More information about the various types of relationships available, and
how you can design your own, can be found in L<DBIx::Class::Relationship>.
-
=head2 Using L<DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader>
This is an external module, and not part of the L<DBIx::Class>
package My::Schema;
use base qw/DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader/;
- __PACKAGE__->load_from_connection(
- connect_info = [ 'dbi:SQLite:/home/me/myapp/my.db' ]
- );
+ __PACKAGE__->loader_options( relationships => 1 );
1;
-This should be equivalent to the manual setup in the section above.
+The actual autoloading process will occur when you create a connected
+instance of your schema below.
+
L<DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader> takes lots of other options. For more
information, consult its documentation.
=head2 Connecting
-L<DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader> already contains the connection info for the
-database, so to get started all you need to do is create an instance of your
-class:
-
- my $schema = My::Schema->new();
-
-To connect to your manually created Schema, you also need to provide the
-connection details:
+To connect to your Schema, you also need to provide the connection details.
+The arguments are the same as you would use for L<DBI/connect>:
my $schema = My::Schema->connect('dbi:SQLite:/home/me/myapp/my.db');
Note that L<DBIx::Class::Schema> does not cache connections for you. If you
use multiple connections, you need to do this manually.
-To execute some sql statements on every connect you can pass them to your schema after the connect:
+To execute some sql statements on every connect you can add them as an option
+in a special fifth argument to connect, like so:
+
+ my $another_schema = My::Schema->connect(
+ $dsn,
+ $user,
+ $password,
+ $attrs,
+ { on_connect_do => \@on_connect_sql_statments }
+ );
- $schema->storage->on_connect_do(\@on_connect_sql_statments);
+For more information about this and other special C<connect()>-time options,
+see L<DBIx::Class::Schema::Storage::DBI/connect_info>.
=head2 Basic usage