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+package DBIx::Class::ResultClass::HashRefInflator;
+
+# $me is the hashref of cols/data from the immediate resultsource
+# $rest is a deep hashref of all the data from the prefetched
+# related sources.
+
+sub mk_hash {
+ my ($me, $rest) = @_;
+
+ # to avoid emtpy has_many rels contain one empty hashref
+ return if (not keys %$me);
+
+ return { %$me,
+ map { ($_ => ref($rest->{$_}[0]) eq 'ARRAY' ? [ map { mk_hash(@$_) } @{$rest->{$_}} ] : mk_hash(@{$rest->{$_}}) ) } keys %$rest
+ };
+}
+
+sub inflate_result {
+ my ($self, $source, $me, $prefetch) = @_;
+
+ return mk_hash($me, $prefetch);
+}
+
+1;
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+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use Test::More qw(no_plan);
+use lib qw(t/lib);
+use DBICTest;
+use DBIx::Class::ResultClass::HashRefInflator;
+my $schema = DBICTest->init_schema();
+
+
+# Under some versions of SQLite if the $rs is left hanging around it will lock
+# So we create a scope here cos I'm lazy
+{
+ my $rs = $schema->resultset('CD');
+
+ # get the defined columns
+ my @dbic_cols = sort $rs->result_source->columns;
+
+ # use the hashref inflator class as result class
+ $rs->result_class('DBIx::Class::ResultClass::HashRefInflator');
+
+ # fetch first record
+ my $datahashref1 = $rs->first;
+
+ my @hashref_cols = sort keys %$datahashref1;
+
+ is_deeply( \@dbic_cols, \@hashref_cols, 'returned columns' );
+}
+
+
+sub check_cols_of {
+ my ($dbic_obj, $datahashref) = @_;
+
+ foreach my $col (keys %$datahashref) {
+ # plain column
+ if (not ref ($datahashref->{$col}) ) {
+ is ($datahashref->{$col}, $dbic_obj->get_column($col), 'same value');
+ }
+ # related table entry (belongs_to)
+ elsif (ref ($datahashref->{$col}) eq 'HASH') {
+ check_cols_of($dbic_obj->$col, $datahashref->{$col});
+ }
+ # multiple related entries (has_many)
+ elsif (ref ($datahashref->{$col}) eq 'ARRAY') {
+ my @dbic_reltable = $dbic_obj->$col;
+ my @hashref_reltable = @{$datahashref->{$col}};
+
+ is (scalar @hashref_reltable, scalar @dbic_reltable, 'number of related entries');
+
+ # for my $index (0..scalar @hashref_reltable) {
+ for my $index (0..scalar @dbic_reltable) {
+ my $dbic_reltable_obj = $dbic_reltable[$index];
+ my $hashref_reltable_entry = $hashref_reltable[$index];
+
+ check_cols_of($dbic_reltable_obj, $hashref_reltable_entry);
+ }
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+# create a cd without tracks for testing empty has_many relationship
+$schema->resultset('CD')->create({ title => 'Silence is golden', artist => 3, year => 2006 });
+
+# order_by to ensure both resultsets have the rows in the same order
+my $rs_dbic = $schema->resultset('CD')->search(undef,
+ {
+ prefetch => [ qw/ artist tracks / ],
+ order_by => [ 'me.cdid', 'tracks.position' ],
+ }
+);
+my $rs_hashrefinf = $schema->resultset('CD')->search(undef,
+ {
+ prefetch => [ qw/ artist tracks / ],
+ order_by => [ 'me.cdid', 'tracks.position' ],
+ }
+);
+$rs_hashrefinf->result_class('DBIx::Class::ResultClass::HashRefInflator');
+
+my @dbic = $rs_dbic->all;
+my @hashrefinf = $rs_hashrefinf->all;
+
+for my $index (0..scalar @hashrefinf) {
+ my $dbic_obj = $dbic[$index];
+ my $datahashref = $hashrefinf[$index];
+
+ check_cols_of($dbic_obj, $datahashref);
+}