Re: Trivial Question

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On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 10:49:31PM +0100, Tony Bowden wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:32:16PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > I would presume the result of $obj->gimme_hash would be equivalent to:
> > 	my %hash;
> > 	foreach my $col ($obj->columns) {
> > 		$hash{$col} = $obj->$col();
> > 	}
> > No?
> 
> Well, in the general case there's all sorts of issues here with inflated
> columns, triggers, even overriden methods.

Shouldn't this all be taken care of due to the fact that its going through
each column's accessor?  I guess it depends on what you want:  What's in
the database or what the object presents to you.  I'd lean towards the
latter simply because its really easy to get the former by bypassing CDBI.


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        Michael G Schwern     schwern@xxxxx.xxx     http://www.pobox.com/~schwern
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