[Catalyst] Starting development

[Sebastian Willert]

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 13:33 -0500, Peter Karman wrote:
> 
> Guillermo Roditi scribbled on 4/27/06 12:13 PM:
> 
> > I have never used Class:DBI or DBIx or anything besides plain DBI 
> > because of the nature of the things I develop. Most of the queries are 
> > very very complicated and are easier done in plain SQL.
>
> Not using an ORM leaves out the M from the MVC (Model, View, Controller) 
> framework that Catalyst uses, which leaves you View and Controller. 
> Those two are where all the fun stuff happens anyway. :)

Not at all. You can use model classes for almost any information
retrieval purpose. I even use it for static (or almost static) data,
maybe just because it feels right to do so. Take a look at the example 
snipplet I've attached below: this is a model that just returns an array
of hash refs that have been blessed into the class itself (similar to
the way Class::DBI retrieves objects, just for consistency).

Another example where Catalyst just steps out of the way when you don't
need it.

Cheers,
  Sebastian

---

package XXX::Model::Publications;

use strict;
use warnings;
use base 'Catalyst::Model';

__PACKAGE__->mk_accessors( qw(pdf_file title topics) );

sub retrieve_all {
  my $class = shift;
  return [ map{ bless( $_, $class ) } (
	 {
		pdf_file => 'bg 12 papst 04-05.pdf',
		title => 'Papstbeilage 04/05',
		topics => [
		  'Karneval in Rom',
		  'Das Spiel zum Papst',
		]
	 },
	 {
		[...]
	 }
  )];

1;