[Catalyst] Basic Background Question, DBIx::Class

[Jason Galea]

Hi Rob,

from the google cache for
http://wiki.catalystframework.org/wiki/necessarybackgroundknowledge

"Here is where the two schools diverge. The older school (popularized by
the Smalltalk language) holds that the *business* *logic* should go in the
Model. The younger school (popularized by recent web applications) holds
that the *business* *logic* should go in the Controller. Both approaches
work, and each has pros and cons. Which one you choose is more a matter of
personal mindset and preference than anything else: does it suit your
thinking better to have a smart Controller managing a thin database
connection (the Model), or a smart Model that is tracking the state of your
application and telling a thin request handler (the Controller) how to
process requests?"

I've ended up putting business logic in a Catalyst model, but keeping it
separate from the DBIx::Class model, basically building my app as
standalone and hooking it into Catalyst as a model (
http://lecstor.com/catalyst_fat_model.html). It's not perfect though..

If you search the list you should find more than a few related discussions..

cheers,

J



On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Rob Brown <rob at intelcompute.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've recently jumped into Catalyst and DBIx::Class, and after following
> some tutorials, I am left with some controllers and a view which I'm
> completely happy with.
>
> The lib/Schema and lib/Model directories have me a little confused
> however.
>
> I have a single class in lib/Model, inheriting from
> Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Schema with some db connection details.
>
> Then the lib/Schema.pm class and dir, and Result classes for my db
> tables.
>
> I understand what they're all doing, but...
>
> Shouldn't I have classes in lib/Model/ for each of my tables/models?  Is
> this what the Schema/ classes should be doing?
>
> I'm used to creating set classes for each model in my apps, so just
> having the DBIx::Class ones is a little odd right now, with no REAL
> logic in them to model my app logic.
>
> I would have expected some basic wrapper model classes in lib/Model/ for
> each Schema/Result.
>
> Maybe a single class in lib/Model/ is correct, to model the entire DB,
> it just threw me a little.
>
> some feedback/direction would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
>
>
>
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