NAME
DBIx::EAV::Schema - Describes the physical EAV database schema.
SYNOPSIS
my $schema = DBIx:EAV::Schema->new(
dbh => $dbh, # required
tables => \%tables # required
tenant_id => $tenant_id, # default undef
table_prefix => 'my_eav_', # default 'eav_'
);DESCRIPTION
This class represents the physical eav database schema. Will never need to instantiate an object of this class directly.
CONSTRUCTOR OPTIONS
data_types
Arrayref of SQL data types that will be available to entity attributes. DBIx::EAV uses one value table for each data type listed here. See "deploy" in DBIx::EAV::Schema.
TABLES
This section describes the required tables and columns for the EAV system.
entity_types
This table stores all entities. All columns of of this table are presented as static attributes for all entity types. So you can add any number of columns in addition to the required ones.
attributes
relationships
type_hierarchy
entities
entity_relationships
<data_type>_values
METHODS
table
my $table = $schema->table($name);Returns a DBIx::EAV::Table representing the table $name.
dbh_do
data_types
has_data_type
deploy
Create the eav database tables.
$eav->schema->deploy( add_drop_table => 1 );get_ddl
Returns the eav schema DDL in any of the supported SQL::Translator producers. If no argument is passed a producer for the current driver is used.
my $mysql_ddl = $eav->schema->get_ddl('MySQL');db_driver_name
Shortcut for $self->dbh->{Driver}{Name}.
LICENSE
Copyright (C) Carlos Fernando Avila Gratz.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
AUTHOR
Carlos Fernando Avila Gratz <cafe@kreato.com.br>