Re: PEAR::DB, backends and assertExtension

Markus Fischer wrote: > > In IRC someone pointed out that the error handling for database > backends, which aren't available on the system, are not very > sufficient. > > A few backends use assertExtension to detect whethere the module > is available or not. But it doesn't return an Error object but > only returns false which is not handled in the context (mysql) > > Some don't use assertExtension and fail when calling a > non-existing connect function (msql) > > Some prepend the connect function call with '@' and the > application then exits silently (mssql). > > Is someone working on this? > > If not, I can do it. My proposal would be to always return an > pear error object then indicating that the backend is not > availabble (but it should *not* 'DB_ERROR_NOT_FOUND' because this > is already used the backend.php file is not available). I would > suggest return a new error DB_ERROR_BACKEBD_NOT_FOUND. > > I hope I just haven't overseen an important thing :-) No you haven't overseen anything, so feel free to make it suff^H^H^H^Hconsistent :-) - Stig