[Dbix-class] Updating foreign key does not reload related object

Matt S Trout dbix-class at trout.me.uk
Wed Aug 1 11:03:37 GMT 2007


On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:00:03PM +1000, brett gardner wrote:
> I have a row object which has a field "venue_id" which is a foreign key 
> used in a belongs_to relationship "venue".
> 
> When I do the following.
> 
>    $old_venue = $event->venue;
>    $event->venue_id($new_id);
>    $event->update;
>    $new_venue = $event->venue;
> 
> "$new_venue" is not the venue with primary key "$new_id", it is the same 
> row as "$old_venue".
> 
> Is this meant to update automatically or is this a feature not yet 
> implemented?

$obj->venue($new_venue);

will do the right thing. Don't bypass the abstraction if you want to use
the abstraction later :)

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