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by stickfigure 603 days ago
> copy query results to structs

Congratulations, you've invented an ORM.
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wtetzner 595 days ago
This is clearly not what anyone means when they say they don't want an ORM.

An ORM library maps an entire relational database to a graph of objects, with the intention of abstracting away the relational database. Copying query results to structs doesn't actually do any of that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational_ma...

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threeseed 603 days ago
Majority of ORMs really are nothing more than this.

But then it's nice to have something that generates optimised, database-specific SQL, can handle date/number conversion, supports many-many relationships, converting BLOB to binary streams etc.

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ursuscamp 603 days ago
That’s 1% of an ORM.
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stickfigure 602 days ago
It's at least 30% of most ORMs. And if your homebrew ORM actually gets wide use, it'll grow from there.

Source: Wrote an ORM that other people actually use. Still adding features, twelve years later.

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