NAME

DBIx::Class::Helper::Row::StorageValues - Keep track of stored vs in-memory row values

VERSION

version 2.016005

SYNOPSIS

package MyApp::Schema::Result::BlogPost;

use parent 'DBIx::Class::Core';

__PACKAGE__->load_components(qw(Helper::Row::StorageValues));

__PACKAGE__->table('BlogPost');
__PACKAGE__->add_columns(
   id => {
      data_type         => 'integer',
      is_auto_increment => 1,
   },
   title => {
      data_type          => 'varchar',
      length             => 32,
      keep_storage_value => 1,
   },
   body => {
      data_type => 'text',
   },
);

1;

# elsewhere:

my $post = $blog_rs->create({
  title => 'Components for fun and profit',
  body  => '...',
});

$post->title('Components for fun');

warn sprintf 'Changing title from %s to %s',
  $post->storage_value('title'), $post->title;

$post->update;

DESCRIPTION

This component keeps track of the value for a given column in the database. If you change the column's value and do not call update, the storage_value will be different; once update is called the storage_value will be set to the value of the accessor. Note that the fact that it uses the accessor is an important distinction. If you are using DBIx::Class::FilterColumn or DBIx::Class::InflateColumn it will get the non-storage or inflated values, respectively.

METHODS

_has_storage_value

$self->_has_storage_value('colname')

returns true if we should store the storage value from the database. Override this if you'd like to enable storage on all integers or something like that:

sub _has_storage_value {
   my ( $self, $column ) = @_;

   my $info = $self->column_info($column);

   return defined $info->{data_type} && $info->{data_type} eq 'integer';
}

storage_value_columns

$self->storage_value_columns

returns a list of columns to store

get_storage_value

$self->get_storage_value('colname')

returns the value for that column which is in storage

AUTHOR

Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt <frioux+cpan@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt.

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