Re: [CDBI] Ordering by a foreign column

> Hi,

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:00:16PM -0600, Ken Youens-Clark wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been hacking the "Hops" Catalyst sample CRUD application for my  
> own evil purposes, and I've gotten lots of stuff working relatively  
> easy.  For a couple of days, however, I've been stuck on how to get  
> my "list" view of a table to be able to sort on any of the columns  
> shown, including those from a foreign table (e.g., the "stringified"  
> version of a foreign key).  My model classes are based on Class::DBI,  
> of course, so I'm writing here to ask for guidance.
> 
> I Googled and found a similar thread ("order by a foreign key") from  
> back in August of this year:
> 
> 	http://lists.digitalcraftsmen.net/pipermail/classdbi/2005-August/ 
> 000065.html
> 
> I've followed through all the suggestions and have tried various  
> plugins and extensions such as Class::DBI::Sweet, Class::DBI::Pager,  
> Class::DBI::Plugin::Pager and Class::DBI::Plugin::RetrieveAll.  Of them:
> 
> Class::DBI::Sweet - doesn't work as advertised;  I can't get any  
> sorting whatsoever to work, either on a column in the table or an  
> expanded column;  actually, this module produces invalid SQL when I  
> specify the "prefetch" (the arg of which should be an arrayref, not  
> noted in the docs), and it seems to check the "has_a" and  
> "might_have" meta_info incorrectly

Any chance you could elaborate on "doesn't work as advertised" given I'm
using that exact feature in production on a number of sites?

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