CRUDdy DBIC question

[Zbigniew Łukasiak]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Bob MacCallum <uncoolbob at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry about the Perl question.
>
> We have a database model where the master copy of the data is file based.
>
> Is there some DBIx::Class magic which does some kind of nested
> update_or_create_or_delete?  For example, an object might initially be
> written to the db along with its three children, but then someone
> edits the file and removes one child, adds another, and edits an
> existing child.
>
> I've seen http://search.cpan.org/~scain/DBIx-DBStag-0.12/DBIx/DBStag.pm
> and stag-storenode.pl - if we convert our files into Stag format
> temporarily, maybe this could work.  Are there any other options I've
> missed?

There is: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class::ResultSet::RecursiveUpdate
- but I hate it.

Cheers,
Zbigniew