NAME

Test::Database::Driver - Base class for Test::Database drivers

SYNOPSIS

package Test::Database::Driver::MyDatabase;
use strict;
use warnings;

use Test::Database::Driver;
our @ISA = qw( Test::Database::Driver );

sub _version {
    my ($class) = @_;
    ...;
    return $version;
}

sub create_database {
    my ( $self ) = @_;
    ...;
    return $handle;
}

sub drop_database {
    my ( $self, $name ) = @_;
    ...;
}

sub databases {
    my ($self) = @_;
    ...;
    return @databases;
}

DESCRIPTION

Test::Database::Driver is a base class for creating Test::Database drivers.

METHODS

The class provides the following methods:

new( %args )

Create a new Test::Database::Driver object.

If called as Test::Database::Driver->new(), requires a driver parameter to define the actual object class.

make_handle()

Create a new Test::Database::Handle object, attached to an existing database or to a newly created one.

The decision whether to create a new database or not is made by Test::Database::Driver based on the information in the mapper. See "TEMPORARY STORAGE ORGANIZATION" for details.

name()

dbd()

The driver's short name (everything after Test::Database::Driver::).

base_dir()

The directory where the driver should store all the files for its databases, if needed. Typically used by file-based database drivers.

version()

version object representing the version of the underlying database enginge. This object is build with the return value of _version().

driver_dsn()

Return a driver Data Source Name, sufficient to connect to the database engine without specifying an actual database.

username()

Return the connection username.

password()

Return the connection password.

connection_info()

Return the connection information triplet (driver_dsn, username, password).

The class also provides a few helpful commands that may be useful for driver authors:

available_dbname()

Return an unused database name that can be used to create a new database for the driver.

dsn( $dbname )

Return a bare Data Source Name, for the database with the given $dbname.

WRITING A DRIVER FOR YOUR DATABASE OF CHOICE

The SYNOPSIS contains a good template for writing a Test::Database::Driver class.

Creating a driver requires writing the following methods:

_version()

Return the version of the underlying database engine.

create_database( $name )

Create the database for the corresponding DBD driver.

Return a Test::Database::Handle in case of success, and nothing in case of failure to create the database.

drop_database( $name )

Drop the database named $name.

Some methods have defaults implementations in Test::Database::Driver, but those can be overridden in the derived class:

is_filebased()

Return a boolean value indicating if the database engine is file-based or not, i.e. if all the database information is stored in a file or a directory, and no external database server is needed.

databases()

Return the names of all existing databases for this driver as a list (the default implementation is only valid for file-based drivers).

TEMPORARY STORAGE ORGANIZATION

Subclasses of Test::Database::Driver store useful information in the system's temporary directory, under a directory named Test-Database-$user ($user being the current user's name).

That directory contains the following files:

database files

The database files and directories created by file-based drivers controlled by Test::Database are stored here, under names matching tdd_DRIVER_N, where DRIVER is the lowercased name of the driver and N is a number.

the mapping.yml file

A YAML file containing a cwd() / database name mapping, to enable a given test suite to receive the same database handles in all the test scripts that call the Test::Database-handles()> method.

AUTHOR

Philippe Bruhat (BooK), <book@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2008-2009 Philippe Bruhat (BooK), all rights reserved.

LICENSE

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