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18fca96a 1package DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader;
a78e3fed 2
3use strict;
a4a19f3c 4use warnings;
8a6b44ef 5use base qw/DBIx::Class::Schema/;
6use base qw/Class::Data::Accessor/;
457eb8a6 7use Carp;
8use UNIVERSAL::require;
996be9ee 9use Class::C3;
10use Data::Dump qw/ dump /;
3980d69c 11
a4a19f3c 12# Always remember to do all digits for the version even if they're 0
13# i.e. first release of 0.XX *must* be 0.XX000. This avoids fBSD ports
14# brain damage and presumably various other packaging systems too
996be9ee 15our $VERSION = '0.02999_10';
457eb8a6 16
996be9ee 17__PACKAGE__->mk_classaccessor('dump_to_dir');
457eb8a6 18__PACKAGE__->mk_classaccessor('loader');
996be9ee 19__PACKAGE__->mk_classaccessor('_loader_args');
a78e3fed 20
21=head1 NAME
22
18fca96a 23DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader - Dynamic definition of a DBIx::Class::Schema
a78e3fed 24
25=head1 SYNOPSIS
26
a4a19f3c 27 package My::Schema;
28 use base qw/DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader/;
a78e3fed 29
996be9ee 30 __PACKAGE__->loader_options(
31 relationships => 1,
32 constraint => '^foo.*',
33 # debug => 1,
a78e3fed 34 );
af6c2665 35
a4a19f3c 36 # in seperate application code ...
a78e3fed 37
a4a19f3c 38 use My::Schema;
a78e3fed 39
a4a19f3c 40 my $schema1 = My::Schema->connect( $dsn, $user, $password, $attrs);
41 # -or-
996be9ee 42 my $schema1 = "My::Schema"; $schema1->connection(as above);
43=head1 DESCRIPTION
fbd83464 44DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader automates the definition of a
996be9ee 45L<DBIx::Class::Schema> by scanning database table definitions and
46setting up the columns and primary keys.
a78e3fed 47
996be9ee 48DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader currently supports DBI for MySQL,
49Postgres, SQLite and DB2.
a78e3fed 50
996be9ee 51See L<DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader::DBI::Writing> for notes on writing
52your own vendor-specific subclass for an unsupported DBD driver.
a78e3fed 53
996be9ee 54This module requires L<DBIx::Class> 0.06 or later, and obsoletes
55the older L<DBIx::Class::Loader>.
89ecd854 56
996be9ee 57This module is designed more to get you up and running quickly against
58an existing database, or to be effective for simple situations, rather
59than to be what you use in the long term for a complex database/project.
89ecd854 60
61That being said, transitioning your code from a Schema generated by this
62module to one that doesn't use this module should be straightforward and
996be9ee 63painless (as long as you're not using any methods that are now deprecated
64in this document), so don't shy away from it just for fears of the
65transition down the road.
89ecd854 66
a78e3fed 67=head1 METHODS
68
996be9ee 69=head2 loader_options
a78e3fed 70
996be9ee 71Example in Synopsis above demonstrates a few common arguments. For
72detailed information on all of the arguments, most of which are
73only useful in fairly complex scenarios, see the
74L<DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader::Base> documentation.
a78e3fed 75
996be9ee 76This method is *required*, for backwards compatibility reasons. If
77you do not wish to change any options, just call it with an empty
78argument list during schema class initialization.
a78e3fed 79
996be9ee 80=cut
1031d4f6 81
996be9ee 82sub loader_options {
83 my $self = shift;
84
85 my %args;
86 if(ref $_[0] eq 'HASH') {
87 %args = %{$_[0]};
1031d4f6 88 }
89 else {
996be9ee 90 %args = @_;
1031d4f6 91 }
92
996be9ee 93 my $class = ref $self || $self;
94 $args{schema} = $self;
95 $args{schema_class} = $class;
96 $self->_loader_args(\%args);
97 $self->_invoke_loader if $self->storage && !$class->loader;
98
99 $self;
100}
101
102sub _invoke_loader {
103 my $self = shift;
104 my $class = ref $self || $self;
105
106 $self->_loader_args->{dump_directory} ||= $self->dump_to_dir;
af6c2665 107
996be9ee 108 # XXX this only works for relative storage_type, like ::DBI ...
109 my $impl = "DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader" . $self->storage_type;
a78e3fed 110 $impl->require or
996be9ee 111 croak qq/Could not load storage_type loader "$impl": / .
3385ac62 112 qq/"$UNIVERSAL::require::ERROR"/;
af6c2665 113
996be9ee 114 # XXX in the future when we get rid of ->loader, the next two
115 # lines can be replaced by "$impl->new(%{$self->_loader_args})->load;"
116 $class->loader($impl->new(%{$self->_loader_args}));
2a4b8262 117 $class->loader->load;
996be9ee 118
119
120 $self;
121}
122
123=head2 connection
124
125See L<DBIx::Class::Schema>. Our local override here is to
126hook in the main functionality of the loader, which occurs at the time
127the connection is specified for a given schema class/object.
