I'm tring to get a handle on a bunch of Perlish things, i.e. OO, modules, Class::DBI, namespaces, CPAN, ...

Well Perl OK.

When dealing with Class::DBI I find I do the same things over and over. So I overide the base class methods and do it my way. For example I want Class::DBI to do the following:

$id = $obj->create({id =>999,
                    number_of_days_on_the_job=>3,
                    number_of_people_shot=>12});
                    
$error_string = $id unless $id == 999; 
# overide default die behavour and  
# return the error message if it fails constraints 

# for HTML::Template to 'associate' with
$obj->param('number_of_people_shot');    
print "The known fields are ".$obj->param()."\n";

%errors = $obj->set(    number_of_days_on_the_job => 4, 
                        number_of_people_shot => 27);

# or more to the point 
%errors = $obj->set( $CGI->Vars );
# i.e. don't die! also 
# don't update any of the values if there are any errors.
# and collect errors in hash for each error.
                        
print $error{number_of_people_shot} 
    if $error{number_of_people_shot} exists;

($dead, $x, $days) = $obj->get(    number_of_days_on_the_job, 
                                x, 
                                number_of_people_shot);        
# NOTE x is not in the table

print $x    
# prints some nonsense about that it - 'cant get nothing'

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What I'm asking is, well ... Do I get it? Or is this increadably dumb? Should I submit it to CPAN and wait for the royalty checks and parades? or is it just tooooo trivial? Its really quite simple - but it seems usefull.

In reply to Trivial CPAN module? by Anonymous Monk

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