Matt S Trout wrote:
> John Napiorkowski wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Right now if I stuff extra things into the column
>> metadata info like so:
>>
>> __PACKAGE__->add_columns(
>> "thumbnail_path",
>> {
>> data_type => "VARCHAR", default_value => "",
>> is_nullable => 0, size => 255,
>> label => "Thumbnail Path",
>> field_type=>"Textfield",
>> },
>>
>> I can retrieve that via the result_source column info
>> method. My question is do people think me putting my
>> metadata here is a bad idea, in the sense that in some
>> future revision of DBIx the metadata will have some
>> sort of enforcement and won't support my arbitrary key
>> values anymore?
>
> It was designed for you to do that.
>
> We've got production code all over the place that uses it and I've
> suggested it to a lot of people before now so I think I'd be summarily
> executed by clients and users if I ever let it get broken :)
> recommended how... meta info describing what the column/data is... or meta info about how to use the column in presentation?
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