=head1 SYNOPSIS
-Create a schema class called DB/Main.pm:
+Create a schema class called MyDB/Schema.pm:
- package DB::Main;
+ package MyDB::Schema;
use base qw/DBIx::Class::Schema/;
__PACKAGE__->load_classes();
1;
-Create a table class to represent artists, who have many CDs, in DB/Main/Artist.pm:
+Create a table class to represent artists, who have many CDs, in
+MyDB/Schema/Artist.pm:
- package DB::Main::Artist;
+ package MyDB::Schema::Artist;
use base qw/DBIx::Class/;
- __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/PK::Auto Core/);
+ __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/Core/);
__PACKAGE__->table('artist');
__PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/ artistid name /);
__PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('artistid');
- __PACKAGE__->has_many(cds => 'DB::Main::CD');
+ __PACKAGE__->has_many(cds => 'MyDB::Schema::CD');
1;
-A table class to represent a CD, which belongs to an artist, in DB/Main/CD.pm:
+A table class to represent a CD, which belongs to an artist, in
+MyDB/Schema/CD.pm:
- package DB::Main::CD;
+ package MyDB::Schema::CD;
use base qw/DBIx::Class/;
- __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/PK::Auto Core/);
+ __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/Core/);
__PACKAGE__->table('cd');
- __PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/ cdid artist title year /);
+ __PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/ cdid artistid title year /);
__PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('cdid');
- __PACKAGE__->belongs_to(artist => 'DB::Main::Artist');
+ __PACKAGE__->belongs_to(artist => 'MyDB::Schema::Artist', 'artistid');
1;
Then you can use these classes in your application's code:
# Connect to your database.
- use DB::Main;
- my $schema = DB::Main->connect($dbi_dsn, $user, $pass, \%dbi_params);
+ use MyDB::Schema;
+ my $schema = MyDB::Schema->connect($dbi_dsn, $user, $pass, \%dbi_params);
# Query for all artists and put them in an array,
# or retrieve them as a result set object.
{ order_by => 'title' }
);
- # Create a result set that will fetch the artist relationship
+ # Create a result set that will fetch the artist data
# at the same time as it fetches CDs, using only one query.
my $millennium_cds_rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->search(
{ year => 2000 },
);
my $cd = $millennium_cds_rs->next; # SELECT ... FROM cds JOIN artists ...
- my $cd_artist_name = $cd->artist->name; # Already has the data so no query
+ my $cd_artist_name = $cd->artist->name; # Already has the data so no 2nd query
# new() makes a DBIx::Class::Row object but doesnt insert it into the DB.
# create() is the same as new() then insert().
$schema->txn_do(sub { $new_cd->update }); # Runs the update in a transaction
- $millennium_cds_rs->update({ year => 2002 }); # Single-query bulk update
+ # change the year of all the millennium CDs at once
+ $millennium_cds_rs->update({ year => 2002 });
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This is an SQL to OO mapper with an object API inspired by L<Class::DBI>
-(and a compatibility layer as a springboard for porting) and a resultset API
+(with a compatibility layer as a springboard for porting) and a resultset API
that allows abstract encapsulation of database operations. It aims to make
representing queries in your code as perl-ish as possible while still
providing access to as many of the capabilities of the database as possible,
including retrieving related records from multiple tables in a single query,
-JOIN, LEFT JOIN, COUNT, DISTINCT, GROUP BY and HAVING support.
+JOIN, LEFT JOIN, COUNT, DISTINCT, GROUP BY, ORDER BY and HAVING support.
DBIx::Class can handle multi-column primary and foreign keys, complex
queries and database-level paging, and does its best to only query the