checking for dirtyness in DBix::Class

morgon has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

just a quick DBIx::Class question:

What is the proper way to check if an object is dirty?

Currently I simply do

if( $obj->get_dirty_columns ) {
 # $obj is dirty
 ...
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which works, however in my particular case I don't really care about which columns are dirty - only if there is at least one of them dirty, so I am throwing information away that DBIx::Class worked so hard to obtain...

Is that nevertheless the proper way to check?

Many thanks!

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Re: checking for dirtyness in DBix::Class by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Dec 27, 2010 at 15:00 UTC
You're doing too much work, I expect. `DBIx::Class::Row->update` contains- `my %to_update = $self->get_dirty_columns or return $self;` [download] So `update` is already no-op if nothing has changed (it can be forced to update individual columns anyway with `make_column_dirty`). If you really want to know if something/anything has changed there is also the method `is_changed` (and `is_column_changed` to boot).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: checking for dirtyness in DBix::Class by morgon (Priest) on Dec 27, 2010 at 15:57 UTC
Thanks mother. `is_changed` is exactly what I wanted.	[reply] [d/l]