[Catalyst] ways to do stuff and why

[Brian Kirkbride]

Mark Blythe wrote:
> If the controller truly never sees DBIC stuff, does that mean that
> your model logic never returns DBIC objects?  For instance, let's say
> you have a logic method called findBestFit() that's supposed to return
> shoes that fit a given person and activity the best.  Would it return
> a DBIC ResultSet made up of Shoe row objects, or would findBestFit()
> deal with those objects only internally and construct something
> non-DBIC for the return?
> 
> That's a choice I struggled with up front, and I finally decided that
> sticking with DBIC objects made better sense for me than inventing a
> whole new layer simply to abstract them and provide similar but not
> DBIC-specific interfaces.
> 

I'm right there with you - I want to abstract but without reinventing the wheel.