Hi perlmonks,

I'm trying to inherit from Data::Table, but I'm having difficulty since I need to use Data::Table::FromSql to load the data. I've found a solution by inheriting from MyTable which has an instance of a Data::Table and then uses AUTOLOAD to redirect calls from TableA to Data::Table. The highly simplifed code is shown below. I've left many of the details out. 

package MyTable
sub new { ... }
sub buildFromSql {
  $self->{t} = Data::Table::fromSql($dbh,$sql);
}

sub AUTOLOAD {
   my $self = shift;
   my $command = our $AUTOLOAD;
   $command =~ s/.*://;
   
   $self->{t}->$command(@_);
}

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package TableA

@ISA = ("MyTable");

sub new {   
    $self = $class->SUPER::new(@_);
   
    $self->buildFromSql($dbh,$sql)
}

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## CLIENT
my $table = new TableA();
$table->html2."\n";

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This works but I'm wondering if there are better ways to do this. Can anyone suggest any ways of improving this? thanks, Michael

In reply to inheriting from Data::Table by Anonymous Monk

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