[Catalyst] accessing ResultSet function from a related object

[Ash Berlin]

John Goulah wrote:
> I am having some trouble in both controller and template code accessing 
> resultset functions off of chained/related objects (because from what 
> I'm seeing they are not ResultSets but of the type 
> MyApp::Model::MyAppDB::Tablename). 
> 
> For example I can create a ResultSet object directly like:
>     my $owner = $c->model('MyDB::User')->search({ user_id => $owner_id } );
> 
> and then I can do for example:
> 
>     $owner->some_result_set_method()
> 
> but I can't do this if I want to chain off another object, such as:
> 
>     #not ok
>     my $owner_id = 
> $photo_details_rs->first()->owner->some_result_set_method();    
> 
> but...
> 
>     #this is fine, just accessing a field
>     my $owner_id = $photo_details_rs->first()->owner->user_id;   
> 
> and if I have some relation such as 'primary_photo' defined, then in my 
> template this is also ok on this model type object:
> 
>        comment.user.primary_photo.asset.url
> 
> but if I wanted to call a method defined in my ResultSet, its not working:
> 
>     comment.user.some_result_set_method
>    
> 
> I understand this is because comment.user is of type Model, but it seems 
> there would be some way to call these functions since in this case I 
> need to get at the user object from each comment since thats whats being 
> iterated-
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 

Wrong list entirely. You are asking what appears to be a DBIx::Class 
question: http://lists.rawmode.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class