Re: mock driver
| From: | Alan Knowles | Date: | Thu, 15 May 2003 00:42:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: mock driver | ||
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While the xml thing is a nice idea, it's a pretty poor alternative to using sqlLite, in terms of reducing the amount of work (and barriers) required to make unit tests work with database packages. - just needs someone to write the pear db/mdb driver for it :)
Regards
Alan
Sebastian Roebke wrote:
Hi!there is a flat file db with an sql interface for php .. if we write a driver for it then we would be all set.Basically I find this a quite nice idea, but I have two thoughts on this. The problems I see here: 1) Instead of a db access you would need a directory to write data to anyway, so something has to be configured even with a flat file db only. 2) The flat file db would have to support quite a lot of SQL. By using a flat file db, PEAR packages would depend on the features it provides to fulfill the tests. But, to be fair, I have not been looking yet at what is provided by the mentioned system. Best regards, Sebastian Roebke