[Catalyst] Re: iterating ResultSet in controller vs. template

[A. Pagaltzis]

Hi John,

* John Goulah <jgoulah at gmail.com> [2007-06-19 19:10]:
> If I do something simple like this:
> 
>     my $myalums  = [ $c->model('MyDB::Alumni')->search({}, { rows => 20 })
> ] ;
> 
> But if I try to iterate this in the controller, I cannot do something like:
> 
>    while (my $alum = $myalums->next) {
>        $c->log->debug("id: ". $alum->alumni_id);
>    }

* John Goulah <jgoulah at gmail.com> [2007-06-19 20:25]:
>    while (my $alum = @{$myalums}->next) {
>        $c->log->debug("id: ". $alum->alumni_id);
>    }
> 
> In this case I get:
> 
> Can't call method "next" without a package or object reference


this is not a problem with DBIx::Class (much less with Catalyst).
Your understanding of Perl data structures is evidently
superficial; you will do yourself a favour to read at least one
of the perlreftut, perllol and perldsc docs.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>