Re: [fw-db] find() returns rowset

I was under the impression we have Zend_Db_Table_Rowset because it
implements
* SeekableIterator (internal interface) and
* Countable (internal interface)

Thanks,

Adam

On Aug 20, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Julien Huang wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I saw that the issue has been set to Fixed by always returning a
> Zend_Db_Table_Rowset.
>
> It may be too late, but I thinks that's counter-intuitive to do:
> $table->find(42)->current();
>
> To me, the issue is simple :
> - if the argument is an array, find() returns a Zend_Db_Table_Rowset
> - if the argument is scalar, find() returns a Zend_Db_Table_Row or
> false if no result
>
> And if we still want to improve: why do we have Zend_Db_Table_Rowset ?
> It seems overkill to me (another layer/stack on top of a PHP's native
> type), and doesn't embrace the KISS principle of PHP's array :
> $table->find(42); # return Zend_Db_Table_Row for ID = 42
> $table->find(array(7, 17)); # returns an array for Zend_Db_Table_Row
> objects with IDs in (7, 17)
> $table->find(array(42)); # returns an array for the Zend_Db_Table_Row
> object with ID = 1
>
> I haven't followed the design/development process of the Zend_Db_Table
> component at the beginning, so perhaps I've missed something...
>
> In fact, I don't underdstand very wall some API designs choices in
> Zend_Db_Table.
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2007 at 13:53, Joó Ádám <ceriak@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just wonder why Zend_Db_Table's find() returns a rowset if I query
>> against the table specifying only one primary key. I think, this is
>> the most often use case of the method, and then calling current() on
>> the rowset is so awkward...
>> I found this issue: http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-21
>> so I
>> see, that this more natural behaviour was the original.
>> To solve the problem described in the above issue and to have an
>> elegant way to retrieve exactly one row, I suggest to use two
>> different methods, like find() and findMany() or something like
>> these...
>>
>>
>> Ádám
>>
>
>
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