On 6/19/07, Matt S Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:28:48PM +0100, Daniel Hulme wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:09:29PM -0400, John Goulah wrote: > > You are correct (and I did explain that as well in my original post that was > > happening). So the question is , how can I make the same call and access > > the data in both places? It seems silly that I have to make the call > > without brackets to access in the controller, and with brackets to access in > > the template, so I assume I am accessing the object incorrectly in one place > > or the other, but I would like to be able to use ->next in the controller. > > You don't get both the iteratorish and the arrayish behaviour. If you > call it in list context, you get a list, and you can iterate over it > using FOREACH in your template and `for my $alumnus (@$alumni)` in your > Perl code. If you call it in scalar context, you get an iterator, and > you can iterate over it by calling $alumnus->next in your controller and > alumnus.next in your template. If you really want it both ways, the > obvious way is to call the thing twice, once in scalar context and once > in list context, and only put one of them in the stash. Or you could > call it in scalar context and when you iterate over the results in your > controller add them to a list as well and put the arrayref in the stash. > There may be a proper way to convert an iteratorish result into a list: > I suspect the people on the DBIx::Class mailing list would know. my @results = $rs->search(...); is exactly equivalent to my $result_rs = $rs->search(...); my @results = $rs->all; See http://search.cpan.org/~mstrout/DBIx-Class-0.08001/lib/DBIx/Class/ResultSet.pm#search http://search.cpan.org/~mstrout/DBIx-Class-0.08001/lib/DBIx/Class/ResultSet.pm#all Amazing what you can learn if you actually read the documentation :)
Thanks guys that all helps a lot, I did read the docs but somehow missed that (or perhaps I saw it but figured there was some way to get from scalar to array or vice versa here)-
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