A thought for Model - read/write connections:
Maybe the Model
$DBGroup property could accept an array as:
PHP Code:
protected $DBGroup = [
'read' => 'slave',
'write' => 'master'
];
And a new method like
getConnection($type) to return the
$db.
The
builder() method could have a second param
$type.
Then run the SELECTs, UPDATEs, etc according with the connection type.
That was definitely something that was in my mental roadmap, I just hadn't had an opportunity to get there yet. I think failover is currently not implemented either.
It would be nice to have the system automatically give the builder the right connection. I believe there's a isWriteType() method already though that may be too late in the process for it to work for this.
I would happily accept a PR for this!
Yes. I found the isWriteType() in the \CodeIgniter\Database\Query class and also has one @todo in the \CodeIgniter\Database\BaseConnection::getConnection().
My thought is that the BaseConnection is not the place to decide if is a write or read connection because it uses a Database group. And the connection type should be based by group, because are required optimizations in the database according to the type. The failover is ok there.
So I came to the conclusion that Model would be the best place to decide which group to use. If someone wants to read/write outside the Model, just use the necessary group.
No?