[Dbix-class] Relationship delegated accessors using DBIC

Matt Whipple matt at mattwhipple.com
Mon Aug 3 14:02:55 GMT 2009


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?
Sorry...I think proxy does do what I'm looking for, I misread the docs 
and sent the email as I started testing (rather than waiting to finish)

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