Re: Advice on Module name, please.

On 28/03/11 16:49, Sam Brain wrote:
> I would like ask the group for advice on module naming, as I have seen
> some missteps in the past.
>
> I have written a small module which takes the output of
> DBI::fetchall_arrayref() or its ilk, and generates Moose objects from it.
>
> Showing great imagination, I have called the module
> DBIx::BuildMooseObjects. I picked "DBIx::" as the module's functionality
> seems to fit the DBIx namespace.
>
> There are two main exported routines, rather clumsily named
> mk_AoMobj_from_2d_array() and mk_complex_Mobj_from_2d_array(). The first
> returns a (ref to) an array of (already-declared) Moose objects, the
> second (a ref to) an array of complex, nested Moose objects (sub-objects
> declared as "isa => 'ArrayRef[...]' " )

You'll want to make sure the unrolling is configurable.

The crawling horror that is _collapse_result in DBIx::Class::ResultSet 
may prove enlightening as to the contortions one ends up going throw to 
make this stuff work.