Searching members of class

[steveo1999]

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I've been trying to learn Catalyst, but realize that I probably have to become more familiar with DBIC first.  Anyway, I'm trying to write a method in my 'Divisions' class of which one attribute is called 'divisionname'.  How can I write a sub called 'default' that will look in this table to find the one and only one record whose 'divisionname' is 'DEFAULT'?  FYI, I've successfully used this class to search the resultset, but don't see how to search within my own class.  

Thanks in advance.
Steve

BTW, I gave the Catalyst book a good review on Amazon, if that helps:)
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[Rob Kinyon]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 16:02, Steve<[hidden email]> wrote:
> I've been trying to learn Catalyst, but realize that I probably have to
> become more familiar with DBIC first.  Anyway, I'm trying to write a method
> in my 'Divisions' class of which one attribute is called 'divisionname'.
>  How can I write a sub called 'default' that will look in this table to find
> the one and only one record whose 'divisionname' is 'DEFAULT'?  FYI, I've
> successfully used this class to search the resultset, but don't see how to
> search within my own class.

Your "class" is actually the class of the row object. Rows cannot
search - they solely exist to allow manipulation of a row. You don't
get from the row back to the resultset. You want to add a method to
the resultset for that table.

Rob

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