Forum OpenACS Development: Re: ]po[ on top of OpenACS 5.9.0 - acs_object_types_pkg_name_un

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2: Re: ]po[ on top of OpenACS 5.9.0 - acs_object_types_pkg_name_un (response to 1)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 02/07/17 07:56 PM
Good news.

Concerning "OpenACS 5.9 apparently only allows ...": i am not aware, that anything has changed in this regard in OpenACS 5.9.0. The same is in 5.8.0, 5.6.0, 5.2.0, 4.2.0, ... this was not changed over the last 16 years!

Probably, you are misunderstanding the column "package_name". These are not apm-packages, but Oracle-style packages.

See: select object_type, supertype, package_name from acs_object_types ;

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3: Re: ]po[ on top of OpenACS 5.9.0 - acs_object_types_pkg_name_un (response to 2)
Posted by Frank Bergmann on 02/08/17 10:50 AM
Hi!

Yeah, 16 years of bullshit! No excuse 😊
Well, yes, I worked around it. Got a first "installation" working, but I'll announce it on a separate thread.

Thanks!
Frank

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4: Re: ]po[ on top of OpenACS 5.9.0 - acs_object_types_pkg_name_un (response to 3)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 02/08/17 01:56 PM
Normally, the attribute object_type in acs_object_types has the same value as the attribute package_name. For the core packages, just the following cases differ. 

oacs-5-9-1=# select object_type, supertype, package_name  from acs_object_types where object_type <> package_name;
  object_type  | supertype  |    package_name    
---------------+------------+--------------------
 relationship  | acs_object | acs_rel
 user          | person     | acs_user
 group         | party      | acs_group
It means that the the (Oracle) package "acs_rel" defines the object_type "relationship".

How can this hinder you? Probably, the differences are more or less there for legacy reason. In my opinion, it would be better to define the package names after the type and to drop the attribute package_name. But that could be only done by someone developing in an Oracle installation.

If this hinders you, please tell, what the exact problem is.