[Dbix-class] get_columns() with inflaters

[Matt S Trout]

Christopher H. Laco wrote:
> Matt S Trout wrote:
>> Michele Beltrame wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>>> my %hash = map { ($_ => $o->$_) } $o->columns;
>>> Thanks Matt, this was so easy I didn't even think of it. I don't know
>>> why, I was looking for a method which did all automatically. ;-)
>> DBIC doesn't tend to get convenience methods that encapsulate what I consider 
>> a bloody obvious perl idiom unless somebody else implements them and supplies 
>> a patch with tests. Mmm, and I turn 23 in an hour and a half. Somebody fetch 
>> me my pipe and slippers so I can sit around saying "bah" and saying how much 
>> better it was in the old days :)
>>
> 
> Bah. Kids these days have it so easy. In my day, we had Class::DBI, that
> puked and barfed up errors and we liked it! WE LOVED IT!

I remember my first ever database code. In plain DBI. Without bind parameters 
(though I did quote stuff :). And the massive fugly hashes I massaged it into. 
And the joy of learning SQL, perl, *n?x and CGI all at the same time, with a 
deadline breathing down my neck.

And later, when the code went live and suddenly had to scale, how delighted I 
was to discover "GROUP BY" :)

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