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64 <h1>DBIx::Class Introduction</h1>
65 <h2>YAPC::NA 2010</h2>
66 </div>
67</div>
68
69<div class="presentation">
70
71 <div class="slide">
72 <h1>DBIX::Class (aka DBIC)</h1>
73 <h3>for (advanced) beginners</h3>
0cffcad7 74 </div>
75
76 <div class="slide">
77 <h1>Authors</h1>
78 <h4>Originally Leo Lapworth @ LPW 2009</h4>
79 <h4>Matthew S. Trout</h4>
0cffcad7 80 <h4>Justin D. Hunter</h4>
5cac74c7 81 <h4>Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt</h4>
52d980cb 82 </div>
83
84 <div class="slide">
85 <h1>assumptions</h1>
86 <p>You know a little about Perl and using objects</p>
87 <p>You know a little bit about databases and using foreign keys</p>
0cffcad7 88 <div class="notes">
89 <ul>
90 <li>How many people have designed a database with Foreign Keys?</li>
91 <li>How many people have used any ORM?<ul>
92 <li>In Perl?<ul>
93 <li>DBIC?</li>
94 <li> Class::DBI? </li>
95 <li> Rose::DB? </li>
96 <li> Fey? </li>
97 <li> Others? </li>
98 </ul></li>
99 <li>AR? </li>
100 <li> DataMapper? </li>
101 <li>(N)Hibernate?</li>
102 </ul></li>
103 </ul>
104 </div>
52d980cb 105 </div>
106
107 <div class="slide">
108 <h1>DBIx::Class?</h1>
109 <ul>
110 <li>ORM (object relational mapper)</li>
111 <li>SQL &lt;-&gt; OO (using objects instead of SQL)</li>
112 <li>Simple, powerful, complex, fab and confusing</li>
113 <li>There are many ORMs, DBIx::Class just happens to be the best in Perl (personal opinion)</li>
114 </ul>
115 </div>
116
117 <div class="slide">
52d980cb 118 <h1>point of note</h1>
5cac74c7 119 <p><em>"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first
120 place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible,
121 you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian
122 W. Kernighan</em></p>
52d980cb 123
5cac74c7 124 <p>This talk is about making it easy so we are less likely to get
125 confused</p>
52d980cb 126 </div>
127
128 <div class="slide">
5cac74c7 129 <h1>Examples Table Setup</h1>
52d980cb 130 <ul>
131 <li>Authors</li>
132 <li>Books</li>
133 </ul>
5cac74c7 134 <em>MySQL not recommended</em>
52d980cb 135 </div>
136
137 <div class="slide">
138 <h1>authors table</h1>
139<pre>CREATE TABLE authors(
140 id int(8) primary key auto_increment,
141 name varchar(255)
142) engine = InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;</pre>
143 </div>
144
145 <div class="slide">
146 <h1>tips</h1>
147 <p>Name tables as simple plurals (<strong>add an S</strong>) - makes relationships easier to understand</p>
52d980cb 148 <p>Use a character set (<strong>UTF8</strong>) from the start (for international characters)</p>
149 </div>
150
151 <div class="slide">
152 <h1>authors table</h1>
153<pre>CREATE TABLE author<strong>s</strong>(
154 id int(8) primary key auto_increment,
155 name varchar(255)
156) engine = <strong>InnoDB</strong> DEFAULT CHARSET=<strong>utf8</strong>;</pre>
157 </div>
158
159 <div class="slide">
160 <h1>books table</h1>
161<pre>CREATE TABLE books(
5cac74c7 162 id int(8) primary key auto_increment,
163 title varchar(255),
164 author_id int(8),foreign key (author)
52d980cb 165 references authors(id)
166) engine = InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;</pre>
167 </div>
168
169
170 <div class="slide">
171 <h1>tips</h1>
172 <p>Name link fields as singular</p>
5cac74c7 173 <p>Ensure foreign key is the same type and size in both tables</p>
52d980cb 174 </div>
175
176 <div class="slide">
177 <h1>books table</h1>
178<pre>CREATE TABLE books(
5cac74c7 179 id int(8) primary key auto_increment,
180 title varchar(255),
181 author_id <strong>int(8)</strong>,<strong>foreign key (<em>author</em>)</strong>
52d980cb 182 <strong>references <em>authors(id)</em></strong>
183) engine = InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;</pre>
184 </div>
185
186 <div class="slide">
187 <h1>CRUD compared</h1>
188 <ul>
189 <li><strong>C</strong> - Create</li>
190 <li><strong>R</strong> - Read</li>
191 <li><strong>U</strong> - Update</li>
192 <li><strong>D</strong> - Delete</li>
193 </ul>
194 </div>
195
196 <div class="slide">
197 <h1>Manual (SQL)</h1>
198 </div>
199
200 <div class="slide">
5cac74c7 201 <h1>SQL: Create</h1>
52d980cb 202<pre>my $sth = $dbh-&gt;prepare('
203 INSERT INTO books
204 (title, author)
205 values (?,?)
