=head1 SYNOPSIS
my $rs = $schema->resultset('User')->search(registered => 1);
- my @rows = $schema->resultset('Foo')->search(bar => 'baz');
+ my @rows = $schema->resultset('CD')->search(year => 2005);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
=head2 search
- my @obj = $rs->search({ foo => 3 }); # "... WHERE foo = 3"
- my $new_rs = $rs->search({ foo => 3 });
+ my @cds = $rs->search({ year => 2001 }); # "... WHERE year = 2001"
+ my $new_rs = $rs->search({ year => 2005 });
If you need to pass in additional attributes but no additional condition,
call it as C<search(undef, \%attrs);>.
- # "SELECT foo, bar FROM $class_table"
- my @all = $class->search(undef, { columns => [qw/foo bar/] });
+ # "SELECT name, artistid FROM $artist_table"
+ my @all_artists = $schema->resultset('Artist')->search(undef, {
+ columns => [qw/name artistid/],
+ });
=cut
Returns a related resultset for the supplied relationship name.
- $rs = $rs->related_resultset('foo');
+ $artist_rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->related_resultset('Artist');
=cut
=head2 order_by
-Which column(s) to order the results by. This is currently passed through
-directly to SQL, so you can give e.g. C<foo DESC> for a descending order.
+Which column(s) to order the results by. This is currently passed
+through directly to SQL, so you can give e.g. C<year DESC> for a
+descending order on the column `year'.
=head2 columns
Shortcut to include additional columns in the returned results - for example
- { include_columns => ['foo.name'], join => ['foo'] }
+ $schema->resultset('CD')->search(undef, {
+ include_columns => ['artist.name'],
+ join => ['artist']
+ });
-would add a 'name' column to the information passed to object inflation
+would return all CDs and include a 'name' column to the information
+passed to object inflation
=head2 select
column names, or in the case of RDBMS back ends, function or stored procedure
names:
- $rs = $schema->resultset('Foo')->search(
- undef,
- {
- select => [
- 'column_name',
- { count => 'column_to_count' },
- { sum => 'column_to_sum' }
- ]
- }
- );
+ $rs = $schema->resultset('Employee')->search(undef, {
+ select => [
+ 'name',
+ { count => 'employeeid' },
+ { sum => 'salary' }
+ ]
+ });
When you use function/stored procedure names and do not supply an C<as>
attribute, the column names returned are storage-dependent. E.g. MySQL would
-return a column named C<count(column_to_count)> in the above example.
+return a column named C<count(employeeid)> in the above example.
=head2 as
C<select>, usually when C<select> contains one or more function or stored
procedure names:
- $rs = $schema->resultset('Foo')->search(
- undef,
- {
- select => [
- 'column1',
- { count => 'column2' }
- ],
- as => [qw/ column1 column2_count /]
- }
- );
+ $rs = $schema->resultset('Employee')->search(undef, {
+ select => [
+ 'name',
+ { count => 'employeeid' }
+ ],
+ as => ['name', 'employee_count'],
+ });
- my $foo = $rs->first(); # get the first Foo
+ my $employee = $rs->first(); # get the first Employee
If the object against which the search is performed already has an accessor
matching a column name specified in C<as>, the value can be retrieved using
the accessor as normal:
- my $column1 = $foo->column1();
+ my $name = $employee->name();
If on the other hand an accessor does not exist in the object, you need to
use C<get_column> instead:
- my $column2_count = $foo->get_column('column2_count');
+ my $employee_count = $employee->get_column('employee_count');
You can create your own accessors if required - see
L<DBIx::Class::Manual::Cookbook> for details.
If the same join is supplied twice, it will be aliased to <rel>_2 (and
similarly for a third time). For e.g.
- my $rs = $schema->resultset('Artist')->search(
- { 'cds.title' => 'Foo',
- 'cds_2.title' => 'Bar' },
- { join => [ qw/cds cds/ ] });
+ my $rs = $schema->resultset('Artist')->search({
+ 'cds.title' => 'Down to Earth',
+ 'cds_2.title' => 'Popular',
+ }, {
+ join => [ qw/cds cds/ ],
+ });
-will return a set of all artists that have both a cd with title Foo and a cd
-with title Bar.
+will return a set of all artists that have both a cd with title 'Down
+to Earth' and a cd with title 'Popular'.
If you want to fetch related objects from other tables as well, see C<prefetch>
below.