Re: how to set a DEFAULT value !!

On 4/24/06, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've proposed adding something simlilar to DBI itself, but I don't recall getting
any feedback on it. Presumably once in place DBIx::Class will someday support it.

DBI is complex enough, and AIUI the DBI philosophy opposes adding features
to the core that will cause implementation headaches for driver authors.

The standard perl idiom for default values is

%hash = ( key1 => 'defaultvalue1', key2 => 'defaultval2', @_ );

Combining that with something like the insert_hash example from perldoc DBI
should give you a tidy function that inserts default values.

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David L Nicol
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