NAME

Rose::DB::Object::Std::Cached - Memory cached standardized object representation of a single row in a database table.

SYNOPSIS

package Category;

use Rose::DB::Object::Std::Cached;
our @ISA = qw(Rose::DB::Object::Std::Cached);

__PACKAGE__->meta->table('categories');

__PACKAGE__->meta->columns
(
  id          => { type => 'int', primary_key => 1 },
  name        => { type => 'varchar', length => 255 },
  description => { type => 'text' },
);

__PACKAGE__->meta->add_unique_key('name');

__PACKAGE__->meta->initialize;

...

$cat1 = Category->new(id   => 123,
                      name => 'Art');

$cat1->save or die $category->error;


$cat2 = Category->new(id => 123);

# This will load from the memory cache, not the database
$cat2->load or die $cat2->error; 

# $cat2 is the same object as $cat1
print "Yep, cached"  if($cat1 eq $cat2);

# No, really, it's the same object
$cat1->name('Blah');
print $cat2->name; # prints "Blah"

...

DESCRIPTION

Rose::DB::Object::Std::Cached is a subclass of both Rose::DB::Object::Std and Rose::DB::Object::Cached. It simply combines the features of both classes. See the Rose::DB::Object::Std and Rose::DB::Object::Cached documentation for more information.

AUTHOR

John C. Siracusa (siracusa@mindspring.com)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005 by John C. Siracusa. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.