Hi Phil,
If you turn on SQL debugging (set DBIX_CLASS_STORAGE_DBI_DEBUG to true in your environment), you'll notice that the status object gets fetched when you first try to access ->descr, and isn't refetched when you just change a column entry in the check object. It would indeed be nice if that magically updated a related object, and I'll propose it.

In the meantime you can do either: 

  my $newstatus = $schema->resultset('Status')->find(2);
  $check->status($newstatus);

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or: 
  $check->update({status => 2});
  $check->discard_changes();

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It's not as pretty.. but it works.

C.

In reply to Re: DBIx::Class foreign key update woes by castaway
in thread DBIx::Class foreign key update woes by philcrow

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