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package DBIx::Class::Schema::ResultSetAccessors;

use strict;
use warnings;

use String::CamelCase;
use Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase;
use Sub::Name 'subname';

sub register_source {
    my $self = shift;
    my $moniker = $_[0];
    my $next = $self->next::method(@_);

    my $schema = ref($self) || $self;
    my $accessor_name = exists $self->resultset_accessor_map->{$moniker}
        ? $self->resultset_accessor_map->{$moniker}
        : $self->resultset_accessor_name($moniker);
    if ($schema->can($accessor_name)) {
        $self->throw_exception(
            "Can't create ResultSet accessor '$accessor_name'. " .
            "Schema method with the same name already exists. " .
            "Try overloading the name in resultset_accessor_map."
        );
    }

    {
        no strict 'refs';
        no warnings 'redefine';
        *{"${schema}::${accessor_name}"} = subname "${schema}::${accessor_name}"
            => sub { shift->resultset($moniker) };
    }
    
    return $next;
}

sub resultset_accessor_map {
    return {};
}

sub resultset_accessor_name {
    my ($self, $moniker) = @_;

    return $self->pluralize_resultset_accessor_name(
        String::CamelCase::decamelize($moniker)
    );
}

sub pluralize_resultset_accessor_name {
    my $self = shift;
    my $original = shift or return;

    return join q{_}, split /\s+/,
        Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::to_PL(join q{ }, split /_/, $original);
}

1; # eof

__END__

=head1 NAME

DBIx::Class::Schema::ResultSetAccessors - Short hand ResultSet Accessors

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  use MyApp::Schema;
  my $schema = MyApp::Schema->connect(...);
  
  @artists = $schema->artists->all; # same as $schema->resultset('Artist')->all;

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Creates short hand accessor methods for each ResultSet. Accessor names are 
properly converted into lowercase and pluralized. E.g.

 LinerNote -> liner_notes
 Artist    -> artists
 CD        -> cds

=head1 METHODS

=head2 resultset_accessor_map

Sometimes you will not want to, or will not be able to use an auto-generated
accessor name. A common case would be when the accessor name conflicts with a
built in DBIx::Class::Schema method. E.g. if you name your Result class
"Source", a pluralized version of this would be "sources", which is a built in
method.

This method allows you to redefine the names as you wish. Overload this method
in your schema class and return a hashref map of Source => accessor names. E.g.:

 # in your MyApp::Schema class
 sub resultset_accessor_map {
    {
        Source => 'my_source',
        Artist => 'my_artists',
    }
 }
 
 # later in your code
 $schema->my_source->all;

=head2 resultset_accessor_name($moniker)

This method is used to generate the accessor names. If you wish to create your
own logic for generating the name, you can overload this method. The method
takes a moniker (aka Source name) as a parameter and returns the accessor name.

Internally it simply uses L<String::CamelCase> to decamelize the name and pass
it to L</pluralize_resultset_accessor_name> method.

=head2 pluralize_resultset_accessor_name($decamelized_name)

If you only wish to overload the pluralization of the accessor name, in case you
want to add support for a language other than English, then you might only want
to overload this method. The method accepts decamelized name (e.g. liner_note)
and returns properly pluralized version of it.

=head1 SEE ALSO

=over 4

=item L<DBIx::Class>

=item L<String::CamelCase>

=item L<Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase>

=back

=head1 AUTHOR

 Roman F.
 romanf@cpan.org

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2011 Roman F.

This program is free software; you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the
LICENSE file included with this module.

=cut