Merge 'trunk' into 'versioning'

[dbsrgits/DBIx-Class.git] / lib / DBIx / Class / Row.pm

diff --git a/lib/DBIx/Class/Row.pm b/lib/DBIx/Class/Row.pm
index 0ba7243..d58d957 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/DBIx/Class/Row.pm
+++ b/lib/DBIx/Class/Row.pm
@@ -295,6 +295,21 @@ C<set_inflated_columns>, which might edit it in place, so dont rely on it being
 the same after a call to C<update>.  If you need to preserve the hashref, it is
 sufficient to pass a shallow copy to C<update>, e.g. ( { %{ $href } } )
 
+If the values passed or any of the column values set on the object
+contain scalar references, eg:
+
+  $obj->last_modified(\'NOW()');
+  # OR
+  $obj->update({ last_modified => \'NOW()' });
+
+The update will pass the values verbatim into SQL. (See
+L<SQL::Abstract> docs).  The values in your Row object will NOT change
+as a result of the update call, if you want the object to be updated
+with the actual values from the database, call L</discard_changes>
+after the update.
+
+  $obj->update()->discard_changes();
+
 =cut
 
 sub update {
@@ -436,6 +451,20 @@ sub get_dirty_columns {
            keys %{$self->{_dirty_columns}};
 }
 
+=head2 make_column_dirty
+
+Marks a column dirty regardless if it has really changed.  Throws an
+exception if the column does not exist.
+
+=cut
+sub make_column_dirty {
+  my ($self, $column) = @_;
+
+  $self->throw_exception( "No such column '${column}'" )
+    unless exists $self->{_column_data}{$column} || $self->has_column($column);
+  $self->{_dirty_columns}{$column} = 1;
+}
+
 =head2 get_inflated_columns
 
   my %inflated_data = $obj->get_inflated_columns;
@@ -547,7 +576,9 @@ sub set_inflated_columns {
 
   my $copy = $orig->copy({ change => $to, ... });
 
-Inserts a new row with the specified changes.
+Inserts a new row with the specified changes. If the row has related
+objects in a C<has_many> then those objects may be copied too depending
+on the C<cascade_copy> relationship attribute.
 
 =cut