Re: CDBI::Relationship::Glue ?

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On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:45:01PM +0300, Yuval Kogman wrote:
> 	Role->connect( actor => 'Actor', film 'Film');
> could be a nice way to shortcut. It would take the two foreign keys,
> generate plurals, create has_many relationships for films in Actor, and
> actors in Film, as well as has_many relationships for a role having an
> actor and a film.

Looks nice. As you suggest later I suspect "link" might be a better
name, as this sort of thing is usually known as a "linking table".

And I think it would be better as "links" describing what it's _doing_:
"this class links these two other classes"

Although, bear in mind that whatever you choose to call the method will
prevent anyone using your module from ever having a column called
that... so it should probably be something slightly more longwinded:
links_together? provides_link? is_linking?

> Is there anything foul with it? If not maybe someone (maybe even me)
> should make a little add-on module.

Go for it!

Tony