[Dbix-class] Problem with using InflateColumn::DateTime

[Matt S Trout]

J Cook wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to reformat a date field from a MySQL table - wanting to go 
> from yyyy-mm-dd to mm/dd/yyyy when displayed on a webpage. So, following 
> some advice I did the following:
> 
> package DB::Main::Book;
> 
> use base qw/DBIx::Class/;
> 
> # Load required DBIC stuff
> __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/PK::Auto Core InflateColumn::DateTime/);
> # Set the table name
> __PACKAGE__->table('books');
> # Set columns in table
> __PACKAGE__->add_columns(date => { data_type => 'date' });
> __PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/id book author date/);
> # # Set the primary key for the table
> __PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('id');
> 
> Next in my code(Mason page):
> <% $quote->depart_date->mdy() %> depart date<br>
> 
> I get the following result:
> 
> 	Can't call method "mdy" without a package or object reference at
> 
> 
> It works fine without the '->mdy()' but of course doesn't format the 
> date as wished for.
> 
> I followed the doc and I've tried several variations but this looks like 
> it should work according to how the doc looks.
> 
> Any suggestions?

__PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/PK::Auto Core InflateColumn::DateTime/);

should be

__PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/InflateColumn::DateTime Core/);

PK::Auto is in Core as of 0.07, but left-most loaded component is most 
significant so without putting InflateColumn::DateTime to the left of Core its 
overrides won't be seen.

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