[Catalyst] Some guidance needed please

[Ash Berlin]

Simon Wilcox wrote:
> Matt S Trout wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 03:14:58PM +0100, Ian Docherty wrote:
>>> Almost, if I do my $used_password = 
>>> $c->model('DBIC::UsedPassword')->result_class->create_limited();
>>>
>>> it works. So that should do for now, thanks Simon and Will for your help ;)
>> No. Don't do that.
>>
>> Really don't.
>>
>> It's utterly broken.
> 
> Thanks. I'm not as familiar with the interaction of DBIx::Class and 
> Catalyst::Model::* as you are (obviously, I didn't write 'em :) but from 
> here:
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/~ash/DBIx-Class-0.08007/lib/DBIx/Class/ResultSet.pm#result_class
> 
> I find:
> 
> result_class
> 
>      Arguments: $result_class?
>      Return Value: $result_class
> 
>      An accessor for the class to use when creating row objects. 
> Defaults
>      to result_source->result_class - which in most cases is the name of
>      the "table" class.
> 
> This seems to be the right behaviour to me. Can you summarise why it is 
> not ?
> 
> Yet over here:
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/~blblack/Catalyst-Model-DBIC-Schema-0.20/lib/Catalyst/Model/DBIC/Schema.pm
> 
> I find:
> 
> class
> 
>      Shortcut for ->schema->class
> 
> 
> So would the original be better written as:
> 
> $c->model('DBIC::UsedPassword')->class->create_limited(); # ?
> 

Wouldn't it just be nicer if you could do:

$c->model('DBIC::UsedPassword')->create

Create a new class that inherits from DBIx::Class::ResultSet. then do

__PACKAGE__->resultset_class('...::ResultSet::UsedPassword');

In your source class.

Nicer, no?