On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:02 PM, fREW Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, so we have some legacy databases with long, obscure column names and I'd
> like to define accessors with nicer, more clear names.  I took care of that
> just fine, but I'd like to be able to search by the accessor names.  Is
> there a way to do that?

There's no built-in functionality for aliasing search columns (adding
the feature would imply an SQLA rewrite, I think) but it should be
easy to write a non-generic solution by overriding your resultset's
search_rs() to swap keys specifically from your app's search
conditions.

> Also, where is the hash describing a column documented besides the Intro?

DBIx::Class::ResultSource


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