Re: DBIx::Class creating get_* and set_* methods

[emazep]

DBIx::Class offers also the set_column and get_column accessors:

$person->set_column('name', 'John');
$name = $person->get_column('name');

It's not exactly what you were asking for, but just in case you feel more comfortable with the get/set prefixes anyway ;-)

Update

It must be specified that they don't have exactly the same semantics of the generated accessors (see the jrockway's reply and the DBIx::Class docs.)

Cheers,
Emanuele.

[jrockway]

Never use get_column and set_column directly unless you know what the side-effects are. They don't work the same way as using the accessors. Inflation is skipped, resultsets are not returned for relationships, etc.

[emazep]

Never use get_column and set_column directly unless you know what the side-effects are.

I would rather say "the absence of side-effects" ;-)
(That's exactly why I often use them and I find them perfectly adequate to get the columns raw values.)

Anyway you are right, I should have specified that's not exactly the same semantics of the generated accessors.

Cheers,
Emanuele.