RE: Class::DBI::Loader and accessors

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From: Zhuang Li
Subject: RE: Class::DBI::Loader and accessors
Date: 21:54 on 23 Mar 2005

Hi, Tony, thank you for your reply. I've learnt a lot from reading your
postings to the list but haven't been able to check as often lately.

Anyway, 'retrieve_all' is just a special form of 'search' to me. It's
easier to remember and to do this way:

	@cds =3D Music::CD->search(year =3D> 1990, { order_by =3D> 'artist'
});
And 	@cds =3D Music::CD->retrieve_all({ order_by =3D> 'artist' });

than this way:

	@cds =3D Music::CD->search(year =3D> 1990, { order_by =3D> 'artist'
});
But	use base 'Class::DBI';
      use Class::DBI::Plugin::RetrieveAll;

      @cds =3D Music::CD->retrieve_all_sorted_by("artist");

I'm not sure how useful or necessary to have a default 'sorted_by' for
'retrieve_all' (i.e may have to check elsewhere to find out what's
default 'sorted_by').=20

If it is, should we provide the same functionality to 'search' method
too?

Regards,

john

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Bowden [mailto:tony-cdbitalk@xxxxx.xxx]
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:16 PM
> To: cdbi-talk@xxxxxx.xxxxx.xxx
> Subject: Re: Class::DBI::Loader and accessors
>=20
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:02:14PM -0800, Zhuang Li wrote:
> > The code here is much simpler than RetrieveAll plugin and easier to
use.
>=20
> That's mainly because the RetrieveAll plugin does more.
>=20
> Tony