Thoughts on a CDBI::AsForm::_to_new()

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In forms, often I want my has_a relationships to expand into inputs for each
column in the has a class. Now, has_a classes are just made into select boxes. 

I'd like a _to_new() sub which would turn has_a 's into inputs for each column
in the class and just the default text input for non has_a columns.

My employee has a address, username_password, email_addr, phone_num, and
person.

It would be nice if in my new employee template, i could say:
[% SET how = "new" %]
[% USE employee = Class("CDBI::Employee") %]
[% FOR col IN employee.columns
	# Make new inputs for every part of employee
	employee->to_field(column, how); # returns result from _to_new()
[% END %]

To me AsForm seems like the place to put this.  I don't know. Maybe its
overkill.  

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pjs


		
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