[Dbix-class] using HasMany with object references

[Matt S Trout]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 07:04:41PM -0600, Justin Guenther wrote:
> I'm trying to use DBIx::Class to store some existing classes in a database.
> I think I have all my relationships set up correctly, and I ran into an
> issue with HasMany's add_to_* methods. It is expecting a hashref of values
> to create the new object, but the way my existing classes are set up it
> would be much easier to simply pass it an already-created object reference.
> Is there a way to do this?

Assuming the other side has a belongs_to set up, just calling

$foo_obj->belongs_to_rel($obj_which_has_many_foo);

should do the trick.

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