Class::DBI::Loader(3) User Contributed Perl DocumentationClass::DBI::Loader(3)NAMEClass::DBI::Loader - Dynamic definition of Class::DBI sub classes.
SYNOPSIS
use Class::DBI::Loader;
my $loader = Class::DBI::Loader->new(
dsn => "dbi:mysql:dbname",
user => "root",
password => "",
options => { RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 0 },
namespace => "Data",
additional_classes => qw/Class::DBI::AbstractSearch/, # or arrayref
additional_base_classes => qw/My::Stuff/, # or arrayref
left_base_classes => qw/Class::DBI::Sweet/, # or arrayref
constraint => '^foo.*',
relationships => 1,
options => { AutoCommit => 1 },
inflect => { child => 'children' },
require => 1
);
my $class = $loader->find_class('film'); # $class => Data::Film
my $obj = $class->retrieve(1);
use with mod_perl
in your startup.pl
# load all tables
use Class::DBI::Loader;
my $loader = Class::DBI::Loader->new(
dsn => "dbi:mysql:dbname",
user => "root",
password => "",
namespace => "Data",
);
in your web application.
use strict;
# you can use Data::Film directly
my $film = Data::Film->retrieve($id);
DESCRIPTIONClass::DBI::Loader automate the definition of Class::DBI sub-classes.
scan table schemas and setup columns, primary key.
class names are defined by table names and namespace option.
+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| table | namespace | class |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| foo | Data | Data::Foo |
| foo_bar | | FooBar |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+
Class::DBI::Loader supports MySQL, Postgres and SQLite.
See Class::DBI::Loader::Generic.
METHODS
new %args
additional_base_classes
List of additional base classes your table classes will use.
left_base_classes
List of additional base classes, that need to be leftmost, for
example Class::DBI::Sweet (former Catalyst::Model::CDBI::Sweet).
additional_classes
List of additional classes which your table classes will use.
constraint
Only load tables matching regex.
exclude
Exclude tables matching regex.
debug
Enable debug messages.
dsn DBI Data Source Name.
namespace
Namespace under which your table classes will be initialized.
password
Password.
options
Optional hashref to specify DBI connect options
relationships
Try to automatically detect/setup has_a and has_many relationships.
inflect
An hashref, which contains exceptions to Lingua::EN::Inflect::PL().
Useful for foreign language column names.
user
Username.
require
Attempt to require the dynamically defined module, so that
extensions defined in files. By default errors from imported
modules are suppressed. When you want to debug, use require_warn.
require_warn
Warn of import errors when requiring modules.
AUTHOR
Daisuke Maki "dmaki@cpan.org"
AUTHOR EMERITUS
Sebastian Riedel, "sri@oook.de" IKEBE Tomohiro, "ikebe@edge.co.jp"
THANK YOU
Adam Anderson, Andy Grundman, Autrijus Tang, Dan Kubb, David Naughton,
Randal Schwartz, Simon Flack and all the others who've helped.
LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
Class::DBI, Class::DBI::mysql, Class::DBI::Pg, Class::DBI::SQLite,
Class::DBI::Loader::Generic, Class::DBI::Loader::mysql,
Class::DBI::Loader::Pg, Class::DBI::Loader::SQLite
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