[Dbix-class] overriding create [was role of result class? ]

[Matt S Trout]

Richard Jolly wrote:
> I'm trying to override the create() method of a particular class, so
> that it creates two other related objects. But using the
> $schema->resultset('Foo')->create syntax bypasses my overriden method.
> Is that expected?
> 
> If I define new() instead it does get called - but since I'm inserting
> rows with create_related I think it needs to be in create. The method in
> question looks something like:
> 
> sub create {
>   my $row = shift()->next::method(@_);
>   $row->create_related(..);
>   $row
> }

Yep. And as noted in the docs, create() is just a shortcut to ->new(@_)->insert;

So maybe overriding insert would do the trick :)

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