Re: using DBI handles managed elsewhere

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On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:49:41PM -0500, Chris Winters wrote:
> I'm trying to provide glue between OpenInteract2 and Class::DBI. From
> reading the mailing list archives I learned that adding
> 'DBIx::ContextualFetch' to the 'RootClass' attribute of DBI's
> connect() method will provide the additional functionality needed by
> Class::DBI without using Ima::DBI. I can then provide this
> RootClass-enhanced handle to a CDBI class via a db_Main() method and
> all parties will be happy.

That very much depends on what the parties need to do!

Adding ContextualFetch will certainly provide some of the features that
Class::DBI needs, but it certainly won't provide the vast majority of 
the features that most users of Class::DBI want...

What are you actually hoping to achieve?

Tony