[Dbix-class] Caching a resultset?

[Peter Rabbitson]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 06:30:42AM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:13:44PM +1100, Peter Rabbitson wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:35:06PM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> > > 
> > > I have a Catalyst app that very frequently (pretty much every request)
> > > requires several DBIC resultsets that return a small number of values,
> > > that very rarely change. I'm trying to cache this, so I can update the
> > > cache when the values change and not have to hit my DB a half-dozen
> > > times on every request for data that is effectively static.
> > > 
> > > Originally the relevant line was along the lines of:
> > > 
> > >   $c->stash->{subjects} = $c->model('WordsDB::Subject')->search();
> > > 
> > > I replaced this, following the C::P::Cache docs, with 
> > > 
> > >   unless ( $c->stash->{subjects} = $cache->get( 'subjects' ) ) {
> > >     $c->stash->{subjects} = 
> > >         $c->model('WordsDB::Subject')->search();
> > >     $cache->set( 'subject', $c->stash->{subjects} );
> > >   }

What is $cache being serialized via? Storable? Or some other scheme?

> > > 
> > > However, this dies (on a second run, when it's actually hitting the
> > > cache) with "undef error - Can't call method "select" on an undefined
> > > value at /usr/share/perl5/DBIx/Class/ResultSet.pm line 957".

What is the exact code from get()ing the cache value to the error (or 
what is the smallest piece of code you can reduce it to)?

Cheers