Re: Copying a Class::Accessor class to a CDBI class (CDBI::Plugin::Temp)

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>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Bowden <tony-cdbitalk@xxxxx.xxx> writes:

Tony> The only thing that's likely to be a problem is what happens to that
Tony> first record. I'm assuming that nothing breaks currently when that
Tony> object disappears, but that' sthe sort of thing that might change later,
Tony> which is why it would be a good idea to have an explicit test in the
Tony> baseline for this so that if anything does break it later we'll know.

Tony, if you add a "realized" field to your object, which is set only
when the object in memory maps to a "real" database object, you could
guarantee that the right thing happens.

For example, you could ensure that ->update (or autoupdate) is a no-op
for non-realized row objects.

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