Put this code in the base class for your Class::DBI-derived data class, and you can define meta-information (using Config::Scoped) for your database rows, including per-column data. The name of the file is mumble.cfg, where mumble is the last part of your CDBI class name, and is in the same directory.

The result produces a hash accessible by calling ->Config on either the class name or an instance. For example, if you want to know that the name column of the My::DB::Address should be displayed as a textfield of width 15, you can put this meta information in Address.cfg as 

name { type = textfield width = 15 }

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and then access that in Template Toolkit as: 
type = row.Config.name.type;
width = row.Config.name.width;

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This box is too short to show more... I'm probably going to submit this as a separate module soon as a CDBI plugin.

sub Config {
  my $self = shift;
  my $class = ref $self || $self;

  ## compute filename relative to me, based on my packagename
  my $p = __PACKAGE__;
  (my $s = $class) =~ s/^\Q$p\E::// or die "$p is not prefix of $class
+!";

  $p = __FILE__;
  $p =~ s/\.pm$// or die "$p doesn't end with .pm!";

  require File::Spec;
  my $file = File::Spec->catfile($p, split '::', $s) . ".cfg";

  my $config = do {
    if (-e $file) {
      require Config::Scoped;
      Config::Scoped->new
      (file => $file,
       warnings => {qw(permissions off parameter off)},
      )->parse;
    } else {
      {}
    }
  };

  {
    no strict 'refs';
    *{$class . '::Config'} = sub { $config };
  }
  return $config;
}

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In reply to Associate a config file with a Class::DBI class for meta information by merlyn

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