On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 02:22:06PM +1000, Alex Peters wrote: > Hi, > > I'm starting a new project using Moose[1] and am wondering how > best to handle persistent storage of these Moose objects. > > If I weren't using Moose, DBIx::Class would be the obvious > answer here. However, in a way Moose and DBIx::Class seem to > overlap in terms of the functionality that they provide (auto- > generated accessors/mutators, etc.). > > There seems to be very little information on the internet about > using the two together, and I've scanned this year's posts to > this mailing list for any references to Moose and found almost > nothing[2] on this matter.
That's probably because the Moose community operates primarily by IRC, even more so than the DBIC one - it's been discussed at some lenght on both #moose and #dbix-class on irc.perl.org > So: has anyone here written Moose classes that feature DBIx:: > Class functionality? What approaches have been tried and how > do they rank in usability and maintainability? I just double-declare. Nothing really minds. See: http://code2.0beta.co.uk/reaction/svn/Reaction/0.001/trunk/t/lib/RTest/TestDB/Foo.pm which is what we're doing for Reaction apps as a stopgap until 0.09. Equally, though, there's absolutely no reason you can't just use plain DBIC objects and then apply method modifiers, roles etc. via Moose - the two projects share quite a few committers in common so everything tends to work just fine, and if it doesn't it gets fixed pretty quickly. > Perhaps there's a (very well hidden) Moose plugin that makes > the whole process trivial? There's an svn-only MooseX::DBIC but (a) I don't like the API very much (b) we're planning to port DBIC itself to Moose for 0.09 anyway. > I'm not even sure if this is the right place to ask. I'm kinda > surprised that it hasn't really been asked yet--like the answer > should be blatantly obvious, but I've stared at the problem for > too long. I hope the above clears things up a bit. -- Matt S Trout Need help with your Catalyst or DBIx::Class project? Technical Director http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/catalyst/ Shadowcat Systems Ltd. Want a managed development or deployment platform? http://chainsawblues.vox.com/ http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/servers/ _______________________________________________ List: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/DBIx-Class/ Searchable Archive: http://www.grokbase.com/group/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
