[Catalyst] How many models?

[Jamie Neil]

Hi All,

We're in the process of porting an existing CMS/Cart system to Catalyst, 
and trying to work out how to deal with the database modelling. While 
most of the tables will be accessed through a simple DBIx::Class::Schema 
setup, there are a few which have more complex relationships that we 
wish to hide behind custom methods.

We've come to the conclusion that this is best done by creating an 
external module, but we're not sure whether we should create two 
Catalyst models (one using DBIx::Class::Schema and one wrapping our 
external module), or have a single model and access the simple tables 
through the external module too. The first option seems simpler more 
straightforward, but we don't want to end up with multiple database 
connections (there is only one database) if we can help it.

Can anyone offer some advice?

Thanks,

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