John Siracusa scribbled on 3/9/07 9:45 AM:
> On 3/9/07, Peter Karman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> But I don't get this magical method:
>>
>> $product->delete_prices($price_id);
>>
>> which would be equivalent to:
>>
>> sub delete_prices
>> {
>> my $self = shift; # Product
>> my $price_id = shift;
>>
>> my @keep = grep { $_->id ne $price_id } $self->prices;
>> $self->prices(@keep);
>> }
>>
>
> Yeah, there's no individual delete methods for ...-to-many
> relationships yet. What you're written above amounts to a simple
> implementation of a "delete_on_save" method (but only if prices() is a
> "get_set_on_save" method; a real implementation wouldn't be able to
> rely on this).
>
> Such things are on my (long) to-do list.
ok cool. I agree about the simplistic example code. Glad to know you at least
have it on the to-do list, however long it may be.
For now I can keep doing:
$product->prices( grep { $_->id ne $price_id } $product->prices );
> So, for a one-to-many relationship, the "find", "get_set_on_save", and
> "add_on_save" method types are created by default.
>
> Finally, to find out what those methods will be called, look at the
> docs for the build_method_name_for_type() method. Example:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Rose-DB-Object/lib/Rose/DB/Object/Metadata/Relationship/OneToMany.pm#build_method_name_for_type
>
> The loose coupling makes for a lot of flexibility, but it also makes
> for widely separated docs, I know. Some sort of summary or overview
> would probably be handy, but I haven't gotten around to it.
>
beautiful. exactly what I wanted. Sometimes my problem is relating my idea of
what something is to what it is actually called in the docs; not knowing
exactly
what I should be looking for.
thanks, John.
pek
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