206');
207
208$sth-&gt;execute(
209 'A book title', $author_id
210);</pre>
211 </div>
212
213 <div class="slide">
5cac74c7 214 <h1>SQL: Read</h1>
52d980cb 215<pre>my $sth = $dbh-&gt;prepare('
216 SELECT title,
217 authors.name as author_name
218 FROM books, authors
219 WHERE books.author = authors.id
220');</pre>
221 </div>
222
223 <div class="slide">
5cac74c7 224 <h1>SQL: Read</h1>
52d980cb 225<pre>while( my $book = $sth-&gt;fetchrow_hashref() ) {
226 print 'Author of '
227 . $book-&gt;{title}
228 . ' is '
229 . $book-&gt;{author_name}
230 . "\n";
231}</pre>
232 </div>
233
234 <div class="slide">
5cac74c7 235 <h1>SQL: Update</h1>
52d980cb 236<pre>my $update = $dbh-&gt;prepare('
237 UPDATE books
238 SET title = ?
239 WHERE id = ?
240');
241
242$update-&gt;execute(
243 'New title',<strong>$book_id</strong>
244);</pre>
245 </div>
246
247 <div class="slide">
5cac74c7 248 <h1>SQL: Delete</h1>
52d980cb 249<pre>my $delete = $dbh-&gt;prepare('
250 DELETE FROM books
251 WHERE id = ?
252');
253
254$delete-&gt;execute(<strong>$book_id</strong>);</pre>
255 </div>
256
257 <div class="slide">
258 <h1>DBIx::Class</h1>
259 </div>
260
261 <div class="slide">
5cac74c7 262 <h1>DBIC: Create</h1>
52d980cb 263<pre>my $book = $book_model-&gt;create({
264 title =&gt; 'A book title',
265 author =&gt; $author_id,
266});</pre>
267 <p>Look ma, no SQL!</p>
52d980cb 268 </div>
269
270 <div class="slide">
5cac74c7 271 <h1>DBIC: Create</h1>
52d980cb 272<pre>my $pratchett = $author_model-&gt;create({
273 name =&gt; 'Terry Pratchett',
274});</pre>
275 </div>
276
277 <div class="slide">
5cac74c7 278 <h1>DBIC: Create</h1>
52d980cb 279<pre>my $book = $pratchett-&gt;create_related(
280 <strong>books</strong> =&gt; {
281 title =&gt; 'Another Discworld book',
282});</pre>
283<strong>or</strong>
284<pre>my $book = $pratchett-&gt;add_to_<strong>books</strong>({
285 title =&gt; 'Another Discworld book',
286});</pre>
287 </div>
288
289 <div class="slide">
5cac74c7 290 <h1>DBIC: Read</h1>
52d980cb 291 <p>DBIx::Class - Lots of ways to do the same thing...</p>
292 <p><em>"There is more than one way to do it (TIMTOWTDI, usually pronounced "Tim Toady") is a Perl motto"</em></p>
293 </div>
294
295 <div class="slide">
5cac74c7 296 <h1>DBIC: Read</h1>
52d980cb 297<pre>my $book = $book_model-&gt;find($book_id);
298
299my $book = $book_model-&gt;search({
300 title =&gt; 'A book title',
5cac74c7 301}, { rows =&gt; 1 })-&gt;single;
52d980cb 302
303my @books = $book_model-&gt;search({
304 author =&gt; $author_id,
305})-&gt;all;</pre>
306 </div>
307
308 <div class="slide">
5cac74c7 309 <h1>DBIC: Read</h1>
310<pre>while( my $book = $books_rs-&gt;next ) {
52d980cb 311 print 'Author of '
312 . $book-&gt;title
313 . ' is '
314 . $book-&gt;author-&gt;name
315 . "\n";
316}</pre>
317 </div>
318
319 <div class="slide">
5cac74c7 320 <h1>DBIC: Read</h1>
321<pre>my $books_rs = $book_rs-&gt;search({
52d980cb 322 author =&gt; $author_id,
323});</pre>
324 <p>Search takes SQL::Abstract formatted queries</p>
325 <pre>&gt; perldoc SQL::Abstract</p>
326 </div>
327
328 <div class="slide">
5cac74c7 329 <h1>DBIC: Update</h1>
52d980cb 330<pre>$book-&gt;update({
331 title =&gt; 'New title',
332});</pre>
333 </div>
334
335 <div class="slide">
5cac74c7 336 <h1>DBIC: Delete</h1>
52d980cb 337<pre>$book-&gt;delete;</pre>
338 </div>
339
340 <div class="slide">
