NAME

Fey::Literal - Represents a literal piece of a SQL statement

SYNOPSIS

my $literal = Fey::Literal->new_from_scalar($string_or_number_or_undef);

DESCRIPTION

This class represents a literal piece of a SQL statement, such as a string, number, or function.

It is the superclass for several more specific Fey::Literal subclasses, and also provides short

METHODS

This class provides the following methods:

Fey::Literal->new_from_scalar($scalar)

Given a string, number, or undef, this method returns a new object of the appropriate subclass. This will be either a Fey::Literal::String, Fey::Literal::Number, or Fey::Literal::Null.

$literal->set_alias_name($alias)

Use this to explicitly set a literal's alias name for use in SQL. If you don't set this, it will be autogenerated as needed.

$literal->id()

Returns a unique id for a literal object.

$literal->sql()

$literal->sql_with_alias()

$literal->sql_or_alias()

Returns the appropriate SQL snippet.

Calling $literal->sql_with_alias() causes a unique alias for the literal to be created.

AUTHOR

Dave Rolsky, <autarch@urth.org>

BUGS

See Fey for details on how to report bugs.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2006-2009 Dave Rolsky, All Rights Reserved.

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