[Catalyst] "Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication uses NEXT, which is deprecated."

[Jay Kuri]

Hi Paul,

It's actually pretty easy.  Define a many_to_many relationship in your user to your role data.

Then use that instead of your 'has_many' in your Auth config.  

That's really it.

Jay


On May 11, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote:

> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 18:25, Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com> wrote:
> [snip to the most puzzling stuff]
>> Finally, we have our roles via a join: user <-- user_role --> role. It
>> seems like role_field is expecting a string but it's here getting an
>> integer. Is there anyway of having go further into the role table with
>> that integer key and compare on role.role?
>> 
>> We used to use,
>> __PACKAGE__->config->{authorization}->{dbic} = {
>>  role_class           => 'DBIC_Readonly::Role',
>>  role_field           => 'role',
>>  role_rel             => 'map_user_role',            # DBIx::Class only
>>  user_role_user_field => 'user',
>> };
>> 
>> Now,
>> __PACKAGE__->config->{authentication} = {
>>  default_realm => 'members',
>>  realms => {
>>    members => {
>>      credential => {
>>        class => 'Password',
>>        password_field => 'password',
>>        password_type => 'clear',
>>      },
>>      store => {
>>        class => 'DBIx::Class',
>>        user_model => 'DBIC_Readonly::User',
>>        role_relation => 'map_user_role',
>>        role_field => 'role',
>>      },
>>    },
>>  },
>> };
>> 
>> with, (unchanged),
>> User.pm,
>> __PACKAGE__->has_many(map_user_role => 'IDL::Schema::UserRole' => 'user');
> 
> Anyone have an idea here? Any more info I can provide? I'm assuming
> this isn't a functional regression but I'm at a loss what to do here.
> I could change user_role to have strings instead of an FK to role but
> would rather not as we lose some protection against bad role
> names/data integrity.
> 
> Paul
> 
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