[Dbix-class] Column Metadata

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

Hi,

In InstantCRUD I've migrated from putting the labels (and other
visuals) into the DBIC structures.  It just felt not really clean
having the presentation parts in the database layer.

--
Zbyszek

On 11/2/06, John Napiorkowski <jjn1056 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Right now if I stuff extra things into the column
> metadata info like so:
>
> __PACKAGE__->add_columns(
>   "thumbnail_path",
>   {
>         data_type => "VARCHAR",
>         default_value => "",
>         is_nullable => 0,
>         size => 255,
>         label => "Thumbnail Path",
>         field_type=>"Textfield",
>  },
>
> I can retrieve that via the result_source column info
> method.  My question is do people think me putting my
> metadata here is a bad idea, in the sense that in some
> future revision of DBIx the metadata will have some
> sort of enforcement and won't support my arbitrary key
> values anymore?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> John
>
>
>
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Zbigniew Lukasiak
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