[Catalyst] recommendation

[Kieren Diment]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 07:31:09PM +0200, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
>  Especially for a beginner, but not only, the most simple way of creating the 
>  DBIC classes for a Catalyst app is to use the DBIC::Schema helper.

I tend to prefer using DBIC::Schema::Loader directly.  Here's an example:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader qw/ make_schema_at /;

make_schema_at("Zotero::Meta",
               {
                   components => ['InflateColumn::DateTime'],
                   debug => 1,
                   relationships => 1,
                   dump_directory => './lib' ,
               },
               ["dbi:SQLite:dbname=db/meta.db", "",""]);

But the BEGIN block advice is also sound.  As far as using
EncodedColumn goes, I'd recommend having a look at
Catalyst::Helper::AuthDBIC for an example of how to achieve this with
Schema::Loader generated classes (although it doesn't use the BEGIN
trick because I didn't know about it).

> 
>  I've seen that there are many components of DBIx::Class that can't be used 
>  if using this helper, because they should be loaded before Core or they 
>  require changing the part of the class that can't be modified.
> 
>  Which is the recommended way for creating a complex app that needs using 
>  those components?
>  After we change something in the structure of some database tables, the 
>  single way of updating the DBIC classes is to make the update manually?
>  Or it is recommended to avoid using components which are not compatible with 
>  the Catalyst helper?
> 
>  Thanks.
> 
>  Octavian
> 
> 
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