Tomas Doran wrote:
Jarom Smith wrote:
Hello Catalysters:
First of all, a thousand apologies if this is a FAQ (and if it is,
please point me in the right direction). I have been programming in
Perl for a while but I freely admit there's a lot I don't know, which
is why I am here. I have completed the Catalyst tutorial, purchased
the book (which I am in the process of reading/completing) and I have
scrutinized all sorts of web pages trying to figure this out, but have
so far been unsuccessful.
Right! Your question has been answered in the rest of the thread, which
is great.
Please please please submit a doc patch which contains the appropriate
pointers to the info you want, where you tried to find that info...
This is obvious to anyone who knows DBIC, but obviously not clear to
beginners. Please point out where we should document it so that the next
person doesn't struggle!
Thanks in advance.
t0m
Hi t0m:
Pretend I'm a complete ignoramus... (that shouldn't be too hard, LOL)
If I were to want to submit a "doc patch", how would I go about doing it
and what exactly would I be submitting?
One revelation I had recently which I don't think has been mentioned
anywhere (at least not that I recall) is that when using DBIC and
Catalyst, *everything* is treated as a scalar. (is this a true
statement?) So in other words,
my $people = $c->model('AddressDB::People')
instead of
my @people = $c->model('AddressDB::People')
This hit me while reading p. 41 of the book. I'm not even totally sure
it's correct but things seem to work better when I adopt this
view-point, so it probably is correct. It kind of makes sense, because
the Catalyst stash stores things using scalars (strings) as keys, so if
you just think of everything as a scalar (which could be a ref to an
array or hash) then things become slightly less confusing. At least,
that's my current understanding. I am still very much muddling my way
through all this stuff.
What I haven't figured out (yet) is why it is necessary for me to cast
some things to array, whereas other times it works without casting to
array. I'm sorry, I don't have a specific code example. I'm still
working through the book and studying CPAN documentation pages
furiously. I'll get it eventually.
jarom smith
tech go-to guy
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