[Catalyst] getting the db connection used by catalyst

[Andreas Marienborg]

I assume you have considered adding this to your dbic-schema?

If it is all to deal with the same DB, and the same structures, you  
might benefit from that.


andreas


On 4. okt. 2006, at 04.27, Daniel McBrearty wrote:

> basically it does some fancy processing on the db and caches the
> results. initially, that will be it. It will present a number of
> convenience methods, which can be used to access either the db or
> cached data. There will likely be some methods to write to the db,
> again convenience stuff.
>
>
>
> On 10/4/06, Brandon Black <blblack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/3/06, Daniel McBrearty <danielmcbrearty at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> if you have a (dbix) database, and use it as a model, you generally
>>> end up doing this :
>>>
>>> $c->model-> ....
>>>
>>> and the database connection is handled internally.
>>>
>>> I now want to write another model which uses the db. It would be
>>> better to use the existing connection that cat has created, rather
>>> than create another one.
>>>
>>> If I write a new() method for this model, does it have access to the
>>> context? what is a good way to do this?
>>
>>
>> What kind of model is your new model, and how will it use/store/ 
>> whatever the
>> $dbh?  There are a lot of ways to do what you're talking about in  
>> general,
>> it all depends on what's right for your design.  Be aware that  
>> once you take
>> the raw $dbh from DBIC and start using it yourself, you lose all  
>> of its
>> fancy connection management.
>>
>> -- Brandon
>>
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