Re: How to avoid $class->new($value) with inflate

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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:17:27AM -0500, William McKee wrote:
> > I've seen this come up a few times in the last several weeks; maybe it's 
> > worth writing a small Class::DBI::Relationship::Transform that'd simplify 
> > the process.  I'll have a crack at it if there's general consensus that 
> > it'd be a Good Thing.  Any alternate ideas about the name?
> 
> Charles,
> 
> How would this new class be easier than writing a trigger? I'm not
> convinced that the explosion of the Relationship::* namespace is a good
> thing for new CDBI users (or even folks like myself who are still trying
> to get a better grasp even after a year of using it). I'm open to being
> persuaded otherwise.

root@mccoy:/usr/local/src/.cpan/sources/modules# zgrep Class::DBI::Relationship
02packages.details.txt.gz
Class::DBI::Relationship          undef  T/TM/TMTM/Class-DBI-0.96.tar.gz
Class::DBI::Relationship::HasA    undef  T/TM/TMTM/Class-DBI-0.96.tar.gz
Class::DBI::Relationship::HasMany undef  T/TM/TMTM/Class-DBI-0.96.tar.gz
Class::DBI::Relationship::HasManyOrdered 0.02  T/TE/TEEJAY/Class-DBI-Relationship-HasManyOrdered-0.02.tar.gz
Class::DBI::Relationship::HasVariant 0.01  R/RJ/RJBS/Class-DBI-Relationship-HasVariant-0.01.tar.gz
Class::DBI::Relationship::IsA      0.05  R/RH/RHUNDT/Class-DBI-Relationship-IsA-0.05.tar.gz
Class::DBI::Relationship::MightHave undef  T/TM/TMTM/Class-DBI-0.96.tar.gz

Doesn't really seem like an explosion, as such - three other than the ones
shipped with Class::DBI itself.

I do, however, think the Class::DBI docs should mention that there are other
relationship modules; I discovered their existence only by accident and I'd
guess I'm not alone (there must be at least a few other coders this stupid ;)

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