Hello Chris,
I am getting closer but ...
> > > Sure. What I prefer to do is to allow for a (cacheable) lookup on the
> > > basis of some criteria, either:
> > > 1. Function name or
> > > 2. Function name and first argument type
> > >
> > > This assumes that whichever discovery criteria you are using leads to
> > > uniquely identifying a function.
> > >
> > > Then from the argument list, I know the names and types of the arguments,
> > > and the service locator can map them in. This means:
> > >
> > > 1. You can expose an API which calls arguments by name rather than just
> > > position, and
> > > 2. You can add arguments of different types without breaking things as
> > > long as it is agreed that unknown arguments are passed in as NULL.
>
> Ok. Two ways of doing this based on different discovery criteria.. The
> first would be:
>
> CREATE FUNCTION person_save(in_id int, in_first_name text, in_last_name
> text, in_date_of_birth date)
> RETURNS person LANGUAGE ... as $$ ... $$;
>
> Then you have a service locator
Which is what running where ?
> that says
How ?
Thanks,
Karsten
> "I have a person object and want to call person_save." It then looks up the function argument names and
> calls it something like this:
>
> SELECT * FROM person_save(?, ?, ?, ?)
>
> with parameters
> $object->id, $object->first_name, $object->last_name, $object->date_of_birth
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