[Dbix-class] ISA Relationship

[Matt S Trout]

Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 14:01 +0100, Sherwin D'Souza wrote:
>> Is there relationships similar to Class::DBI::Relationship::IsA in
>> DBIx, such that
>>
>>   e.g.  Table: Window  columns (window_id title keywords) 
>>                    CircleWindow   columns (window_id radius
>> border_width)
>>
>>           $circlewindow->radius; 
>>           $circlewindow->title; 
>>           $circlewindow->keywords;
>>
> 
> You could do

	CircleWindow->belongs_to(window_id => 'Window', undef, { proxy => [ qw/title 
keywords/ ] });

would add the title and keyword methods for you as well.

> 
> which would lead to
>           $circlewindow->radius; 
>           $circlewindow->window_id->title; 
>           $circlewindow->window_id->keywords;
> 
> You could add methods to CircleWindow to pass title/keywords straight
> through.
> 
> See
> 	DBIx::Class::Relationship
> 	DBIx::Class::Relationship::Base
> and the manual.
> 
> 	Nigel.
> 


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