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/ Dancer2::Plugin::DBIC

NAME

Dancer2::Plugin::DBIC - DBIx::Class interface for Dancer2 applications

VERSION

version 0.0100

SYNOPSIS

use Dancer2;
use Dancer2::Plugin::DBIC;

get '/users/:user_id' => sub {
    my $user = schema('default')->resultset('User')->find(param 'user_id');

    # If you are accessing the 'default' schema, then all the following
    # are equivalent to the above:
    $user = schema->resultset('User')->find(param 'user_id');
    $user = resultset('User')->find(param 'user_id');
    $user = rset('User')->find(param 'user_id');

    template user_profile => {
        user => $user
    };
};

dance;

DESCRIPTION

This plugin makes it very easy to create Dancer2 applications that interface with databases. It automatically exports the keyword schema which returns a DBIx::Class::Schema object. It also exports the keywords resultset and rset. You just need to configure your database connection information. For performance, schema objects are cached in memory and are lazy loaded the first time they are accessed.

This plugin is a thin wrapper around DBICx::Sugar.

CONFIGURATION

Configuration can be done in your Dancer2 config file. This is a minimal example. It defines one database named default:

plugins:
  DBIC:
    default:
      dsn: dbi:SQLite:dbname=some.db

In this example, there are 2 databases configured named default and foo:

plugins:
  DBIC:
    default:
      dsn: dbi:SQLite:dbname=some.db
      schema_class: MyApp::Schema
    foo:
      dsn: dbi:mysql:foo
      schema_class: Foo::Schema
      user: bob
      password: secret
      options:
        RaiseError: 1
        PrintError: 1

Each database configured must at least have a dsn option. The dsn option should be the DBI driver connection string. All other options are optional.

If you only have one schema configured, or one of them is named default, you can call schema without an argument to get the only or default schema, respectively.

If a schema_class option is not provided, then DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader will be used to dynamically load the schema by introspecting the database corresponding to the dsn value. Remember that you need DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader installed to take advantage of that.

The schema_class option, should be a proper Perl package name that Dancer2::Plugin::DBIC will use as a DBIx::Class::Schema class. Optionally, a database configuration may have user, password, and options parameters as described in the documentation for connect() in DBI.

You may also declare your connection information in the following format (which may look more familiar to DBIC users):

plugins:
  DBIC:
    default:
      connect_info:
        - dbi:mysql:foo
        - bob
        - secret
        -
          RaiseError: 1
          PrintError: 1

FUNCTIONS

schema

my $user = schema->resultset('User')->find('bob');

The schema keyword returns a DBIx::Class::Schema object ready for you to use. If you have configured only one database, then you can simply call schema with no arguments. If you have configured multiple databases, you can still call schema with no arguments if there is a database named default in the configuration. With no argument, the default schema is returned. Otherwise, you must provide schema() with the name of the database:

my $user = schema('foo')->resultset('User')->find('bob');

resultset

This is a convenience method that will save you some typing. Use this only when accessing the default schema.

my $user = resultset('User')->find('bob');

is equivalent to:

my $user = schema->resultset('User')->find('bob');

rset

my $user = rset('User')->find('bob');

This is simply an alias for resultset.

SCHEMA GENERATION

There are two approaches for generating schema classes. You may generate your own DBIx::Class classes and set the corresponding schema_class setting in your configuration as shown above. This is the recommended approach for performance and stability.

It is also possible to have schema classes dynamically generated if you omit the schema_class configuration setting. This requires you to have DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader installed. The v7 naming scheme will be used for naming the auto generated classes. See "naming" in DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader::Base for more information about naming.

For generating your own schema classes, you can use the dbicdump command line tool provided by DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader to help you. For example, if your app were named Foo, then you could run the following from the root of your project directory:

dbicdump -o dump_directory=./lib Foo::Schema dbi:SQLite:/path/to/foo.db

For that example, your schema_class setting would be Foo::Schema.

SEE ALSO

CONTRIBUTORS

AUTHOR

Naveed Massjouni <naveed@vt.edu>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Naveed Massjouni.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.