[Dbix-class] Question about belongs_to

[Matt S Trout]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:25:16PM +0100, Jon Molin wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I tried the "Many-to-many relationships" example from the cookbok. It works
> fine but I can't figure out how to name the belongs_to relation other than
> the name of the column. That is:
> 
> __PACKAGE__->belongs_to('authID' => 'MyApp::DBIC::Author');
> 
> If I want to access the author by doing $obj->author, rather than
> $obj->authID. I've tried:
> __PACKAGE__->belongs_to ('author' => 'MyApp::DBIC::Author', undef,
> 'authID');# (have also tried with {'foreign.authID' => 'self.authID'})

Drop that undef - it's conditional *then* attrs; you give undef if you want
the automatic conditional but to customise the attrs.
 
> But that just gives me a complaint saying there is no author method in
> MyApp::DBIC::Book2Author. This confuses me as there is no problem naming
> has_many relations. Is it not possible or do I call the belongs_to method
> completely wrong?

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