit
>>         from and
>>         implement they're own back-end code for data storage.
>>
>>
>>
>>     In Python 2.x there are not interfaces in the language directly
>>     but there are implementations
>>     like one from the Zope project (also usable standalone). In Python
>>     3 there will be then
>>     Abstract Base Classes. But that's still a bit ahead I think
>>     (although the Alpha has
>>     just been released IIRC).
>>
>>     -- Tao
>>
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