use strict;
use warnings;
-
+use Scalar::Util qw/blessed/;
use base qw/DBIx::Class::Row/;
-=head1 NAME
+=head1 NAME
-DBIx::Class::InflateColumn - Automatically create objects from column data
+DBIx::Class::InflateColumn - Automatically create references from column data
=head1 SYNOPSIS
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-This component translates column data into objects, i.e. "inflating"
-the column data. It also "deflates" objects into an appropriate format
+This component translates column data into references, i.e. "inflating"
+the column data. It also "deflates" references into an appropriate format
for the database.
It can be used, for example, to automatically convert to and from
-L<DateTime> objects for your date and time fields.
+L<DateTime> objects for your date and time fields. There's a
+conveniece component to actually do that though, try
+L<DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::DateTime>.
+
+It will handle all types of references except scalar references. It
+will not handle scalar values, these are ignored and thus passed
+through to L<SQL::Abstract>. This is to allow setting raw values to
+"just work". Scalar references are passed through to the database to
+deal with, to allow such settings as C< \'year + 1'> and C< \'DEFAULT' >
+to work.
+
+If you want to filter plain scalar values and replace them with
+something else, contribute a filtering component.
=head1 METHODS
=head2 inflate_column
-Instruct L<DBIx::Class> to inflate the given column.
+Instruct L<DBIx::Class> to inflate the given column.
In addition to the column name, you must provide C<inflate> and
C<deflate> methods. The C<inflate> method is called when you access
(Replace L<DateTime::Format::Pg> with the appropriate module for your
database, or consider L<DateTime::Format::DBI>.)
+The coderefs you set for inflate and deflate are called with two parameters,
+the first is the value of the column to be inflated/deflated, the second is the
+row object itself. Thus you can call C<< ->result_source->schema->storage->dbh >> in your inflate/defalte subs, to feed to L<DateTime::Format::DBI>.
+
In this example, calls to an event's C<insert_time> accessor return a
L<DateTime> object. This L<DateTime> object is later "deflated" when
used in the database layer.
sub inflate_column {
my ($self, $col, $attrs) = @_;
- $self->throw_exception("No such column $col to inflate") unless $self->has_column($col);
- $self->throw_exception("inflate_column needs attr hashref") unless ref $attrs eq 'HASH';
+ $self->throw_exception("No such column $col to inflate")
+ unless $self->has_column($col);
+ $self->throw_exception("inflate_column needs attr hashref")
+ unless ref $attrs eq 'HASH';
$self->column_info($col)->{_inflate_info} = $attrs;
- $self->mk_group_accessors('inflated_column' => $col);
+ $self->mk_group_accessors('inflated_column' => [$self->column_info($col)->{accessor} || $col, $col]);
return 1;
}
sub _inflated_column {
my ($self, $col, $value) = @_;
return $value unless defined $value; # NULL is NULL is NULL
- my $info = $self->column_info($col) || $self->throw_exception("No column info for $col");
+ my $info = $self->column_info($col)
+ or $self->throw_exception("No column info for $col");
return $value unless exists $info->{_inflate_info};
my $inflate = $info->{_inflate_info}{inflate};
$self->throw_exception("No inflator for $col") unless defined $inflate;
sub _deflated_column {
my ($self, $col, $value) = @_;
- return $value unless ref $value; # If it's not an object, don't touch it
- my $info = $self->column_info($col) || $self->throw_exception("No column info for $col");
+# return $value unless ref $value && blessed($value); # If it's not an object, don't touch it
+ ## Leave scalar refs (ala SQL::Abstract literal SQL), untouched, deflate all other refs
+ return $value unless (ref $value && ref($value) ne 'SCALAR');
+ my $info = $self->column_info($col) or
+ $self->throw_exception("No column info for $col");
return $value unless exists $info->{_inflate_info};
my $deflate = $info->{_inflate_info}{deflate};
$self->throw_exception("No deflator for $col") unless defined $deflate;
return $deflate->($value, $self);
}
+=head2 get_inflated_column
+
+ my $val = $obj->get_inflated_column($col);
+
+Fetch a column value in its inflated state. This is directly
+analogous to L<DBIx::Class::Row/get_column> in that it only fetches a
+column already retreived from the database, and then inflates it.
+Throws an exception if the column requested is not an inflated column.
+
+=cut
+
sub get_inflated_column {
my ($self, $col) = @_;
- $self->throw_exception("$col is not an inflated column") unless
- exists $self->column_info($col)->{_inflate_info};
-
+ $self->throw_exception("$col is not an inflated column")
+ unless exists $self->column_info($col)->{_inflate_info};
return $self->{_inflated_column}{$col}
if exists $self->{_inflated_column}{$col};
return $self->{_inflated_column}{$col} =
$self->_inflated_column($col, $self->get_column($col));
}
+=head2 set_inflated_column
+
+ my $copy = $obj->set_inflated_column($col => $val);
+
+Sets a column value from an inflated value. This is directly
+analogous to L<DBIx::Class::Row/set_column>.
+
+=cut
+
sub set_inflated_column {
- my ($self, $col, @rest) = @_;
- my $ret = $self->_inflated_column_op('set', $col, @rest);
- return $ret;
+ my ($self, $col, $inflated) = @_;
+ $self->set_column($col, $self->_deflated_column($col, $inflated));
+# if (blessed $inflated) {
+ if (ref $inflated && ref($inflated) ne 'SCALAR') {
+ $self->{_inflated_column}{$col} = $inflated;
+ } else {
+ delete $self->{_inflated_column}{$col};
+ }
+ return $inflated;
}
-sub store_inflated_column {
- my ($self, $col, @rest) = @_;
- my $ret = $self->_inflated_column_op('store', $col, @rest);
- return $ret;
-}
+=head2 store_inflated_column
-sub _inflated_column_op {
- my ($self, $op, $col, $obj) = @_;
- my $meth = "${op}_column";
- unless (ref $obj) {
- delete $self->{_inflated_column}{$col};
- return $self->$meth($col, $obj);
- }
+ my $copy = $obj->store_inflated_column($col => $val);
- my $deflated = $self->_deflated_column($col, $obj);
- # Do this now so we don't store if it's invalid
+Sets a column value from an inflated value without marking the column
+as dirty. This is directly analogous to L<DBIx::Class::Row/store_column>.
- $self->{_inflated_column}{$col} = $obj;
- $self->$meth($col, $deflated);
- return $obj;
-}
+=cut
-sub new {
- my ($class, $attrs, @rest) = @_;
- $attrs ||= {};
- foreach my $key (keys %$attrs) {
- if (ref $attrs->{$key}
- && exists $class->column_info($key)->{_inflate_info}) {
- $attrs->{$key} = $class->_deflated_column($key, $attrs->{$key});
- }
+sub store_inflated_column {
+ my ($self, $col, $inflated) = @_;
+# unless (blessed $inflated) {
+ unless (ref $inflated && ref($inflated) ne 'SCALAR') {
+ delete $self->{_inflated_column}{$col};
+ $self->store_column($col => $inflated);
+ return $inflated;
}
- return $class->next::method($attrs, @rest);
+ delete $self->{_column_data}{$col};
+ return $self->{_inflated_column}{$col} = $inflated;
}
=head1 SEE ALSO
Daniel Westermann-Clark <danieltwc@cpan.org> (documentation)
+Jess Robinson <cpan@desert-island.demon.co.uk>
+
=head1 LICENSE
You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.