[Dbix-class] stupid ?: how to create new objects & save them?

[Mark Hedges]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Justin Guenther wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 
> > It isn't obvious to me why I can't do this:
> > 
> >   my $newsletter = $customer->newsletter;
> >   my $customer_email = $customer->customer_email;
> > 
> >   if (!$newsletter) {
> >       $newsletter = C::Newsletter->new({ 
> >           email  => $customer_email 
> >       });
> >       warn "newsletter is a '$newsletter'\n";
> >       # says it's a C::Newsletter
> >   }
> >   $newsletter->weekly(1);
> >   $customer->newsletter( $newsletter );
> >   $newsletter->update;
> >   $customer->update;
> > 
> > I get this error:
> > 
> >   DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::update(): Not in database at 
> > <myscript> line 51
> > 
> > What?
> > 
> > How am I supposed to create objects and save them?  I poured 
> > through the manual again, but there's nothing about what 
> > seems like a basic function.
> 
> $newsletter = C::Newsletter->create({ email => $customer_email })
> 
> new() only creates the object in memory. The next function after new() in
> Row.pm is insert(), you just need to look harder :)
> 
> In order to store it in the database, you need to call ->insert() or create
> the object with create() instead of new() (create() is just a shortcut for
> new()->insert()).

Oh, Row.pm.  Mentioned on one line in the last line of the
last DBIx::Class::Manual::* page.  :-)

  Can't locate object method "create" via package "C::Newsletter" 
  at <myscript> line 35.

The man page for DBIx::Class::Row does not list a create() method.
This is version 0.06000.

I use DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader to create the namespace and 
there is no actual C::Newsletter package because it's so simple, 
it doesn't need any methods.

However if I do 'new' and then 'insert' it works fine.  Thanks!

Mark