341 <h1>Creating models</h1>
342 </div>
343
344 <div class="slide">
451b57c2 345<pre>package Foo::Schema::Result::Author;
492be2ae 346use strict; use warnings;
347__PACKAGE__-&gt;table('authors');
348__PACKAGE__-&gt;add_columns(
349 id =&gt; {
350 data_type =&gt; 'int',
351 size =&gt; 8,
352 },
353 title =&gt; {
354 data_type =&gt; 'varchar',
355 is_nullable =&gt; 1,
356 size =&gt; 255,
357 },
358);
359__PACKAGE__-&gt;set_primary_key('id');
360__PACKAGE__-&gt;has_many( books =&gt;
451b57c2 361 'Foo::Schema::Result::Book', 'author_id'
492be2ae 362);
3631;
364</pre>
365 </div>
366
367 <div class="slide">
451b57c2 368<pre>package Foo::Schema::Result::Book;
492be2ae 369use strict; use warnings;
370__PACKAGE__-&gt;table('books');
371__PACKAGE__-&gt;add_columns(
372 id =&gt; {
373 data_type =&gt; 'int',
374 size =&gt; 8,
375 },
376 name =&gt; {
377 data_type =&gt; 'varchar',
378 is_nullable =&gt; 1,
379 size =&gt; 255,
380 },
381 author_id =&gt; {
382 data_type =&gt; 'int',
383 size =&gt; 8,
384 is_nullable =&gt; 1, # &lt;-- probably should be 0
385 },
386);
387__PACKAGE__-&gt;set_primary_key('id');
388__PACKAGE__-&gt;belongs_to( author =&gt;
451b57c2 389 'Foo::Schema::Result::Author', 'author_id'
492be2ae 390);
3911;
392</pre>
52d980cb 393 </div>
394
395 <div class="slide">
52d980cb 396 <h1>Schema::Loader</h1>
c7321880 397 <p>DB -&gt; Perl vs Perl -&gt; DB</p>
451b57c2 398<pre>package Foo::Schema;
c7321880 399use strict; use warnings;
400use base 'DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader';
401__PACKAGE__-&gt;loader_options({
402 naming =&gt; 'v7',
403 debug =&gt; $ENV{DBIC_TRACE},
404});
4051;
406
407# elsewhere...
408
451b57c2 409my $schema = Foo::Schema-&gt;connect($dsn, $user, $pass);
c7321880 410</pre>
52d980cb 411 </div>
412
413 <div class="slide">
6e5edefe 414 <h1>Splitting Logic Cleanly</h1>
451b57c2 415 <p>Foo::Schema::Result::Bar = individual row</p>
416 <p>Foo::Schema::ResultSet::Bar = searches / table </p>
52d980cb 417 </div>
418
419 <div class="slide">
6e5edefe 420 <h1>Using your Schema</h1>
421<pre>#!perl
422use strict; use warnings;
423use lib 'lib';
451b57c2 424use Foo::Schema;
425my $schema = Foo::Schema-&gt;connect($dns, $user, $pass);
6e5edefe 426my $author_rs = $schema-&gt;resultset('Author');
427my $author = $author_rs-&gt;create({
428 name =&gt; 'Douglas Adams',
429});
430my $book = $author-&gt;add_to_books({
431 title =&gt; '42',
432});
433</pre>
52d980cb 434 </div>
435
436 <div class="slide">
437 <h1>DEBUGGING</h1>
438 <pre>DBIC_TRACE=1 ./your_script.pl</pre>
439 </div>
440
441 <div class="slide">
52d980cb 442 <h1>SQL - debugging</h1>
443<pre>INSERT INTO authors (name)
444 VALUES (?): 'Douglas Adams'
445
446INSERT INTO books (author, title)
447 VALUES (?, ?): '5', '42'</pre>
448 </div>
449
450 <div class="slide">
451 <h1>overloading</h1>
451b57c2 452<pre>Foo::Schema::Result::Book
453Foo::Schema::ResultSet::Book
454Foo::Schema::Result::Author
455Foo::Schema::ResultSet::Book</pre>
52d980cb 456 </div>
457
458 <div class="slide">
459 <h1>Result::</h1>
2a65778d 460<pre>package Foo::Schema::Result::Book;
461use base 'DBIx::Class::Core';
52d980cb 462use strict;
463use warnings;
464
6e5edefe 465# Result code here
466
52d980cb 467sub isbn {
468 my $self = shift;
469
470 # search amazon or something
471 my $api = Amazon::API-&gt;book({
472 title =&gt; $self-&gt;title
