[Catalyst] Is C::M::CDBI::Plain deprecated? (ignore previous post)

[Brian Kirkbride]

Len Jaffe wrote:
> I've trimmed a lot of your post.  I won't address
> every bit individually, but I'm also using
> CDBI::plain.  I have been unable to get CDBI::plain
> and catalyst to recognize my existing CDBI classes, so
> I have all of my methods in my app::M::CDBI classes. 
> I also don't have the code in front of me so I can't
> provide source code now.  But I'd like to correspond,
> eiher on list or off, sicne we iconoclasts are a dying
> breed.
> 
> It's kind of a bummer that the catalyst examples are
> all moving to a new ORM, just as I'm finally
> comfortable with CDBI :-)  I'm also a little concerned
> abotu finding kwalitee hosting that will have support
> for DBIC, but that's an issue for later when the app
> is finished.
> 
> L.
> 

I agree, I'll probably move to DBIC after the app is up and running. That's 
the great thing about MVC, right? :)

In the meantime, the solution does seem to require that Catalyst::Model come
after other base classes in @ISA.  But new() must be Catalyst::Component->new()
and COMPONENT() must be Catalyst::Component->COMPONENT.

I've attached a fairly straightforward solution to the problem.  It's a new
model class Catalyst::Model::Existing.  It provides a completely generic
and safe way to integrate existing model classes into Catalyst without the 
headache I just went through.

Comments/criticism?

- Brian
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