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-rw-r--r--LedgerSMB/DBObject.pm8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/LedgerSMB/DBObject.pm b/LedgerSMB/DBObject.pm
index 4c96c82e..3451d823 100644
--- a/LedgerSMB/DBObject.pm
+++ b/LedgerSMB/DBObject.pm
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ this way as is any information that is needed.
Provides the basic mapping of parameters to the SQL stored procedure function
arguments.
+=item __validate__ is called on every new() invocation. It is blank in this
+module but can be overridden in decendant modules.
+
=back
=head1 Copyright (C) 2007, The LedgerSMB core team.
@@ -54,6 +57,8 @@ sub AUTOLOAD {
sub DESTROY {}
+sub __validate__ {}
+
sub new {
my $class = shift @_;
my %args = (ref($_[0]) eq 'HASH')? %{$_[0]}: @_;
@@ -83,7 +88,8 @@ sub new {
else {
$self->merge($base);
}
- $self;
+ $self->__validate__();
+ return $self;
}
sub set_ordering {