[Dbix-class] Column Metadata

[Matt S Trout]

John Napiorkowski 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?

It was designed for you to do that.

We've got production code all over the place that uses it and I've suggested 
it to a lot of people before now so I think I'd be summarily executed by 
clients and users if I ever let it get broken :)

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