[Dbix-class] Adding columns 'on the fly'

Matt S Trout dbix-class at trout.me.uk
Sun Mar 9 19:31:05 GMT 2008


On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 08:37:17AM -0500, Dan Richman wrote:
> Is it possible to select columns without actually adding those columns  
> to the schema modules?
> 
> In other words:
> 
> while (my $obj = $rs->next) {
>     my $data = $obj->Foo->my_column;
> }

No.

However, if you use select/as attrs on the resultset,

$obj->get_column('extra_column')

will work.

But ... -why- do you want to do this?

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