[Zope-dev] Re: straighting out the SQLAlchemy integration mess

[Martijn Faassen]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> --On 10. April 2008 19:10:49 +0200 Brian Sutherland 
> <brian at vanguardistas.net> wrote:
>> Just adding my few requirements:
>>     - Integration into the component architecture in such a way that I
>>       can specify the db connection parameters in ZCML and that database
>>       reflection still works. I want to be able to get a handle on
>> SQLAlchemy       things by calling getUtility.
> 
> Please *NO* database specific configurations within ZCML. We're running 
> applications in up three or four different environments and I don't want 
> to maintain instance specific configurations within ZCML. Either we pass
> such informations through environment variables or the database 
> connections parameters are read from a configuration within the instance 
> configuration.

As long as it can also be specified in the code, that way people can 
build UIs to set up the connection. Perhaps that's what you mean by a 
"configuration within the instance configuration".

Regards,

Martijn