[Catalyst] Re: difficulty in assigning an array to a stash

[Matt S Trout]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:48:22PM +0530, jagdish eashwar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for all the responses. I must admit that I never realised
> that what I was getting was not the last value but the number of
> elements in the array. Anyway, in the course of my experimentation, I
> did make some half hearted attempts with '$c->stash->{myoptions} =
> \@options;' yesterday, but instead of the options, I was getting a
> list of 'myleave::Model::myleavedb::txn_mdl=HASH(some_number) in the
> tt2 template. When I tried again today after your replies, I got the
> same result. Here is my code:
> 
> sub cancel : Local {
> 	my ($self,$c) = @_;
> 	my @options = $c->model('myleavedb::txn_mdl')->search({emp_no =>
> $c->user->emp_no},{columns => [qw/lv_id/]});
> 	$c->stash->{myoptions} = \@options;
> 	$c->stash->{template} = 'leavedata/cancel2_frm.tt2';
> 	}

Which is stashing an array of DBIC txn_mdl objects.
 
> Then I added a foreach loop as under and I got the expected results in
> the tt2 template. I also had to declare @new_options at the top.
> 
> sub cancel : Local {
> 	my ($self,$c, at new_options) = @_;
> 	my @options = $c->model('myleavedb::txn_mdl')->search({emp_no =>
> $c->user->emp_no},{columns => [qw/lv_id/]});
> 	foreach my $option(@options) {
> 	push (@new_options,$option->lv_id)
> 	}
> 	$c->stash->{myoptions} = \@new_options;
> 	$c->stash->{template} = 'leavedata/cancel2_frm.tt2';
> 	}
> 
> I don't understand in what way @options and @new_options are different
> from each other, but in a bumbling manner I have made the code work.
> What is the preferred way of writing this bit of code?

Erm, maybe if you showed us the DBIC classes?

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