[Dbix-class] DBIx::Class, another data validation approach

[Eden Cardim]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Rob Kinyon<rob.kinyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> First off, I think this is better than DBIC::Validation. It is a
> better fit to the ResultSet/Row separation that DBIC is all about.
>
> That said, there's a few things that I'd like to see be done:
> 1) With one setting, I should be able to turn on validation for all my
> columns that have a type set for them. So, if I have a column that is
> an integer, that should just turn on for me.
> 2) I should be able to chain validations. So, something like
> "validation => [ 'foo', 'bar' ]". Look at how Moose does this.

Once DBIC migrates to Moose we should get all of this relatively transparently.

> 3) Different DBMSes have different types. So, maybe producer-specific
> validations would be helpful (q.v. #1).

For Moose I'd make the storage class load up the adequate
TypeConstraints/Coercions for each backend.

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