[Dbix-class] Relationship delegated accessors using DBIC

[Peter Rabbitson]

Matt Whipple wrote:
> Is there any built in functionality in DBIC to allow a relationship to
> be defined so that the foreign fields can be accessed as though in the
> present class?
> 
> I presently have part of an application that is using to tables with a
> one to one relationship.  One contains user information and the other
> contains the application specific data for the users (contracts).  All
> of the relationships seem to be working and I can access the member
> information through a, for example, $contract->member->first_name call,
> but would like the higher level code to be able to treat all of the data
> as simple, uniform accessors (i.e. $contract->first_name).  I'm
> presently using methods for each column within the Result class but was
> hoping there was an option within the relationship definition similar to
> a Moose 'handles'...is there some incarnation of the proxy() method that
> will do this or any other existing solution?
> 

There is a proxy relationship attribute. More info at [1] (search for proxy)

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~ribasushi/DBIx-Class-0.08108/lib/DBIx/Class/Relationship/Base.pm#add_relationship