[Catalyst] Catalyst::Model::CDBI

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

Hi

On 10/6/05, Jesper Krogh <jesper at krogh.cc> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone.
>
> Is it nessesary to code the Class::DBI interfaces by hand if I need to use
> the "lazy" evaulation of attributes?
>
> I have a coulple of BYTEA (postgresql's BLOB's) in the database, that is
> rarely used, so these should only be fetched from the database when
> explicitly asked for.
>

You just add a line like:

__PACKAGE__->columns(Essential => qw/id nick name cdate/);

to your model package, and then on default only the listed columns
will be loaded from the database.
Please read the 'LAZY POPULATION' part of CDBI documentation for
further explanations.

Zbyszek