[Catalyst] Restricting access to the model

Matt S Trout dbix-class at trout.me.uk
Tue Jul 4 00:40:09 CEST 2006


Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior wrote:
> On 7/3/06, Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:
>> and C::M::DBIC::Schema gives you a model per table. I'm not sure I see the
>> problem here ...
> 
> From Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Schema docs there's an example which reads:
> 
>   # For resultsets, there's an even quicker shortcut:
>   $c->model('FilmDB::Actor')
>   # is the same as $c->model('FilmDB')->resultset('Actor')
> 
> So, from this example, I concluded that only FilmDB was a proper
> Catalyst model. FilmDB::Actor was only a shortcut, not a real model.
> 
> But I think I was mislead by the docs, then.

That's cos it generates an ACCEPT_CONTEXT on FilmDB::Actor. It's still a real 
class, albeit one auto-generated via compose_namespace.

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