Help on creation

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I have been looking through the documentation and writing lots and lots of code that is ugly and never seems to work. What I need to do it pretty straightforward, so I must be missing something - and I am hoping someone here can help. 

I have a Class::DBI object called booking with a has_many relationship to passengers.

I need to create the booking object and passenger objects from a cgi post with the following parameters:

| booking.date                          | 2005/7/5
| booking.departure_time                | 8:00
| booking.passenger[0].first_name       | Mike
| booking.passenger[0].surname          | McKay
| booking.passenger[1].first_name       | Claudia 
| booking.passenger[1].surname          | McKay


I would like to make some sort of data object out of this data, that I could then load directly into a Class::DBI object. I have created this:

'booking' => {
           'departure_time' => '8:00',
           'date' => '2005/7/5',
           'passenger' => [
                           {
                             'surname' => 'McKay',
                             'first_name' => 'Mike'
                           },
                           {
                             'surname' => 'McKay',
                             'first_name' => 'Claudia'
                           }
                          ],
  }

}

But there doesn't seem to be an automatic way to load this. I have to create the booking, then call add_to_passengers on it for each one of my passenger elements. This makes it awfully difficult to write generic loading code. Does anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks

Mike