Inflating and deflating

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Hi all,

I have an email field that inflates to a Mail::Address object and deflates
to a plain string. The reason for this rather than using a plain string is
that CGI::Untaint::email returns a Mail::Address object.

My problem is that I want to be able to call $object->email( $email ) with
a plain text scalar and have it do the right thing.

I've tried adding the necessary code to the deflate method but that
doesn't seem to get called. I feel that I should probably make this a
trigger but rather than blindly trying out different ones until I get a
result that looks right, I'd like to understand the best practice. So
which trigger should I add to make sure that I always convert a plain
text string into the appropriate object ?

Many thanks,

Simon Wilcox.