1 package DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::DateTime;
5 use base qw/DBIx::Class/;
9 DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::DateTime - Auto-create DateTime objects from datetime columns.
13 Load this component and then declare one or more
14 columns to be of the datetime datatype.
17 __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/InflateColumn::DateTime/);
18 __PACKAGE__->add_columns(
19 starts_when => { data_type => 'datetime' }
22 Then you can treat the specified column as a L<DateTime> object.
24 print "This event starts the month of ".
25 $event->starts_when->month_name();
29 This module figures out the type of DateTime::Format::* class to
30 inflate/deflate with based on the type of DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::*
31 that you are using. If you switch from one database to a different
32 one your code will continue to work without modification.
36 __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/InflateColumn/);
38 __PACKAGE__->mk_group_accessors('simple' => '__datetime_parser');
40 =head2 register_column
42 Chains with the L<DBIx::Class::Row/register_column> method, and sets
43 up datetime columns appropriately. This would not normally be
44 directly called by end users.
49 my ($self, $column, $info, @rest) = @_;
50 $self->next::method($column, $info, @rest);
51 if ($info->{data_type} =~ /^datetime$/i) {
52 $self->inflate_column(
56 my ($value, $obj) = @_;
57 $obj->_datetime_parser->parse_datetime($value);
60 my ($value, $obj) = @_;
61 $obj->_datetime_parser->format_datetime($value);
68 sub _datetime_parser {
70 if (my $parser = $self->__datetime_parser) {
73 my $parser = $self->result_source->storage->datetime_parser(@_);
74 return $self->__datetime_parser($parser);
84 =item More information about the add_columns method, and column metadata,
85 can be found in the documentation for L<DBIx::Class::ResultSource>.
91 Matt S. Trout <mst@shadowcatsystems.co.uk>
95 Aran Deltac <bluefeet@cpan.org>
99 You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.