On 2/12/07, Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, February 12, 2007 9:48 am, John Siracusa wrote:
>> On 2/11/07, Ask Bjørn Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> RDBO uses the first unique key what has a defined value (evaluated in the
>> order they were added to the metadata, IIRC). Since the default value for
>> the email column is indeed defined (''), it is used. [...]
>
> Hm, so ->new is populating unspecified columns with default values and
> then load is using those.
Well, no, not really. The accessor method is called within load() in
order to determine if a column has a defined value. The accessor
method then returns the default value if the actual value is undef.
Nothing interesting related to this happens in new().
> Could the population of unspecified columns be delayed
It sort of is (see above) depending on your definition of "delayed"
and "populated." :)
> or make it possible for ->load to determine that a column was not specified
> but has been given the default value.
What would load() do with that information? Disregard such column
values? I know I've had classes where I *want* a default value to
contribute to a unique key just the same as if it was set manually, so
there's no obvious, single answer for what to do in that situation.
Allowing a key name to be specified as a parameter to the load() call
is a better idea, I think. (That'd require people to give their
unique keys nice/sensible/memorable names, of course.)
-John
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