DBIx-Class-LookupColumn

dbic component generating accessors method to get data by a table pointing to a Lookup table (catalog of terms) in a efficient way (cache system).

Description

This distribution written in Perl provides some convenient methods (accessors) to table classes on the top the DBIx::Class (object relational-mapping).

Terminology

What is meant as a Lookup table is a table containing some terms definition, such as PermissionType (permission_id, name) with such data (1, 'Administrator'; 2, 'User'; 3, 'Guest') associated with a client table such as User, whose metas might look like this : (id, first_name, last_name, permission_id).

Features

The three major features this present distro offer are :

• generates accessors to table classes for fectching data stored in the associated lookup table.
• provides an effecient way to fetch data by means of a cache system.
• automatizes the accessors' generating for a DB schema.