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[plt-scheme] Resources in the transformer environment

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 26 20:13:22 EDT 2006		 
At Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:41:16 -0400, "Jon Zeppieri" wrote:
> You're right; I could easily do this
> with a separate program.  I'd prefer not to, since I'd rather not have
> to run this program after every schema change,

I agree. That makes sense when you consider the database to be part of
the code. It's unusual that the code is only available via an SQL
connection, but it's a consistent view. (Just as compiling normally
needs the code for libraries, your program needs the SQL database to be
available at compile time.)

> (require-for-syntax (lib "mysql.ss" "mysql"))
> (begin-for-syntax (current-connection (connect "host.domain.foo" 3306
> "my_username" "my_password" "my_schema")))
> 
> (require (lib "mysql.ss" "mysql"))
> (require (lib "dbo.ss" "dbo"))
> 
> (dynamic-wind
>  (lambda ()
>    (current-connection ()connect "host.domain.foo" 3306 "my_username"
> "my_password" "my_schema"))
>  (lambda ()
>    (define project%
>      (dbo-class* "project" object% ()
>                  (super-new)))
> 
>    (define o (make-object project%))
>    (define ps (send o find #:all))
>    (display ps))
>  (lambda ()
>    (close (current-connection))))
> 
> (begin-for-syntax (close (current-connection)))
> 
> ===========================
> 
> The above code works fine, but I'd like to use the dbo classes in web
> servlets, where I would be a lot more concerned about the lifetime of
> database connections.  That final (begin-for-syntax) in the above
> example doesn't seem to belong anywhere in a servlet module.

FWIW, that wouldn't work in a module. The expansion of the arguments to
`dynamic-wind' would be delayed until all the top-level forms have been
processed, which means that the connection would be closed by the time
you try to expand `dbo-class*'.


Would it make sense to have a form like

 (with-database
  "host.domain.foo" 3306 "my_username" "my_password" "my_schema"
  <body>)

that opened the database both a compile time and at run time? The macro
might be implemented as mostly

  (dynamic-wind
   (lambda () <...open the database...>)
   (lambda () ... (local-expand <body> ...) ...)
   (lambda () <...close the database...>))

but the expansion of <body> would also be wrapped with a similar
`dynamic-wind' to perform the same DB open and close.


Matthew
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