128
129=cut
130
131sub connection {
132 my $self = shift->next::method(@_);
133
134 my $class = ref $self || $self;
135 $self->_invoke_loader if $self->_loader_args && !$class->loader;
136
137 return $self;
138}
139
140=head2 clone
141
142See L<DBIx::Class::Schema>. Our local override here is to
143make sure cloned schemas can still be loaded at runtime by
144copying and altering a few things here.
145
146=cut
147
148sub clone {
149 my $self = shift;
150
151 my $clone = $self->next::method(@_);
152
153 $clone->_loader_args($self->_loader_args);
154 $clone->_loader_args->{schema} = $clone;
155
156 $clone;
157}
158
159=head2 dump_to_dir
160
161Argument: directory name.
162
163Calling this as a class method on either L<DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader>
164or any derived schema class will cause all affected schemas to dump
165manual versions of themselves to the named directory when they are
166loaded. In order to be effective, this must be set before defining a
167connection on this schema class or any derived object (as the loading
168happens at connection time, and only once per class).
169
170See L<DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader::Base/dump_directory> for more
171details on the dumping mechanism.
172
173This can also be set at module import time via the import option
174C<dump_to_dir:/foo/bar> to L<DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader>, where
175C</foo/bar> is the target directory.
176
177Examples:
178
179 # My::Schema isa DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader, and has connection info
180 # hardcoded in the class itself:
181 perl -MDBIx::Class::Schema::Loader=dump_to_dir:/foo/bar -MMy::Schema -e1
182
183 # Same, but no hard-coded connection, so we must provide one:
184 perl -MDBIx::Class::Schema::Loader=dump_to_dir:/foo/bar -MMy::Schema -e 'My::Schema->connection("dbi:Pg:dbname=foo", ...)'
185
186 # Or as a class method, as long as you get it done *before* defining a
187 # connection on this schema class or any derived object:
188 use My::Schema;
189 My::Schema->dump_to_dir('/foo/bar');
190 My::Schema->connection(........);
191
192 # Or as a class method on the DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader itself, which affects all
193 # derived schemas
194 use My::Schema;
195 use My::OtherSchema;
196 DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader->dump_to_dir('/foo/bar');
197 My::Schema->connection(.......);
198 My::OtherSchema->connection(.......);
199
200 # Another alternative to the above:
201 use DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader qw| dump_to_dir:/foo/bar |;
202 use My::Schema;
203 use My::OtherSchema;
204 My::Schema->connection(.......);
205 My::OtherSchema->connection(.......);
206
207=cut
208
209sub import {
210 my $self = shift;
211 return if !@_;
212 foreach my $opt (@_) {
213 if($opt =~ m{^dump_to_dir:(.*)$}) {
214 $self->dump_to_dir($1)
215 }
216 elsif($opt eq 'make_schema_at') {
217 no strict 'refs';
218 my $cpkg = (caller)[0];
219 *{"${cpkg}::make_schema_at"} = \&make_schema_at;
220 }
221 }
222}
223
224=head2 make_schema_at
225
226This simple function allows one to create a Loader-based schema
227in-memory on the fly without any on-disk class files of any
228kind. When used with the C<dump_directory> option, you can
229use this to generate a rought draft manual schema from a dsn
230without the intermediate step of creating a physical Loader-based
231schema class.
232
233This function can be exported/imported by the normal means, as
234illustrated in these Examples:
235
236 # Simple example...
237 use DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader qw/ make_schema_at /;
238 make_schema_at(
239 'New::Schema::Name',
240 { relationships => 1, debug => 1 },
241 [ 'dbi:Pg:dbname="foo"','postgres' ],
242 );
243
244 # Complex: dump loaded schema to disk, all from the commandline:
245 perl -MDBIx::Class::Schema::Loader=make_schema_at,dump_to_dir:./lib -e 'make_schema_at("New::Schema::Name", { relationships => 1 }, [ 'dbi:Pg:dbname="foo"','postgres' ])'
246
247 # Same, but inside a script, and using a different way to specify the
248 # dump directory:
249 use DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader qw/ make_schema_at /;
250 make_schema_at(
251 'New::Schema::Name',
252 { relationships => 1, debug => 1, dump_directory => './lib' },
253 [ 'dbi:Pg:dbname="foo"','postgres' ],
254 );
255
256=cut
257
258sub make_schema_at {
259 my ($target, $opts, $connect_info) = @_;
260
261 my $opts_dumped = dump($opts);
262 my $cinfo_dumped = dump(@$connect_info);
263 eval qq|
264 package $target;
265 use base qw/DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader/;
266 __PACKAGE__->loader_options($opts_dumped);
267 __PACKAGE__->connection($cinfo_dumped);
268 |;
269}
270
271=head1 EXAMPLE
272
273Using the example in L<DBIx::Class::Manual::ExampleSchema> as a basis
274replace the DB::Main with the following code:
275
276 package DB::Main;
277
278 use base qw/DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader/;
279
280 __PACKAGE__->loader_options(
281 relationships => 1,
282 debug => 1,
283 );
284 __PACKAGE__->connection('dbi:SQLite:example.db');
285
286 1;
287
288and remove the Main directory tree (optional). Every thing else
289should work the same
290
291=head1 DEPRECATED METHODS
292
293You don't need to read anything in this section unless you're upgrading
294code that was written against pre-0.03 versions of this module. This
295version is intended to be backwards-compatible with pre-0.03 code, but
296will issue warnings about your usage of deprecated features/methods.
