[Dbix-class] InflateColumn::DateTime - how to use it?

[RA Jones]

Sigh. I thought this one was going to be easy. Convert MySQL's native 
date format (yyyy-m-d) to EU-style (dd-mm-yyyy):

In Schema::Request
__PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/PK::Auto Core InflateColumn::DateTime/);
__PACKAGE__->add_columns( qw/id some_more_columns/ );
__PACKAGE__->add_columns( date => { data_type => 'date' } );

In controller:

while ( my $hits = $rs->next ) {
   push @hits, [
    $hits->date, # OK
    $hits->date->year, # not OK:

"Can't call method "year" without a package or object reference at ... "

Presumably I've missed something not documented in the POD?

On reflection though, maybe InflateColumn is not the correct method for 
what I really want - to globally reformat date fields to EU format.
--
Richard Jones
Leeds, UK

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