L<DBIx::Class::Row> objects. You can change the name of the accessor
by supplying an L</accessor> in the column_info hash.
+If a column name beginning with a plus sign ('+col1') is provided, the
+attributes provided will be merged with any existing attributes for the
+column, with the new attributes taking precedence in the case that an
+attribute already exists. Using this without a hashref
+(C<< $source->add_columns(qw/+col1 +col2/) >>) is legal, but useless --
+it does the same thing it would do without the plus.
+
The contents of the column_info are not set in stone. The following
keys are currently recognised/used by DBIx::Class:
my @added;
my $columns = $self->_columns;
while (my $col = shift @cols) {
+ my $column_info = {};
+ if ($col =~ s/^\+//) {
+ $column_info = $self->column_info($col);
+ }
+
# If next entry is { ... } use that for the column info, if not
# use an empty hashref
- my $column_info = ref $cols[0] ? shift(@cols) : {};
+ if (ref $cols[0]) {
+ my $new_info = shift(@cols);
+ %$column_info = (%$column_info, %$new_info);
+ }
push(@added, $col) unless exists $columns->{$col};
$columns->{$col} = $column_info;
}