dbix::class relationship problem or TT object handling problem?

[uG]

Basically what I have included is the dbix::class schema's for my catalyst app as well as the view function for it. It seems simple enough, and I figured:

[% FOR resource = nation.resources %]<li>[% resource %]</li>[% END %]

Would print out each resource name for each resource id a nation had. I was quite surprised when it didn't work, but did when I changed it to:

[% FOR resource = nation.resources %]<li>[% resource.resource %]</li>[
+% END %]

Now I basically cloned this whole thing from the catalyst roles tutorial. The only difference between that and this is that is in this one I have to put the nation object into the stash, whereas with the tutorial you can access it through c (thanks to authorization via c.user.roles). What am I missing here?
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sub view_nation : Regex('^nation/(\d+)$') {
   my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
   my $nid  = $c->request->snippets->[0];

   $c->stash->{nation} = $c->model('DB::Nation')->find({id => $nid}) |
+| die "No such nation!";
   $c->stash->{template} = 'nation/nation.tt2';
}

package Game::Schema::Nation;

use base qw/DBIx::Class/;

__PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/PK::Auto Core/);
__PACKAGE__->table('nation_info');
__PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/id name owner/);
__PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('id');
__PACKAGE__->belongs_to(user => 'Game::Schema::User', 'owner');
__PACKAGE__->has_many(map_nation_resource => 'Game::Schema::NationReso
+urce', 'nation_id');
__PACKAGE__->many_to_many(resources => 'map_nation_resource', 'resourc
+e');

=head1 NAME

Game::Schema::Nation - A model object representing a nation.

=cut

1;

package Game::Schema::NationResource;

use base qw/DBIx::Class/;

# Load required DBIC stuff
__PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/PK::Auto Core/);
# Set the table name
__PACKAGE__->table('nation_resources');
# Set columns in table
__PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/nation_id resource_id/);
# Set the primary key for the table
__PACKAGE__->set_primary_key(qw/nation_id resource_id/);
__PACKAGE__->belongs_to(nation => 'Game::Schema::Nation', 'nation_id')
+;
__PACKAGE__->belongs_to(resource => 'Game::Schema::Resource', 'resourc
+e_id');


=head1 NAME

Game::Schema::NationResource - A model object representing the JOIN be
+tween Nations and Resources.

=cut

1;

package Game::Schema::Resource;

use base qw/DBIx::Class/;

# Load required DBIC stuff
__PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/PK::Auto Core/);
# Set the table name
__PACKAGE__->table('resources');
# Set columns in table
__PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/id resource/);
# Set the primary key for the table
__PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('id');
__PACKAGE__->has_many(map_nation_resource => 'Game::Schema::NationReso
+urce', 'resource_id');

=head1 NAME

Game::Schema::Resources - A model object representing a resource to a 
+nation.

=cut

1;

[edoc]

looks ok to me, nation.resources returns a list of resource objects so you need to access the column in the object..

you could also do:

[% FOR resource = nation.resources %]<li>[% resource.id %]</li>[% END 
+%]

which would list the resouce ids..

[jasonk]

You would get the same results from the tutorial if you called c.user.obj.roles instead of c.user.roles, the object returned by c.user is not a DBIx::Class object, it's a subclass of Catalyst::Authentication::User, in particular if you are using Catalyst::Authentication::Store::DBIx::Class then it's a Catalyst::Authentication::Store::DBIx::Class::User object, and calling ->roles on it returns an array of strings, not objects.