[DB-SIG] How to know what to do with parameters...

[Kevin Jacobs]

On Fri, 16 May 2003, Magnus Lyckå wrote:
> I would like to suggest that the DB-API will stipulate
> that the DBinterfaces should check whether an object has
> a method of a certain, standardized name, and use that
> method to extract the stringified value to put in the
> SQL statement, it the object has such a method.

This assumes that objects will only need to know how to encode themselves
for a single known backend, or that all possible backends can rely on a
single encoding.  Both are very bad assumptions.  (Not that most of the rest
of the recent discussion on how to "fix" DB-API is not equally as flawed).

If it were that easy, it would have already been done.  However, it is not
an intractible problem, though it does _very_ quickly escape the scope of
DB-API and deserves a distinct API layer of its own.

-Kevin

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