[Catalyst] CatalystX::CRUD

[Matt S Trout]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 09:31:35PM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On 9/23/07, Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:
> > You've never done a "view all posts owned by the selected set of users" link?
> >
> > This sort of thing in DBIC just becomes
> >
> > $posts_rs = $users_rs->search_related('posts');
> >
> > whereas (so far as I'm aware, please do correct me if I'm wrong) it's a bit
> > more work in RDBO.
> 
> I'm not an expert on RDBO, but I believe you would need to call a
> different class (the posts class, not the users) and adjust the
> criteria you pass, e.g. change "last_name => 'Smith'" to
> "user.last_name => 'Smith'".
> 
> Any set of ORM tools is going to have different unique features, and a
> full abstraction would mean giving up all of the unique features.
> However, it looked like Peter was trying to do something at a pretty
> high level where hopefully the differences don't come into play much.

So the answer is "no, I don't have any ideas about this". Sure, fair enough.
You could have said that in one line though, I was only wondering.

I'll wait and see whether Peter does.

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