Esteemed monks,

I am using Class::DBI and HTML::Template with CGI::Application. To speed the process of providing HTML::Template with the hashes it requires I recently added the following to my subclass: 

package AppSys::DBI;
use base 'Class::DBI::mysql';

sub hashy {
    my $self = shift;
    return {
        map {
            my $g = $self->get($_);
            $g = hashy($g) if ref $g;
            ( $_ => $g );
        }
        $self->columns
    };
}

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Code originally from PodMaster in Re: Getting HASHES out of Class::DBI. To return HASHREF's which I can pass to HTML::Template. This is fine if the method is called on a Class::DBI object. But what if I have an iterator? OK, I can 'wrap' hashy in a WHILE loop and push the returned HASHREF's onto a list and voila I can pass it to a <TMPL_LOOP..>.

My question is how do I go about determining which Class I am being called from? Am I a Class::DBI object and thus a single record being returned, or am I a Class::DBI::Iterator and thus I can iterate over myself and return a ref to a list of hashes.

jdtoronto

In reply to Help with extending Class::DBI please. by jdtoronto

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