297
298=head2 load_from_connection
299
300This deprecated method is now roughly an alias for L</loader_options>.
301
302In the past it was a common idiom to invoke this method
303after defining a connection on the schema class. That usage is now
304deprecated. The correct way to do things from now forward is to
305always do C<loader_options> on the class before C<connect> or
306C<connection> is invoked on the class or any derived object.
307
308This method *will* dissappear in a future version.
309
310For now, using this method will invoke the legacy behavior for
311backwards compatibility, and merely emit a warning about upgrading
312your code.
313
314It also reverts the default inflection scheme to
315use L<Lingua::EN::Inflect> just like pre-0.03 versions of this
316module did.
317
318You can force these legacy inflections with the
319option C<legacy_default_inflections>, even after switch over
320to the preferred L</loader_options> way of doing things.
321
322See the source of this method for more details.
323
324=cut
325
326sub load_from_connection {
327 my ($self, %args) = @_;
328 warn 'load_from_connection deprecated, please [re-]read the'
329 . ' [new] DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader documentation';
330
331 # Support the old connect_info / dsn / etc args...
332 $args{connect_info} = [
333 delete $args{dsn},
334 delete $args{user},
335 delete $args{password},
336 delete $args{options},
337 ] if $args{dsn};
338
339 $self->connection(@{delete $args{connect_info}})
340 if $args{connect_info};
341
342 $self->loader_options('legacy_default_inflections' => 1, %args);
a78e3fed 343}
344
457eb8a6 345=head2 loader
346
347This is an accessor in the generated Schema class for accessing
996be9ee 348the L<DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader::Base> -based loader object
457eb8a6 349that was used during construction. See the
996be9ee 350L<DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader::Base> docs for more information
457eb8a6 351on the available loader methods there.
352
996be9ee 353This accessor is deprecated. Do not use it. Anything you can
354get from C<loader>, you can get via the normal L<DBIx::Class::Schema>
355methods, and your code will be more robust and forward-thinking
356for doing so.
357
358If you're already using C<loader> in your code, make an effort
359to get rid of it. If you think you've found a situation where it
360is neccesary, let me know and we'll see what we can do to remedy
361that situation.
362
363In some future version, this accessor *will* disappear. It was
364apparently quite a design/API mistake to ever have exposed it to
365user-land in the first place, all things considered.
366
367=head1 KNOWN ISSUES
368
369=head2 Multiple Database Schemas
370
371Currently the loader is limited to working within a single schema
372(using the database vendors' definition of "schema"). If you
373have a multi-schema database with inter-schema relationships (which
374is easy to do in Postgres or DB2 for instance), you only get to
375automatically load the tables of one schema, and any relationships
376to tables in other schemas will be silently ignored.
377
378At some point in the future, an intelligent way around this might be
379devised, probably by allowing the C<db_schema> option to be an
380arrayref of schemas to load, or perhaps even offering schema
381constraint/exclusion options just like the table ones.
89ecd854 382
996be9ee 383In "normal" L<DBIx::Class::Schema> usage, manually-defined
384source classes and relationships have no problems crossing vendor schemas.
89ecd854 385
a78e3fed 386=head1 AUTHOR
387
f654c972 388Brandon Black, C<blblack@gmail.com>
fbd83464 389
8a6b44ef 390Based on L<DBIx::Class::Loader> by Sebastian Riedel
a78e3fed 391
392Based upon the work of IKEBE Tomohiro
393
394=head1 THANK YOU
395
396Adam Anderson, Andy Grundman, Autrijus Tang, Dan Kubb, David Naughton,
996be9ee 397Randal Schwartz, Simon Flack, Matt S Trout, everyone on #dbix-class, and
398all the others who've helped.
a78e3fed 399
400=head1 LICENSE
401
402This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
403the same terms as Perl itself.
404
405=head1 SEE ALSO
406
996be9ee 407L<DBIx::Class>, L<DBIx::Class::Manual::ExampleSchema>
a78e3fed 408
409=cut
410
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