Re: Inflate a boolean

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From: Tony Bowden
Subject: Re: Inflate a boolean
Date: 22:07 on 20 Feb 2005

On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 01:40:58PM -0800, Ofer Nave wrote:
> However, I think a.d.tim is right in that both of those are overly 
> complex if all you want to do is filter data as it travels between the 
> database and your CDBI object, without having to create an object 
> wrapper around it.  Not every column justifies a new class.  :)

It doesn't have to be a specific new class. Just a new instance of a
generic boolean class.

> Is it possible to use 'has_a' to write a simple filter to convert 1/0 to 
> 'yes'/'no' on load, and 'yes'/'no' to 1/0 on save?

Yes. See above. 

But, most of the time, if you really want "yes" and "no", store those
in your database, not 1 and 0.

Tony

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Inflate a boolean
adtim 09:08 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Ofer Nave 09:22 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Tony Bowden 09:44 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
a.d.tim 10:35 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Tony Bowden 11:15 on 20 Feb 2005

Re[2]: Inflate a boolean
a.d.tim 12:37 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Perrin Harkins 21:15 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Ofer Nave 21:40 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Tony Bowden 22:07 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Ofer Nave 22:24 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Johan Lindstrom 22:47 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Tony Bowden 23:35 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Johan Lindstrom 00:20 on 21 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Tony Bowden 09:31 on 21 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
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