On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:45:16AM +0300, jackal wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 October 2008 03:05:48 Matt S Trout wrote:
> > > Module I want to contribute, ModifyColumn, can do it:
> > >
> > > my @status = qw/ok banned warned something else/;
> > > __PACKAGE__->modify_column('status', {
> > >     inflate => sub { $status[$_[0]] },
> > >     deflate => sub {
> > >         my $value = shift;
> > >         for (my $i=0; $i<=$#status; $i++) {
> > >             return $i if $status[$i] eq $value;
> > >         }
> > >         return undef;
> > >     }
> > > });
> > >
> > > http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/dbix-class/2008-October/006968.html
> >
> > Be nice if you could handle >1 value and >1 actual column - the biggest
> > annoyance of inflate_column has been the limitation of 1 column and 1
> > attribute.
> 
> I don't clearly understand what you mean. Can you give an example of desired 
> interface?
> 
> Now I'm doing like this:
> foreach my $c (qw/col1 col2 col3/) {
>   __PACKAGE__->modify_column($c, {...});
> }

Something that would for e.g. create a $obj->full_name out of 'first_name'
and 'last_name' columns - or vice versa, thwere there's a full_name column
but we actually want $obj->first_name and $obj->last_name

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