NAME

internals - Some internal information about the WE_Framework

DESCRIPTION

ObjDB

The object metadata database is implemented as an MLDBM database. Therefore, the contents of the database can either be looked in with the show_db program or with the dump script (the latter is included with WE_Framework).

The objects in the object database are array references of four elements:

• The first element contains a hash reference to the attributes of the object. The current object is the current work version (if there are multiple versions).

• The second element contains an array reference to the IDs of the children of this object. Of course, only folder objects can have children.

• The third element contains an array reference to the IDs of the parents of this object. Multiple parents are possible; the first parent ID is handled as the "main" parent (e.g. as the default parent if no one is specified in methods like move).

  The root object should not have any parents. Also, version objects are stored as normal objects in the database, but have no parents.

• The fourth element contains an array reference to the IDs of the versions of this object.

Here's an example:

    [ {'Title' => 'A Folder',
       'Id'    => '26', ...
      },   # object
      [],  # children (here: no children)
      [4], # parents
      []   # versions (here: no versions)
    ]

There are two special keys in the database:

_root_object

The value is the ID of the root object of the database (usually a WE::Obj::Site or WE::Obj::Sites).

_next_id

The value is the next free ID for new objects.

ContentDB

The current implementation of the content database is simply files in a filesystem. The file names are constructed of the corresponfing object id and the right content-type extension. If there is no content-type, then the extension ".bin" is used. For example, the object with the id 12 and the content-type text/html is "12.html".

AUTHOR

Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de>

SEE ALSO

WE::DB(3).