[Catalyst] Models Inheriting from Catalyst::Base

[Matt S Trout]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 05:09:54PM +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Its a classic DBIx::Class set of classes - base class building on
> DBIx::Class:-
>   package BroadsoftFeature::M::Db::Base::DBIC;
>   use base qw/DBIx::Class/;
> 
> I changed that to
>   use base qw/Catalyst::Base DBIx::Class/;

There's no real advantage to making your table classes isa Catalyst::Base
- generally you'd want to have either your Loader-using class or your
DBIx::Class::Schema (which is how the Plain model works) isa Catalyst::Base
so you can use 'sub new' to get application config for init etc.

> Using Catalyst 5.66 and DBIC 0.03 - everything up to date as of
> yesterday, although its hard to keep up with the Catalyst release
> stream :-)

I doubt it's relevant here, but please bear in mind DBIx::Class uses a
0.XXyyy versioning scheme - XX represents substantive changes and yyy
point releases; latest 0.03 point release is 0.03003, which I'd recommend
installing for the POD improvements by Marcus and others alone.

It's like the new Class::DBI versioning system, except CPAN still works :-)

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