[Dbix-class] DBIx::Class 0.08100 released to CPAN

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:59:48AM -0700, David Ihnen wrote:
> Peter Rabbitson wrote:
> >David Ihnen wrote:
> >  
> >>So 'does not exist' is not equivalent to 'undef' per the logic in the
> >>code?  Does something break if they are equivalent?
> >>    
> >
> >http://search.cpan.org/~mstrout/DBIx-Class-0.08100/lib/DBIx/Class/Row.pm#new
> >
> >'does not exist' = I don't know
> >'undef' = There isn't one
> >  
> 
> Understood.  We'll be more explicit.

Which is why:

> ->create_related('ivr_holiday', { holiday => date, description => 
> $description });
> 
> is called. but does not create an error on groups when
> 
> ->create_related('ivr_holiday', { holiday => date, description => 
> $description, donor => undef });

That change is correct - as I say, DBIC can't tell what's going to be in
the database so it errs on the side of paranoia.

Better to die() than to silently return the wrong thing.

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