[symfony-users] Re: symfony extensible model for other data source than default ORM (API, SOAP WS, CouchDB...)

Thanks for your support ;)

On Jul 31, 6:13 am, Sid Ferreira <sid....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> UP! (I have nothing to say about it, I just want support what he said as an
> important feature)
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:45, JP <jph...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > In symfony 1.2, I can only create models using one of the 2 ORMs
> > Doctrine or Propel. Each of the 2 plugins implements some tasks for
> > generating an admin backend, creating fixture data, some input
> > validation.
>
> > Now let's say I want to use a different data source, that is not a
> > database covered by the ORMs, for example:
> > - a web API (twitter, last.fm, flickr, salesforce.com ...)
> > - a SOAP web service
> > - a datastore like CouchDB
>
> > I believe that if I want to use one of those, I'll have to build or
> > find a plugin similar to sfPropelPlugin or sfDoctrinePlugin to access
> > the data source. In case my datasource provides CRUD functionnality, I
> > might want to generate an admin interface, which means creating a
> > generator and maybe duplicating code with the default ORMs admin
> > generator.
>
> > Another approach would be to have a set of datasource agnostic model
> > classes that will provide feature such as an admin generator, input
> > validation, fixture import and an interface to the datasource. This
> > will allow developers to create custom models for various datasource
> > and not be restricted to databases.
>
> > I believe this feature is similar to DataSources in CakePHP or to the
> > ActiveModel planned for Rails 3. I've also been using that pattern
> > other the past couple years in a custom PHP framework that is used for
> > a web app using a SOAP backend. I work on daily basis with SOAP
> > developers (on new features for instance), where I need to start
> > building my webapp sometimes before the web service is ready. In this
> > case I create my model class and use a datasource yaml (which will be
> > a simple yaml file with dummy data) and when the web service is ready,
> > I just have to switch the datasource. This allows me to not wait and
> > be able to develop features in parallel with the backend.
>
> > So, I was wondering what is the approach taken by symfony for this
> > particular use case? Is there any plan on the roadmap for 1.3 or 2.0
> > to provide a unified model layer that will allow developers to use
> > custom data sources?
>
> > Thanks!
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