1Class::DBI::Loader(3) User Contributed Perl DocumentationClass::DBI::Loader(3)
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6 Class::DBI::Loader - Dynamic definition of Class::DBI sub classes.
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9 use Class::DBI::Loader;
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11 my $loader = Class::DBI::Loader->new(
12 dsn => "dbi:mysql:dbname",
13 user => "root",
14 password => "",
15 options => { RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 0 },
16 namespace => "Data",
17 additional_classes => qw/Class::DBI::AbstractSearch/, # or arrayref
18 additional_base_classes => qw/My::Stuff/, # or arrayref
19 left_base_classes => qw/Class::DBI::Sweet/, # or arrayref
20 constraint => '^foo.*',
21 relationships => 1,
22 options => { AutoCommit => 1 },
23 inflect => { child => 'children' },
24 require => 1
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26 my $class = $loader->find_class('film'); # $class => Data::Film
27 my $obj = $class->retrieve(1);
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29 use with mod_perl
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31 in your startup.pl
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34 use Class::DBI::Loader;
35 my $loader = Class::DBI::Loader->new(
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46 # you can use Data::Film directly
47 my $film = Data::Film->retrieve($id);
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50 Class::DBI::Loader automate the definition of Class::DBI sub-classes.
51 scan table schemas and setup columns, primary key.
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53 class names are defined by table names and namespace option.
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55 +-----------+-----------+-----------+
56 | table | namespace | class |
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58 | foo | Data | Data::Foo |
59 | foo_bar | | FooBar |
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62 Class::DBI::Loader supports MySQL, Postgres and SQLite.
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64 See Class::DBI::Loader::Generic.
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69 List of additional base classes your table classes will use.
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72 List of additional base classes, that need to be leftmost, for
73 example Class::DBI::Sweet (former Catalyst::Model::CDBI::Sweet).
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76 List of additional classes which your table classes will use.
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82 Exclude tables matching regex.
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85 Enable debug messages.
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87 dsn DBI Data Source Name.
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90 Namespace under which your table classes will be initialized.
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93 Password.
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96 Optional hashref to specify DBI connect options
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99 Try to automatically detect/setup has_a and has_many relationships.
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102 An hashref, which contains exceptions to Lingua::EN::Inflect::PL().
103 Useful for foreign language column names.
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109 Attempt to require the dynamically defined module, so