[Dbix-class] dirty-flag on inflated columns

[Moritz Onken]

Am 04.05.2009 um 17:18 schrieb Morgon Hed:

>
> Hi!
>
> I have a XML-column that I inflate/deflate to an object.
>
> What works is to create a new instance of such an object and pass  
> that to the column-accessor, then when updating the object is  
> deflated and stored in the database.
>
> The problem now is that I want to call a method on the inflated  
> object which changes it's internal state but the problem is that now  
> when I do an update DBIx::Class does not consider the column dirty  
> and does not update it.
>
> So basically what I need is way for the inflated object to mark the  
> column as dirty when it's state has changed ...
>
> Is there a way to do that?

Yes there is:

http://search.cpan.org/~ribasushi/DBIx-Class-0.08102/lib/DBIx/Class/Row.pm#make_column_dirty

moritz