473 });
474
475 return $api-&gt;isbn;
476}
477
4781;</pre>
479 </div>
480
481 <div class="slide">
482 <h1>Result::</h1>
483<pre>print $book-&gt;isbn;</pre>
484 </div>
485
486 <div class="slide">
487 <h1>Result:: (inflating)</h1>
2a65778d 488<pre>package Foo::Schema::Result::Book;
489use base 'DBIx::Class::Core';
52d980cb 490use strict;
491use warnings;
492
451b57c2 493# Result code here
494
495__PACKAGE__-&gt;load_components('InflateColumn');
52d980cb 496use DateTime::Format::MySQL;
497
498__PACKAGE__-&gt;<strong>inflate_column</strong>(
499 <strong>date_published</strong> =&gt; {
500 inflate =&gt; sub { DateTime::Format::MySQL-&gt;parse_date(shift) },
501 deflate =&gt; sub { shift-&gt;ymd},
451b57c2 502 },
52d980cb 503);
504# Automatic see: DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::DateTime</pre>
505 </div>
506
507 <div class="slide">
52d980cb 508 <h1>Result:: (deflating)</h1>
509<pre>$book-&gt;date_published(DateTime-&gt;now);
510$book-&gt;update;</pre>
511 </div>
512
513 <div class="slide">
514 <h1>Result:: (inflating)</h1>
515<pre>my $date_published = $book-&gt;date_published;
516print $date_published-&gt;month_abbr;</pre>
517
518<strong><em>Nov</em></strong>
519 </div>
520
521 <div class="slide">
522 <h1>ResultSets::</h1>
41a0eb8e 523<pre>package Foo::Schema::ResultSet::Books;
52d980cb 524use base 'DBIx::Class::ResultSet';
525sub the_ultimate_books {
526 my $self = shift;
527 return $self-&gt;search({ title =&gt; { -like =&gt; '%42%' } });
528}
529sub by_author {
530 my ( $self, $author ) = @_;
531 return $self-&gt;search({ author =&gt; $author-&gt;id })
532}
533
5341;</pre>
535 </div>
536
537 <div class="slide">
538 <h1>ResultSets::</h1>
41a0eb8e 539<pre>use Foo::Schema;
451b57c2 540my $schema = Foo::Schema-&gt;connect(...);
541my $book_rs = Foo::Schema-&gt;resultset('Book');
542my $book_search = $book_rs-&gt;the_ultimate_books;
543my @books = $book_search-&gt;all;</pre>
52d980cb 544 </div>
545
546 <div class="slide">
451b57c2 547 <h1>ResultSets: Chaining</h1>
548<pre>
549my $book_rs = $schema-&gt;resultset('Book');
550my $author_rs = $schema-&gt;resultset('Author');
52d980cb 551my $author = $author_model-&gt;search({ name =&gt; 'Douglas Adams' })-&gt;single;
552my $book_rs = $book_model-&gt;the_ultimate_books-&gt;by_author($author);
553my @books = $book_rs-&gt;all;</pre>
554 </div>
555
556 <div class="slide">
451b57c2 557 <h1>ResultSets: Chaining</h1>
558<pre>$book_rs = $schema-&gt;resultset('Book')
52d980cb 559 -&gt;the_ultimate_books
560 -&gt;by_author($author);</pre>
561or
562
451b57c2 563<pre>my $book_rs = $schema-&gt;resultset('Book')
2a65778d 564 -&gt;the_ultimate_books;
52d980cb 565$book_rs = $book_rs-&gt;by_author($author);</pre>
566<pre># Debug (SQL):
567
568# SELECT me.id, me.title, me.date_published, me.author
569# FROM books me
570# WHERE ( ( ( author = ? ) AND ( title LIKE ? ) ) ): '5', '%42%'
571# WHERE ( ( ( author = ? ) AND ( title LIKE ? ) ) ): '5', '%42%'</pre>
572 </div>
573
574 <div class="slide">
575 <h1>ResultSets::chaining</h1>
576<pre>my $rs = $book_model
577 -&gt;category('childrens')
578 -&gt;by_author($author)
579 -&gt;published_after('1812')
580 -&gt;first_page_contains('once upon')
581 -&gt;rating_greater_than(4);
582
583my @books = $rs-&gt;all;</pre>
584 </div>
585
586 <div class="slide">
587 <h1>overloading before new record</h1>
