I've created a custom Metadata class to use with RDBO::Loader so I can have an init_column_name_to_method_name_mapper method to change CamelCase to underscore_separated and strip table names from the front of column names.
This worked well but now my method names are not the same as my column names so I think that I need to include some POD in the generated classes. The module_postamble option to RDBO::Loader comes in handy. I pass it a sub that looks like this: sub make_pod { my $meta = shift; my $pod; my $tt = Template->new(); $tt->process('pod.tt', {meta => $meta, db => $db}, \$pod) or die $tt->error; return $pod; } Now I'm cooking! I have access to the Metadata object for each class and my Rose::DB object in a Template Toolkit template. I can get all of the data I need for the primary keys: =head1 Primary Keys [% IF meta.primary_key_column_names.list.size > 1 %] This table has a composite primary key consisting of: [% END %] =over 4 [% FOREACH pk IN meta.primary_key_columns %] =item B<[% pk.name %]> ( [% meta.table %].[% pk.column %] ) [% END %] =back This also works well for the columns but it starts to fall down when I hit foreign keys and relationships. Information about the table that they point to doesn't appear to be readily available. I have read the documentation for RDBO::Metadata, RDBO::Metadata::ForeignKey, RDBO::Metadata::Relationship, RDBO::Metadata::Relationship::OneToOne, RDBO::Metadata::Relationship::OneToMany. I can get the columns from both tables but not the table name. Previously when generating forms from table definitions I've gotten around this by actually loading the FK class. I can't in this case because the class hasn't been generated yet. What docs did I miss and what approach should I take here? Thanks, Clayton -- Clayton Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Rose-db-object mailing list Rose-db-object@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rose-db-object