Bill Moseley wrote:
Ok, get ready for a bunch of beginner questions...
What's the recommended was to setup a common base class for all the
result sources (table classes)? A base class where I can put methods
that can be called on any table object.
Should I have each class inherit from a base class and then have that
base class inherit from DBIx::Class? Or specify both DBIx::Class and
my base class in 'use base'?
I assume I can't use my base schema class (where I call load_classes)
as my base class as is done with CDBI. Although that would seem a
natural place.
I looked at compose_namespace(), but I'm not clear from the docs if
that's what I need.
With CDBI I got tired or typing the same things in my table classes --
plus table classes were useful in more than on project, so I set them
up so I didn't type the namespace more than once.
So instead of:
package My::App::Foo::Album;
use base 'My::App::Foo';
__PACKAGE->table( 'album' );
__PACKAGE->has_many( tracks => 'My::App::Foo::Track' );
I just wrote:
package My::App::Foo::Album;
__PACKAGE__->table( 'album' );
__PACKAGE__->has_many( tracks => 'Track' );
Where my load_classes would setup the inheritance before loading the
class, and relationship setup assumed the base class (a "+" prefix on
a class would say to not prefix it automatically).
The way I do things is;
package YourPreferences::Base::Schema::Tests::Result;
use strict;
use warnings;
use base 'DBIx::Class';
__PACKAGE__->load_components('Core');
sub table {
my $self = shift;
$self->next::method(@_);
# stuff done for all classes
# e.g.
# $self->resultset_class('My::ResultSet');
}
1;
package YourPreferences::Schema::Tests::Foo::Result;
use strict;
use warnings;
use base 'YourPreferences::Base::Schema::Tests::Result';
__PACKAGE__->table('tests_foo_results');
# continue as normal
HTH
Ash
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