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• DBIx::Class (Score:1)

  by ChrisDolan (2855)

  I'm probably over-simplifying your problem, but I think that the solution adopted by DBIx::Class is a nice brain fit. Under Catalyst, I would say something like:

  my $query = $c->model('Entity::Person');
  $query = $query->search({age => ['==', 30]});
  $query = $query->search({mumble...  => ['==', 'Fido']});
  $query = $query->search(undef, {order_by => 'name ASC'});
  my $adam = $query->first;

  where I don't know how to write the "mumble" part off the top of my head, but it's probably acc
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Alias (5735)

    Unfortunately, yes this oversimplifies the problem.
    
    It solves the problem by getting rid of the class tree altogether and using Perl structures.
    
    Here's another example of the sort of stuff I'm doing.
    
# We need a certain type of person
my $query = MyApp::Entity::Person->Fetch;
$query->condition('OptimizedFor', '==', 'fun');
$query->condition(
        MyApp::SQL::Collection->OR(
                MyApp::SQL::Clause->new('Lame', 'is null'),

    • Re:DBIx::Class (Score:1)

      by Alias (5735) on 2007.05.31 2:33 (#55342) Homepage Journal

      Ack, my "less than" condition in the nested structure broke it :(
      
      But you get the point.
      
      

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