I have been playing with Catalyst a bit (and who hasn't). It is a wonderful framework for getting going quickly with web development. However, particularly on the Model side, and to a certain extent on the View side, I would like to build my own models and views. I was hoping someone could clarify the inheritance pattern. The code for two different CPAN model modules is given here. One uses NEXT for creating the object and the other uses a different method. Which is the "correct" idiom (if there is one) and why? 
package Catalyst::Model::CDBI::Plain;

use strict;
our $VERSION = '0.03';
use base qw[Class::DBI Catalyst::Base];

sub new {
    my ( $class, $c ) = @_;
    return Catalyst::Base->new( $class, $c );
}

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versus this: 
package Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Plain;

use strict;
use base qw/Catalyst::Model DBIx::Class::Schema/;
use NEXT;

sub new {
    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
    $self = $self->NEXT::new($c);

    return $self;
}

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One quick and dirty Model class that I would like to use is DBIx::Simple (I know, not a model, but it works for some simple designs). Can folks suggest code for a generic DBIx::Simple Model (I have one that works and simply returns a new DBIx::Simple instance)?

Thanks,
Sean

In reply to Catalyst and component inheritance by srdst13

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