Re: [CDBI] Turning Class::DBI on its side

Dave Howorth <dhoworth-fDajt2Yx3S8pY9vWkoisglpr/1R2p/[email protected]> Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:11:54 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.class-dbi
Organization MRC Centre for Protein Engineering
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Duncan Ferguson wrote:
> So, how I can set up the accessors to point to a row in the database
> rather than a column?  There should only be one row per name (so name
> could be a primary key rather than id).  I can see that I probably have
> to provide/create each accessor for each distinct item in the table (or
> do a generic AUTOLOAD one to search for the item and get the value) but
> how do I create the correct object to be returned to the caller? 

Well if you really want to do that :) ...

If the body of your accessor methods use code similar to that you
already showed, the objects will already be constructed (by the search)
will they not?

Cheers, Dave