[Dbix-class] using DBIx::Class::CDBICompat

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:42:36PM -0400, John Goulah wrote:
> >A class that uses base DBIx::Class::ResultSet and then just do
> >
> >__PACKAGE__->resultset_class('My::ResultSet::Class');
> >
> >in any table class that needs it. ResultSetManager is just a convenience
> >syntax to that, and causes enough problems in more complex cases there's
> >serious consideration being given to deprecating it in favour of saner
> >syntax.
> 
> 
> 
> That works fine, but I would rather scope the package under myDB rather than
> MyApp, but when I put the ResultSet dir under myDB directory I get "Cannot
> load schema class" errors (under MyApp its fine).  I assume its trying to
> load this class as a table class.  Is there any way around this?  If not
> where is the recommended place to put these?   It seems best to keep it
> close to the DB classes, but I'm not sure Catalyst will let me.

That's because you've called load_classes with no arguments, see the ::Schema
docs.

What I'd tend to do is have 'MyApp::Schema::Foo' and then
'MyApp::ResultSet::Foo' - putting the DB in 'MyDB' is awful design, your
project should only use *one* top-level namespace.

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