Re: Cross between MightHave and HasMany?

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On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:06:45PM -0800, Peter Speltz wrote:
> But if you want , Have you tried making a Temp column of person category? I
> haven't tried Temp but from reading the docs, i hope to be able to say:
> 
> Person->columns( Temp => [ "category"]);
> Person->has_a(category => "PersonCategory");
> 
> .... then  have everything work just like if the category column was in the
> person table.  It should be able to update the PersonCategory object.

Wouldn't using might_have provide the same results with less code?

e.g.

  Person->might_have(category => "PersonCategory" => qw/cat_id/);

This brings up the question of whether CDBI makes category into a Temp
column. Tony?


> .... then  have everything work just like if the category column was in the
> person table.  It should be able to update the PersonCategory object.
> 
> prsn_obj->category->cat_id($cgi_val);
> prsn_obj->update; # or maybe prsn_obj->category->update;

I would think that the prsn_obj->category->update would be the correct
call. Personally, I wouldn't use this setup with a M2M relation. To get
a category name, you'd need to use something like:

  prsn_obj->category->category;

Or stringify Category to the category column (which potentially
introduces other weirdness).


William

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