2a65778d 588 <pre>package Foo::Schema::Result::Author;
589use base 'DBIx::Class::Core';
52d980cb 590
591sub new {
592 my ( $class, $attrs ) = @_;
593 # Mess with $attrs
594 my $new = $class-&gt;next::method($attrs);
595 return $new
596}
597
5981;</pre>
599
600 <div class="slide">
6548782a 601 <h1>Relationships</h1>
52d980cb 602 </div>
603
604 <div class="slide">
6548782a 605 <h1>Multiple Authors</h1>
52d980cb 606 </div>
607
608 <div class="slide">
609 <h1>a few relationships</h1>
6548782a 610 (really need picture here)
52d980cb 611 (authors -- author_link_to_book -- books)
612 </div>
613
614 <div class="slide">
6548782a 615 <h1>Join Table</h1>
52d980cb 616<pre>CREATE TABLE author_and_books(
6548782a 617 book_id int(8),
618 author_id int(8),
619 foreign key (book_id) references books(id),
620 foreign key (author_id) references authors(id)
52d980cb 621) engine = InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
622
6548782a 623ALTER TABLE `books` DROP `author`;</pre>
52d980cb 624 </div>
625
626 <div class="slide">
627 <h1>has_many</h1>
628 </div>
629
630 <div class="slide">
631 <h1>has_many</h1>
6548782a 632<pre>package Foo::Schema::<strong>Result::Book</strong>;
52d980cb 633
6548782a 634__PACKAGE__-&gt;has_many( author_and_books =&gt;
635 'Foo::Schema::Result::Author_Book', 'book_id'
52d980cb 636);
52d980cb 637 </div>
638
639 <div class="slide">
640 <h1>belongs_to</h1>
641 </div>
642
643 <div class="slide">
644 <h1>belongs_to</h1>
6548782a 645<pre>package Foo::Schema::<strong>Result::Author_Book</strong>;
52d980cb 646
647__PACKAGE__-&gt;belongs_to(
6548782a 648 book =&gt;
649 'Foo::Schema::Result::Book', 'book_id'
52d980cb 650);
651</pre>
652 </div>
653
654 <div class="slide">
655 <h1>same for Authors</h1>
656 </div>
657
658 <div class="slide">
52d980cb 659 <h1>many_to_many</h1>
660 </div>
661
662 <div class="slide">
663 <h1>many_to_many</h1>
2a65778d 664 <pre>package Foo::Schema::<strong>Result::Book</strong>;
665use base 'DBIx::Class::Core';
52d980cb 666
667__PACKAGE__-&gt;many_to_many(
6548782a 668 authors =&gt; 'author_and_books', 'author'
52d980cb 669);
670
6711;
6548782a 672</pre>
52d980cb 673 </div>
674
675 <div class="slide">
676 <h1>many_to_many</h1>
2a65778d 677 <pre>package Foo::Schema::<strong>Result::Book</strong>;
678use base 'DBIx::Class::Core';
52d980cb 679
680__PACKAGE__-&gt;many_to_many(
681 authors <strong># Accessor name</strong>
682 =&gt; "author_and_books", <strong># has_many</strong>
683 'author' <strong># foreign relationship name</strong>
684);
685
6861;</pre>
687 </div>
688
689 <div class="slide">
690 <h1>many_to_many</h1>
2a65778d 691 <pre>package Foo::Schema::Result::Author;
692use base 'DBIx::Class::Core';
52d980cb 693
694__PACKAGE__-&gt;many_to_many(
695 "books" <strong># Accessor Name</strong>
696 =&gt; "author_and_books", <strong># has_many accessor_name</strong>
697 'book' <strong># foreign relationship name</strong>
698);
699
7001;
6548782a 701</pre>
52d980cb 702 </div>
703
704 <div class="slide">
705 <h1>using many_to_many</h1>
706 <pre>#!/usr/bin/perl
707
41a0eb8e 708use Foo::Schema;
52d980cb 709
41a0eb8e 710my $author_model = Foo::Schema-&gt;resultset('Authors');
52d980cb 711my $author = $author_model-&gt;search({
712 name =&gt; 'Douglas Adams',
713})-&gt;single;
714$author-&gt;add_to_books({
715 title =&gt; 'A new book',
716});</pre>
