[html-formfu] dbic config + backwards compatibility cycles

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

On Feb 8, 2008 3:26 PM, Carl Franks <fireartist at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is just a heads-up that I'm having to make some changes to how
> FormFu Model backends are handled, to ensure we can support
> multiple-models in the future - as the initial implementation of
> models was a bit of a rush-job.
>
> Unfortunately, this means any 'db' settings in our config files /
> element setup are going to have to be changed.
>
> However - I'm making sure that the old config style will remain
> working for at least a few more cpan releases, to ensure nobody's apps
> break immediately.
>
> * This is going to be our policy from now on: if anything has to be
> changed, make every effort possible to provide a backwards compatible
> method for several release-cycles, which issues a 'deprecated'
> warning. *
>
> So, to summarize:
> - Beware that some things will be changing, but nothing will immediately break.
> - If you're creating any new forms that use HTML-FormFu-Model-DBIC,
> you may be better off keeping track of svn trunk, so you can use the
> new style config immediately, and hopefully not have to change
> anything later.

I've had a quick look at the tests - I've spotted that:

model_config:
      DBIC:
        accessor: fullname

model_config:
      DBIC:
        accessor: fullname

Looks a lot more logical to me now :)

Are there any other changes?

Cheers,
Zbigniew