[Dbix-class] quote char works with sorting without breaking too much!

Matt S Trout dbix-class at trout.me.uk
Wed Jun 21 15:03:49 CEST 2006


Jess Robinson wrote:
> Ah, but this has fun with functions, which are currently supported as:
> 
> order_by => [ { 'count' => '*'} ] .. etc
> 
> At the last discussion of this, my end proposal was the following:
> 
>   order by => [ [ 'name', 'asc'], 'lastname', [ { sum => 'age' }, 'desc' ] ]
> 
> That is, the items in order by can be either:
> 1) a plain fieldname, which will just get passed on
> 2) an arraryref of fieldname and order direction
> 3) an arraryref of functionhashref, and order direction
> 4) a function hashref
> 5) a scalar ref that will be passed on blind as before
> 
> This, I hope, won't break current functionality.. or am I missing 
> anything?

how about { -desc => 'colname' } ?

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