On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:58:14PM -0700, Pablo Collins wrote:
>
> I have a bunch of Class::DBI packages in a directory/namespace outside of
> the catalyst app I'm building and I would like to make them available as the
> model layer.
>
> It looks like if you want a model layer in catalyst, each class has to be
> inside the top-level namespace of the application. I would prefer to not
> have to create a package for each catalyst model class that says "package
> MyApp::Model::Foo; use base 'MyModel::Foo';" for each package. It would be
> neat if you tell the config where your model files live and have catalyst
> slurp them up.
I don't use $c->model to refer to my CDBI classes, so all I do in
Catalyst to connect to the model is this:
package MyApp::M::CDBI;
use DB;
DB->new( MyApp->config->{database} );
Where "DB" is the CDBI base class and new() sets up the parameters
from the application config and calls connection();
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