SQLPASPlugin

[Wichert Akkerman]

Miles wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (sorry, I have been "round the houses" with this query, but am hoping 
> this is the best place for it)
> 
> I'm using a slightly-modified version of SQLPASPlugin with plain PAS to
> integrate with a sql database.  It's all actually been fairly painless
> to get set up, so thanks!
> 
> I noticed in the readme the following note:
> 
> "Currently SQLPASPlugin is dependent upon PlonePAS for writing
> properties back to the SQL datasource. The plan in the future would
> be to remove the requirement on PlonePAS."
> 
> As I already have this working with only very minor changes to the
> current source, is this something I can contribute?  The plone-specific
> pieces all look easily extracted to a separate package (at the moment I
> just commented them out).

Considering PAS doesn't really do updating of properties I'm wondering 
how you mananged to do that.

>    - additional data type 'unix_time' converting a seconds-since-1970 int
> value into a datetime (and back again when setting);

That probably needs to be timezone aware if it isn't already.

> Is this something that might be of general use?
> 
> We also have a need for genericsetup import/export adapters for the
> plugin, so may also be able to contribute these if they are useful.
> 
> If it sounds useful, then I'll write some tests to cover the changes and
> send the patch to ?

Or: request access to the collective and commit this in a SQLPASPlugin 
branch directly.

Wichert.

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