[Dbix-class] column accessor namespace

[Matt S Trout]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:47:01PM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> I'm looking at moving from CDBI to DBIC for a variety of reasons.
> 
> One of the problems I have with CDBI is that it puts the column accessor 
> methods into the same namespace as its own class methods and 
> plugin-sourced methods. This combined with Perl's inability to 
> distinguish a class call from an instance call (except by adding code at 
> the start of every method) means that there can be conflicts between 
> column accessors and predefined methods. For example, my column 
> accessors called 'sequence' and 'primary' both caused problems.
> 
> So I was wondering what DBIC does about this issue. From a quick scan of 
> the schemaintro doc, it looks like it has the same flaw. And a different 
> set of predefined methods to conflict with :) For example, I really do 
> have an accessor called 'belongs_to' :(

So don't try and call the relationship helper of that name :)

Unless you override ->inflate_result or ->result_source, the vast majority of
the object stuff should be happy enough ...

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