Anorm

[Jeff Shutt]

Does anyone have enough experience with Anorm that they would feel comfortable enough presenting at our next meeting? If so, please let me know.

[Tim Harper]

I haven't used Anorm, but I know enough to say I mostly disagree with this conclusion:

A type safe DSL to generate SQL is a mistake

Some argue that a type safe DSL is better since all your queries are checked by the compiler. Unfortunately the compiler checks your queries based on a meta-model definition that you often write yourself by ‘mapping’ your data structure to the database schema.

There are no guarantees that this meta-model is correct. Even if the compiler says that your code and your queries are correctly typed, it can still miserably fail at runtime because of a mismatch in your actual database definition.

In practice, the type-safe DSL of slick has served us extremely well, and we have yet to experience a single issue in production from having the meta-model out-of-sync with the database... but YMMV.

:)

Pretty cool library, otherwise.

On Aug 13, 2014, at 13:57, Jeff Shutt <shu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone have enough experience with Anorm that they would feel comfortable enough presenting at our next meeting? If so, please let me know.

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[Matthew Barlocker]

I can do that. I have a fair amount of experience with Anorm at Lucid Software. I will be presenting with Mark Siebert, a software engineer at Lucid.

To confirm day/time: Wed Sep 3 5:30pm @ OC Tanner?

Let me know if this works for you.

[Kevin Edwards]

Mathew, 

Yes on date and time. It is at OC Tanner but not at the main building. It's at a satellite building just north of the main building. They're in the same parking lot. The address is 1865 S. Main St. Suite 200, SLC, 84115. 

Thanks,

Kevin

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[Matthew Barlocker]

Here are my slides from the presentation.