[Catalyst] Models Inheriting from Catalyst::Base

[Bill Moseley]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:29:08AM -0600, Brandon Black wrote:
> AFAIK, the advantage of using Catalyst base classes in your model is
> that your ::Loader configuration can come from Catalyst-derived
> ->config() directives, which in turn means you can set your database
> dsn, password, etc from your application YAML config, instead of
> hardcoding it in the Model file.

But, that's not a requirement -- if you don't mind hard-coding the
name of the application.

Here's my entire model class:

    package App::M::CDBI;
    use DB;
    DB->new( App->config->{database} );
    1;


Can someone point me to docs on what happens if you inherit from
Catalyst?  IIRC, Catalyst will call your new() method (which, IIRC,
should call $self->NEXT::new($c)) and then you can store your object
in $c->components hash.

I have not had the need to use $c->component (or $c->model etc.) yet,
so that's a hole in my understanding of Catalyst.

-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org