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NAME

TSQL::AST - 'Abstract Syntax Tree' for TSQL.

VERSION

Version 0.03_012

SYNOPSIS

Parses Microsoft's Transact SQL dialect of SQL.

DESCRIPTION

This only provides a very 'broad brush' parse of TSQL. It aims to be accurate in what it does parse, but not to provide any great detail. Currently it recursively recognises the major block structure elements of TSQL.

This is still *ALPHA* quality software. It should still be a developer-only release, but I'm getting tired of those. If you've come looking for a full-blown TSQL parser, you're going to leave here very disappointed. Even when finished, this is going to leave most of your SQL unparsed. It's intended to support another piece of work, which is currently only in the planning stage, and will have its development driven from those requirements as they materialise.

Note TSQL::AST is only intended to parse syntactically valid TSQL.

DEPENDENCIES

TSQL::AST depends on the following modules:

AUTHOR

Ded MedVed, <dedmedved at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-tsql-ast at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=TSQL::AST. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

METHODS

new

  • TSQL::AST->new()

It creates and returns a new TSQL::AST object.

parse

  • $ast->parse( array of sqlfragments )

    This is the method which parses the split up SQL code from the original script.

    my $sql_splitter = TSQL::SplitStatement->new();

my @statements = $sql_splitter->splitSQL( 'SELECT 1;SELECT 2;' );

my $sql_parser = TSQL::AST->new();

my $ast = $sql_parser->parse( \@statements );

script

  • $ast->script()

    This is the method which retrieves the AST for the script just parsed.

    my $sql_splitter = TSQL::SplitStatement->new();

my @statements = $sql_splitter->splitSQL( 'SELECT 1;SELECT 2;' );

my $sql_parser = TSQL::AST->new();

my $ast = $sql_parser->parse( \@statements );

my $script = $ast->script();

LIMITATIONS

No limitations are currently known, as far as the intended usage is concerned. You *are* bound to uncover a large number of problems.

Please report any problematic cases.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc TSQL::AST

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    None yet.

SEE ALSO

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2012 Ded MedVed.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.