Re: Vague thoughts about is_a and might_be relationships

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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, James O'Sullivan wrote:
>  Aaron wrote :
>> I have a very short Class::DBI::Relationship::IsA module that Richard
>> Hundt wrote but isn't on CPAN. It seems to work when he used it but I
>> haven't used it in anger yet. It is attached, but I haven't tested (or
>> even compiled it). usual disclaimers and caveats apply :)
>
> This module looks promising.  I was actually in the middle of writing
> something very similar for my current project, but I've now ditched it as
> this is far further along.

Cool. Duplicated effort is wasted effort :) Rich will be pleased, when I 
mentioned that I had posted his code to the list he was rather nervous as 
he didn't reckon it was anywhere near finished.

> I had to make a few changes to get it to work the way I wanted for my
> project:
>
> 1) I mapped the parent object's column methods to the child.
> 2) I added a trigger so that if $child->update is executed the parent is
> also updated.
>
> If you think this would be useful I can send a patch.  I'll probably make
> a few more changes as the project progresses.

Yes, please send me a patch. We could put the class on the wiki somewhere 
so that it is easy to update?

also note that the email address for rich in the pod of the module is 
almost certainly wrong.

cheers,

A.

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