717 </div>
718
719 <div class="slide">
720 <h1>using many_to_many</h1>
721 <pre>my $author = $author_model-&gt;search({
722 name =&gt; 'Douglas Adams',
723})-&gt;single;
724<strong>$author-&gt;add_to_books({
725 title =&gt; 'A new book',
726});</strong>
727
728# SELECT me.id, me.name FROM authors me
729# WHERE ( name = ? ): 'Douglas Adams';
730# INSERT INTO books (title) VALUES (?): 'A new book';
731# INSERT INTO author_and_books (author, book)
732# VALUES (?, ?): '5', '2';</pre>
733 </div>
734
735 <div class="slide">
736 <h1>using many_to_many</h1>
737 <pre>$author-&gt;add_to_books($book);
738
739$book-&gt;add_to_authors($author_1);
740$book-&gt;add_to_authors($author_2);</pre>
741 </div>
742
743 <div class="slide">
744 <h1>in 16 lines of code</h1>
745 </div>
746
747 <div class="slide">
748 <h1>errors</h1>
749 <p>Read them closely!</p>
750 </div>
751
752 <div class="slide">
753 <h1>error messages</h1>
41a0eb8e 754 <pre>DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader::connection(): Failed to load external class definition for 'Foo::Schema::Result::Authors': Can't locate object method "many_to_many" via package "Foo::Schema::Result::Author" at lib/Foo/Schema/Result/Authors.pm line 9.Compilation failed in require at /Library/Perl/5.8.8/DBIx/Class/Schema/Loader/Base.pm line 292.</pre>
52d980cb 755 </div>
756
757 <div class="slide">
758 <h1>error messages</h1>
41a0eb8e 759 <pre>DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader::connection(): Failed to load external class definition for 'Foo::Schema::Result::Authors': Can't locate object method "many_to_many" via package "Foo::Schema::<strong>Result::Author</strong>" at lib/Foo/Schema/<strong>Result/Authors.pm</strong> line 9.Compilation failed in require at /Library/Perl/5.8.8/DBIx/Class/Schema/Loader/Base.pm line 292.</pre>
52d980cb 760 </div>
761
762 <div class="slide">
763 <h1>errors</h1>
764 <ul>
765 <li>Turn on debugging</li>
766 <li>Read error messages (sometimes useful!)</li>
767 <li>Check field names</li>
768 <li>Check package names</li>
769 <li>Check which database you are connected to (dev/test/live?) - repeat above</li>
770 </ul>
771 </div>
772
773 <div class="slide">
774 <h1>bonus slides!</h1>
775 </div>
776
777 <div class="slide">
778 <h1>Template Toolkit</h1>
779 <ul>
780 <li><pre>[% author.books.count %]</pre> not working?</li>
781 <li>TT all methods are called in list context</li>
782 <li><pre>[% author.books<strong>_rs</strong>.count %]</pre> scalar context</li>
783 <li><em>Available for all relationships</em></li>
784 </ul>
785 </div>
786
787 <div class="slide">
788 <h1>Catalyst</h1>
0cffcad7 789 <pre>package Your::App::Model::<strong>Foo</strong>;
41a0eb8e 790use base qw(<strong>Catalyst::Model::Schema::Schema</strong>);
52d980cb 791
792use strict;
793use warnings;
794
795__PACKAGE__-&gt;config(
41a0eb8e 796 schema_class =&gt; '<strong>Foo::Schema</strong>',
52d980cb 797);
798
7991;</pre>
800 <p>Keep your Schema in a <em>separate</em> package to your Catalyst application</p>
801 </div>
802
803 <div class="slide">
804 <h1>Catalyst</h1>
805<pre>sub action_name : Local {
806 my ($self, $c) = @_;
807
41a0eb8e 808 my $model = $c-&gt;model('Schema::Foo');
52d980cb 809 my $author_model = $model-&gt;resultset('Authors');
810
811}
812
8131;</pre>
814 </div>
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