my $fredsbooks = $schema->resultset('Author')->find({ Name => 'Fred' })->books;
Each relationship sets up an accessor method on the
-L<Row|DBIx::Class::Manual::Glossary/"Row"> objects that represent the items
+L<Result|DBIx::Class::Manual::Glossary/"Result"> objects that represent the items
of your table. From L<ResultSet|DBIx::Class::Manual::Glossary/"ResultSet"> objects,
the relationships can be searched using the "search_related" method.
In list context, each returns a list of Result objects for the related class,
All helper methods are called similar to the following template:
- __PACKAGE__->$method_name('relname', 'Foreign::Class', \%cond|\@cond|\&cond?, \%attrs?);
+ __PACKAGE__->$method_name('rel_name', 'Foreign::Class', \%cond|\@cond|\&cond?, \%attrs?);
Both C<cond> and C<attrs> are optional. Pass C<undef> for C<cond> if
you want to use the default value for it, but still want to set C<attrs>.
# To retrieve the plain id if you used the ugly version:
$book->get_column('author_id');
-
-If the relationship is optional -- i.e. the column containing the
-foreign key can be NULL -- then the belongs_to relationship does the
-right thing. Thus, in the example above C<< $obj->author >> would
-return C<undef>. However in this case you would probably want to set
-the L<join_type|DBIx::Class::Relationship::Base/join_type> attribute so that
-a C<LEFT JOIN> is done, which makes complex resultsets involving
-C<join> or C<prefetch> operations work correctly. The modified
-declaration is shown below:
+If some of the foreign key columns are
+L<nullable|DBIx::Class::ResultSource/is_nullable> you probably want to set
+the L<join_type|DBIx::Class::Relationship::Base/join_type> attribute to
+C<left> explicitly so that SQL expressing this relation is composed with
+a C<LEFT JOIN> (as opposed to C<INNER JOIN> which is default for
+L</belongs_to> relationships). This ensures that relationship traversal
+works consistently in all situations. (i.e. resultsets involving
+L<join|DBIx::Class::ResultSet/join> or
+L<prefetch|DBIx::Class::ResultSet/prefetch>).
+The modified declaration is shown below:
# in a Book class (where Author has_many Books)
__PACKAGE__->belongs_to(
{ join_type => 'left' }
);
-
Cascading deletes are off by default on a C<belongs_to>
relationship. To turn them on, pass C<< cascade_delete => 1 >>
in the $attr hashref.
is added to the end of the method name, eg C<$accessor_name_rs()>.
This method works just like the normal accessor, except that it always
returns a resultset, even in list context. The third method, named C<<
-add_to_$relname >>, will also be added to your Row items; this allows
+add_to_$rel_name >>, will also be added to your Row items; this allows
you to insert new related items, using the same mechanism as in
L<DBIx::Class::Relationship::Base/"create_related">.