Re: Returning A Class::Date Object

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yup - completely missed that example in the documentation! cheers matt

Matt S Trout wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:10:19PM +0000, Jay Hargreaves wrote:
> 
>>Hi y'all!
>>
>>I have found Class::Date to be a very useful date formatting routine and 
>>as such I would like to return a Class::Date object (rather than the 
>>actual value) for any date fields in my database.
>>
>>Presumably it might also be a good idea to set values in the database 
>>from a Class::Date object, since it has various parsing facilities 
>>available.
>>
>>Can someone please tell me a good way to do this is? Do I use a trigger? 
> 
> 
> Have a look at the inflate and deflate stuff in the Class::DBI pod, which
> expands on the following synopsis example:
> 
> Music::CD->has_a(
>   reldate => 'Time::Piece',
>   inflate => sub { Time::Piece->strptime(shift, "%Y-%m-%d") },
>   deflate => 'ymd',
> );
> 

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