Hi

I have a xml-column in a table that I inflate and deflate to an object like this:

__PACKAGE__->inflate_column('xml',
                                  {
                                   inflate => sub { MyObject->new( xml
+ => $_[0] ) },
                                   deflate => sub { $_[0]->asXML },
                                  }
                           );
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This works and I can do the following:

 $row->xml(MyObject->new( xml => "<hubba/>" );  # row is now dirty
 $row->update;  # goes to the database
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Now assume the MyObject-class has a method "bubba" that changes it's state. Then this does not work:

 $row->xml->bubba("whatever");   #works in memory but column is not co
+nsidered dirty
 $row->update;  # does nothing
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So the problem is that calling methods on the inflated object does not make the column "dirty" for DBIx::Class.

So my question is how can I (or better the inflated object) tell DBIx::Class that the column is now dirty and should be written back to the database?

Many thanks!