[Dbix-class] get_inflated_columns and selecting specific columns

Matt S Trout dbix-class at trout.me.uk
Sun Aug 17 18:51:20 BST 2008


On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:26:59AM -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> With search(), you can specify a set of columns to return, e.g.:
>   select => [qw/ item_id name /],
> 
> However, unlike get_columns(), get_inflated_columns() doesn't limit 
> itself to those columns.  Instead, it returns values for all the columns 
> in the table.  Of course, the value will beundef for any columns that 
> weren't actually selected.
> 
> Is this the intended behavior?  It isn't clear to me from the documentation.

Probably not.

Patches welcome.

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