On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:36:57PM +0000, Zefram wrote:
> p p wrote:
> >With DefaultFormatter I can simply do:
>
> Eww, global variable. You can do that in your modules, and so can anyone
> else in theirs, but if you both do it and your modules end up in the
> same process then you'll step on each other's toes.
>
> You really want to find a more convenient way for you to explicitly
> attach a particular formatter to each column that you declare. Such as
> write a wrapper for the DBIC stuff.
FWIW, I do this for my application which uses Moose DateTime attributes all
over the place (for holding information stored to/from a mysql db), so I
don't ever have to explicitly set the formatter, timezone etc:
class_type 'DateTime';
coerce 'DateTime'
=> from 'Str'
=> via {
# check for retarded mysql 4.x null timestamps: this will
# generate a nicer type coercion error than simply parsing directly
return if $_ eq '0000-00-00 00:00:00';
my $dt;
try {
$dt = DateTime::Format::MySQL->parse_datetime($_);
}
catch ($e) {
confess "DateTime coercion failed: $e";
}
$dt->set_formatter('DateTime::Format::MySQL');
$dt->set_time_zone('UTC');
$dt;
};
subtype 'MaybeDateTime' => as 'Maybe[DateTime]';
coerce 'MaybeDateTime'
=> from 'Str'
=> via {
# check for retarded mysql 4.x null timestamps
return if $_ eq '0000-00-00 00:00:00';
my $dt;
try {
$dt = DateTime::Format::MySQL->parse_datetime($_);
}
catch ($e) {
cluck "DateTime coercion failed: $e";
}
$dt->set_formatter('DateTime::Format::MySQL');
$dt->set_time_zone('UTC');
$dt;
};
my @types = qw(
DateTime
MaybeDateTime
);
# create subs in the current namespace for each type constraint.
# e.g. you can call my $val = MyApp::Types::MaybeDateTime->assert_coerce($str);
foreach my $type_name (@types)
{
my $class = __PACKAGE__;
my $short_name = $type_name =~ /^\Q$class\E::(.+)/ ? $1 : $type_name;
Sub::Install::install_sub({
code => sub {
Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::find_type_constraint($type_name)
},
into => $class,
as => $short_name,
});
}
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