[Dbix-class] RFC: Thoughts on a serialization format for Classes

[Jess Robinson]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, John Napiorkowski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am seriously considering writing a system to create
> DBIx Classes via a configuration file.  Since the
> default for creating these classes are primarily
> package method calls I think this could be pretty
> easy.
>
> So we could replace:
>
> package myapp::Schema::foo
>
> __PACKAGE__->load_components( ... );
> __PACKAGE__table('foo');
>
> (rest of your setup)
>
> With (something like in evil YAML)
>
> Schema:
>  foo:
>    table: foo
>    load_components:
>      - comp1
>      - comp2
>
>

If you didnt insist on your own formatting, you can do this fairly 
trivially already, since SQL::Translator reads/has YAML, XML and various 
other formats.. And someone was writing a backend for ::Schema::Loader 
which would use SQL::Translator.. (hmm, who was that?)

Jess