[Catalyst] C::M::{CDBI,DBIC} vs direct Loader use?

[Matt S Trout]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 08:35:11PM -0600, Brandon Black wrote:
> > Yeah. Bear in mind that this works -
> >
> > $c->stash->{foo} = sub { "Foo to you, $_[0]"; };
> >
> > [% foo('Dr. Roberts'); %] # will add "Foo to you, Dr. Roberts" to the output
> >
> 
> That's about the closest to clean now that I've seen so far that
> actually works.  But I'll have to remember to wrap all of my date
> variables used in templates ( [% timezone_ize(some_date_variable) %]
> ).  I'd still really like to just make it automagic for all DateTime
> objects, but doing context-related magic on certain types of objects
> before they are Viewed without using Singleton is proving to be quite
> a pain.

This smells of insufficiently flexible ORM. But as Perrin notes any good
solution needs to not make your model classes Catalyst-specific - maybe
allowing an optional context object and falling back to something else if
it isn't available.

If you can think of a sane API for it, an RFC to the DBIx::Class list would
be much appreciated.

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