On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:59:22AM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote: > In some ways you're comparing apples with Wednesday. What do you mean by > 'full support'? DBIC has /some/ many-to-many relationship support - see > DBIx::Class::Relationship - has_many(), belongs_to(), many_to_many(). > If you can express a query you'd perform in SQL, you can use DBIC's > SQL::Abstract support to perform a join that isn't directly supported by > the higher level API.
... Which is what I mean by `not supported'. Other relationship types have full support at the search level. Not so for `many-to-many', which is not quite a relationship, it has some of its properties, but it's somewhat faked, and definitely not a first class object compared to what you can do naturally with other relationshipt types. You can perform searches across other relationship types, you cannot for `many-to-many', you either have to write contrieved searches that start from the middle table, or you have to actually write some SQL code, which is exactly what I'm trying to avoid in the first place. _______________________________________________ List: http://lists.rawmode.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class Wiki: http://dbix-class.shadowcatsystems.co.uk/ IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/trunk/DBIx-Class/ Searchable Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dbix-class@lists.rawmode.org/
