[Catalyst] How to access DBIC schema from class method?

[will at serensoft.com]

Not sure why you'd have a create-self method inside the instance itself.
Usually our paradigm is something like

my $user =3D $c->model('MyApp::User')->find_or_new( { id =3D> $id } );
$user->password( $newpass );
$user->somefield( $newval );
#etc
$user->update;


On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:57 PM, <seasprocket at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm confused about the "right" way to get a schema instance from within a
> class method. If I've already got a resultset or resultsource instance, i=
t's
> easy. But from a class method within my model? Do I create a new connecti=
on
> every time I need one, ie. MyApp::Schema->connect()?
>
> To be specific:
>
> package MyApp::Schema::Result::User;
> use base 'DBIx::Class::Core';
> ...
>
> sub create_user {
>     my ($class, $params) =3D @_;
>     # Want to call $user_rs->create() here after I've validated data.
>     # my $schema =3D MyApp::Schema->connect()?
> }
>
> My suspicion is that this should be an instance method, bc it represents
> the table, not a user object. And the way to get an instance is to call
> $rs->result_source on a result set. But when I call:
>       $c->model('DB::User')->result_source->create_user($params) it fails
> with the msg:
>
> Can't locate object method "create_user" via package
> "DBIx::Class::ResultSource::Table"
>
>
>
>
>
>
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