7 use base qw/DBIx::Class::Componentised Class::Accessor::Grouped/;
11 $self->mk_group_accessors('inherited', $_[0]);
12 $self->set_inherited(@_) if @_ > 1;
15 sub component_base_class { 'DBIx::Class' }
17 # Always remember to do all digits for the version even if they're 0
18 # i.e. first release of 0.XX *must* be 0.XX000. This avoids fBSD ports
19 # brain damage and presumably various other packaging systems too
21 $VERSION = '0.07999_01';
23 sub MODIFY_CODE_ATTRIBUTES {
24 my ($class,$code,@attrs) = @_;
25 $class->mk_classdata('__attr_cache' => {})
26 unless $class->can('__attr_cache');
27 $class->__attr_cache->{$code} = [@attrs];
33 my $cache = $self->can('__attr_cache') ? $self->__attr_cache : {};
34 my $rest = eval { $self->next::method };
35 return $@ ? $cache : { %$cache, %$rest };
42 DBIx::Class - Extensible and flexible object <-> relational mapper.
46 Create a schema class called DB/Main.pm:
49 use base qw/DBIx::Class::Schema/;
51 __PACKAGE__->load_classes();
55 Create a table class to represent artists, who have many CDs, in DB/Main/Artist.pm:
57 package DB::Main::Artist;
58 use base qw/DBIx::Class/;
60 __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/PK::Auto Core/);
61 __PACKAGE__->table('artist');
62 __PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/ artistid name /);
63 __PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('artistid');
64 __PACKAGE__->has_many(cds => 'DB::Main::CD');
68 A table class to represent a CD, which belongs to an artist, in DB/Main/CD.pm:
71 use base qw/DBIx::Class/;
73 __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/PK::Auto Core/);
74 __PACKAGE__->table('cd');
75 __PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/ cdid artist title year /);
76 __PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('cdid');
77 __PACKAGE__->belongs_to(artist => 'DB::Main::Artist');
81 Then you can use these classes in your application's code:
83 # Connect to your database.
85 my $schema = DB::Main->connect($dbi_dsn, $user, $pass, \%dbi_params);
87 # Query for all artists and put them in an array,
88 # or retrieve them as a result set object.
89 my @all_artists = $schema->resultset('Artist')->all;
90 my $all_artists_rs = $schema->resultset('Artist');
92 # Create a result set to search for artists.
93 # This does not query the DB.
94 my $johns_rs = $schema->resultset('Artist')->search(
95 # Build your WHERE using an SQL::Abstract structure:
96 { name => { like => 'John%' } }
99 # Execute a joined query to get the cds.
100 my @all_john_cds = $johns_rs->search_related('cds')->all;
102 # Fetch only the next row.
103 my $first_john = $johns_rs->next;
105 # Specify ORDER BY on the query.
106 my $first_john_cds_by_title_rs = $first_john->cds(
108 { order_by => 'title' }
111 # Create a result set that will fetch the artist relationship
112 # at the same time as it fetches CDs, using only one query.
113 my $millennium_cds_rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->search(
115 { prefetch => 'artist' }
118 my $cd = $millennium_cds_rs->next; # SELECT ... FROM cds JOIN artists ...
119 my $cd_artist_name = $cd->artist->name; # Already has the data so no query
121 my $new_cd = $schema->resultset('CD')->new({ title => 'Spoon' });
122 $new_cd->artist($cd->artist);
123 $new_cd->insert; # Auto-increment primary key filled in after INSERT
124 $new_cd->title('Fork');
126 $schema->txn_do(sub { $new_cd->update }); # Runs the update in a transaction
128 $millennium_cds_rs->update({ year => 2002 }); # Single-query bulk update
132 This is an SQL to OO mapper with an object API inspired by L<Class::DBI>
133 (and a compatibility layer as a springboard for porting) and a resultset API
134 that allows abstract encapsulation of database operations. It aims to make
135 representing queries in your code as perl-ish as possible while still
136 providing access to as many of the capabilities of the database as possible,
137 including retrieving related records from multiple tables in a single query,
138 JOIN, LEFT JOIN, COUNT, DISTINCT, GROUP BY and HAVING support.
140 DBIx::Class can handle multi-column primary and foreign keys, complex
141 queries and database-level paging, and does its best to only query the
142 database in order to return something you've directly asked for. If a
143 resultset is used as an iterator it only fetches rows off the statement
144 handle as requested in order to minimise memory usage. It has auto-increment
145 support for SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 and is
146 known to be used in production on at least the first four, and is fork-
147 and thread-safe out of the box (although your DBD may not be).
149 This project is still under rapid development, so features added in the
150 latest major release may not work 100% yet -- check the Changes if you run
151 into trouble, and beware of anything explicitly marked EXPERIMENTAL. Failing
152 test cases are *always* welcome and point releases are put out rapidly as
153 bugs are found and fixed.
155 Even so, we do our best to maintain full backwards compatibility for published
156 APIs, since DBIx::Class is used in production in a number of organisations.
157 The test suite is quite substantial, and several developer releases are
158 generally made to CPAN before the -current branch is merged back to trunk for
161 The community can be found via:
163 Mailing list: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class/
165 SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/trunk/DBIx-Class/
167 Wiki: http://dbix-class.shadowcatsystems.co.uk/
169 IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class
171 =head1 WHERE TO GO NEXT
173 L<DBIx::Class::Manual::DocMap> lists each task you might want help on, and
174 the modules where you will find documentation.
178 mst: Matt S. Trout <mst@shadowcatsystems.co.uk>
182 abraxxa: Alexander Hartmaier <alex_hartmaier@hotmail.com>
184 andyg: Andy Grundman <andy@hybridized.org>
188 ash: Ash Berlin <ash@cpan.org>
190 blblack: Brandon L. Black <blblack@gmail.com>
192 bluefeet: Aran Deltac <bluefeet@cpan.org>
194 captainL: Luke Saunders <luke.saunders@gmail.com>
196 castaway: Jess Robinson
198 claco: Christopher H. Laco
202 dkubb: Dan Kubb <dan.kubb-cpan@onautopilot.com>
204 draven: Marcus Ramberg <mramberg@cpan.org>
206 dwc: Daniel Westermann-Clark <danieltwc@cpan.org>
208 dyfrgi: Michael Leuchtenburg <michael@slashhome.org>
210 gphat: Cory G Watson <gphat@cpan.org>
214 jguenther: Justin Guenther <jguenther@cpan.org>
216 konobi: Scott McWhirter
218 LTJake: Brian Cassidy <bricas@cpan.org>
220 nigel: Nigel Metheringham <nigelm@cpan.org>
222 ningu: David Kamholz <dkamholz@cpan.org>
224 Numa: Dan Sully <daniel@cpan.org>
226 paulm: Paul Makepeace
228 penguin: K J Cheetham
230 phaylon: Robert Sedlacek <phaylon@dunkelheit.at>
232 quicksilver: Jules Bean
234 sc_: Just Another Perl Hacker
236 scotty: Scotty Allen <scotty@scottyallen.com>
238 sszabo: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@bigpanda.com>
242 typester: Daisuke Murase <typester@cpan.org>
246 willert: Sebastian Willert <willert@cpan.org>
248 zamolxes: Bogdan Lucaciu <bogdan@wiz.ro>
252 You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.