Hi,
I am seriously considering writing a system to create
DBIx Classes via a configuration file. Since the
default for creating these classes are primarily
package method calls I think this could be pretty
easy.
So we could replace:
package myapp::Schema::foo
__PACKAGE__->load_components( ... );
__PACKAGE__table('foo');
(rest of your setup)
With (something like in evil YAML)
Schema:
foo:
table: foo
load_components:
- comp1
- comp2
and so forth.
We'd need an standard for package methods that can
have multiply invocations, most the relationship
stuff, but I think something like:
has_many:
bars: myapp::Schema::bar
foreign.id: self.barfk
bats: myapp::Schema::bat
foreign.id: self.batfk
The above is just a first guess as to how this could
work. I'd use config::any or similar so that you can
use the configuration of your choice. My imagination
is telling me this could be a new method on Schema,
that would be like ->load_classes, but would accept a
Perl structure to auto create the classes.
So I was wondering what people thought of the idea, if
you'd find it useful or am I off in my own world?
One objection I can see is that it makes it harder to
add active record style methods, but you could always
specify a custom result or resultclass to handle this.
Anyway, just my Sunday afternoon rumblings. Would
appeciate thoughts and feedback from the group.
--John
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