Question if you have the gumption ... how would you handle loading the data?

Honestly, I would have used DBIx::Class or Fey::ORM. I wrote my own ORM years ago when SPOPS was state of the art and Class::DBI was still very much an ugly/dirty hack. I won't ever write one again, it is a solved problem and I have no interest in re-inventing that wheel.

First, it is very much not recommended to put a BUILD method in roles because it could get overridden by a local class version. You should do a before/after/around for BUILD instead, which will do what you want it to do.

Second, I would get rid of the BUILD method anyway and put the load function into the role and then call  MyTable->load( id => 1 ) to get things from the DB, because using new to fetch from the database is misleading since it is not creating a new instance, but loading an old one.

-stvn

In reply to Re^5: Moose + ORM by stvn
in thread Moose + ORM by Anonymous Monk

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