[Dbix-class] Strange (expected?) inflate_column and update behaviour

[Matt S Trout]

Michele Beltrame wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> In a table schema of mine I have:
> 
> __PACKAGE__->inflate_column('published', {
>     inflate     => sub { time_db2obj(shift) },
>     deflate     => sub { time_obj2db(shift) },
> });
> 
> I noticed that the deflate method is NOT called when I use update() on a
> resultset an pass data like this:
> 
> $c->model('Dbs')->resultset('MyTable')->update(
>     field1     => 'val',
>     field2     => 'val'
>     published  => $datetime_object
> );

This does a direct UPDATE and doesn't obey inflate_column; that's on the 
result class only, not the resultset.

> At least, it seems like thid because "cannot compare a DateTime to a
> scalar" is thrown. The deflate method IS however regularly called if I
> do like this:
> 
> $c->model('Dbs')->resultset('MyTable')->published($datetime_object);
> $c->update();

That shouldn't work at all. Did you paste it wrong?

If you mean update() on an object I believe this is fixed in the latest dev 
release.

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