Re: [CDBI] Different subclasses for one table / Factory Pattern?

i for one appreciate you posting your episodes to the list, even if  
you aren't seeing responses.  i haven't had to tackle this particular  
problem yet, but i am sure it will come up and appreciate having your  
thoughts and experiences documented for future reference.

michael.

On Sep 11, 2006, at 8:03 AM, Oliver Jeeves wrote:

> Oliver Jeeves wrote:
>> Oliver Jeeves wrote:
>> ...
>> However, this leads naturally to my next question; how do I  
>> achieve this
>> sort of thing?
>>
>> Currently, I'm thinking of having the base class call retrieve on the
>> derived class, which will probably mean extra DB lookups, but will
>> definatly work. Does anyone have a better solution?
>>
>> -Oli
>
> Episode IV: A New Hope
>
> It's been awfully quite on this list recently, where has everyone  
> gone?
>
> Anyway, I think I now have a working solution; override the construct
> method.
>
> Looking at the internals of CDBI, it appears that all the constructors
> evenatually call construct (except, maybe, via iterators, but by this
> point I had gone cross eyed, so I'll leave this to someone else to
> check), so my approach is to override construct with a simple wrapper
> that just calls construct on the correct class.
>
> Initially, this caused an infinite loop as the I was calling construct
> on a derived class which didn't define its own construct method. I got
> around this by calling SUPER::construct unless the class the method  
> was
> called on was equal to __PACKAGE__.
>
> So The code looks like this:
>
> sub construct
> {
> 	my $proto	= shift; ## class or obj
> 	my $data	= shift;
> 	
> 	my $class = ref $proto || $proto;
> 	
> 	if ($class eq __PACKAGE__)
> 	{
> 		my $new_class =
> 			'My::Base::Class::' . $data->{'type'};
> 		return $new_class->construct($data);
> 	}
> 	else
> 	{
> 		return $proto->SUPER::construct($data);
> 	}
> }
>
> In my code, the (Essential) DB column 'type' determines which subclass
> the object should be.
>
> This means that my derived classes automatically inherit all the CDBI
> relationships from the base class, and can also add their own
> relationships, which you can't do if re-blessing a CDBI object after
> creation.
>
> I hope this is of help for anyone trying to do something similar,  
> and I
> hope that someone can point out any problems or potential pitfalls  
> with
> this approach before I get myself into serious trouble!
>
> -Oli
>
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