Writing a database abstraction layer is definitely not something I had in mind when stating ZenMagick On the other hand I really enjoy this sort of work – in fact much more than working on new store features.

So far I have a single interface ZMDatabase that will eventually be used to access the database. Right now there are two implementations and the implementation class is configured via a setting.

The interface is not complete yet, I’ll add stuff as a go through the code and convert database access. Currently there is only ZMManufacturers upgraded to use the new code and it works perfect.

Only worry right now is that Creole may throw Exceptions. In itself that is not a problem – is’s actually a nice change to know whether things have worked or not. However, currently none of the code is the least exception aware.  I probably should change that before going to far down that way to avoid having to redo a lot of changes.

I just fear that by starting that can of worms I’ll end up rewriting most of the current dispatch code in order to properly handle exceptions throughout the request process… Oh, well, one step at a time…