[Dbix-class] Backrefernce to parent object

[Rob Kinyon]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 04:02, Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+dbic at rabbit.us> wrote:
> Rolf Schaufelberger wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> suppose  I have a table  users  and a table address with a many-to many
>> relation between users and addresses.
>>
>> Now when I fetch a user object and I call an address method    like
>> $user->address({  search args})->first->do_something()
>> Is there a way   in do_someting to access  the calling user object ?
>
> This boils down to "if I have an $address how do I get the user it
> belongs_to".
> Which in turn requires you simply declare a belongs_to relationship on
> Address pointing to User. Or am I missing something here?

Peter - you're missing the "many-to-many" relationship bit.

Rolf - a Row object is completely stand-alone. There is no direct
relationship between the $user that did the search and the $address.
You're going to have to pass $user into do_something() if you want to
have access to it.

Rob