Re: Inflating and deflating

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lists@xxxxxxxx.xxx wrote:
>>My problem is that I want to be able to call $object->email( $email )
> 
> with
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>>a plain text scalar and have it do the right thing.
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> 
> This can be accomplished with triggers, but it is somewhat complex and
> means forgoing the inflate/deflate mechanism. One approach:
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> http://groups.kasei.com/mail/arc/cdbi-talk/2004-12/msg00019.html

I did something similar to accomplish this, which I find easier to read 
but still kind of a workaround.  I used the accessor_name sub to give my 
column's accessor a name like "email_value" instead of email.  Then I 
wrote my own email accessor that does exactly what I want and calls 
email_value() for the database reads and writes.

The other way to go would be to make your own version of 
Class::DBI::Relationship::HasA which does what you want.  I think this 
would be an easy change.

- Perrin