[Dbix-class] Question about belongs_to

[Jason Kohles]

On 12/30/05, Jon Molin <jon.molin at gmail.com> 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'})
>
> 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?
>
> If I'm understanding the question correctly, I think what you are looking
for is:
__PACKAGE__->belongs_to('author', 'MyApp::DBIC::Author', 'authID');

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