On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:47 PM, fREW Schmidt<fri...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Chisel Wright <chi...@herlpacker.co.uk> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:17:46AM -0500, fREW Schmidt wrote: >> > Oh yeah, I saw that for sure.� I was hoping for some kind of setting >> > that >> > I could set that would convert '' to null in fields that aren't >> > strings.� >> >> Erk! Each to their own. >> >> Where are these empty strings coming from in the first place? Ideally, >> and unsurprisingly, I'd much rather have "undef" for "a field value that >> hasn't been defined". >> >> To me, and presumably others, '' (blank) means "we know what it is, it's >> nothingness". >> >> Can't the incoming data be "fixed" instead of kludging your queries? > > Well that's what I'm doing. I'm fixing it. Iterating over given values and > changing them from blanks to undefs. If you know a way to do that with > javascript (http posts) let me know, but as far as I know it will submit > blanks for blank fields.
Why do you want them to be NULL? As a general rule, unless you have a specific requirement for NULL they're best avoided (see discussion passim). Even when you think you have all the bases covered there's some weird case where they turn out to be a PITA later... Paul _______________________________________________ List: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/DBIx-Class/ Searchable Archive: http://www.grokbase.com/group/dbix-class@lists.scsys.co.uk
