NAME

DBIx::JSON - Perl extension for creating JSON from existing DBI datasources

VERSION

Version 0.01

SYNOPSIS

my $dsn = "dbname=$dbname;host=$host;port=$port";
print DBIx::JSON->new( $dsn, "mysql", $dbusername, $dbpasswd )
    ->do_select("select * from table;")->get_json;

or

my $dsn = "dbname=$dbname;host=$host;port=$port";
my $obj = DBIx::JSON->new($dsn, "mysql", $dbusername, $dbpasswd);
$obj->do_select("select * from table;");
$obj->err && die $obj->errstr;
print $obj->get_json;

EXPORT

none. This is OO.

DESCRIPTION

This module is a simple creator of JSON data from RDBMS.

One use of this module might be to extract data on the web server, and send the raw data (in JSON format) to a client's browser, and then JavaScript do eval it to generate dynamic HTML.

This module was inspired by DBIx::XML_RDB.

FUNCTIONS

new

DBIx::JSON->new( $dsn, $dbidriver, $dbusername, $dbpasswd );

This method is a constructor. See the DBI documentation for what each of these means.

do_select

$obj->do_select( $sql [, $key_field] );

This takes a SELECT command string, and calls DBI::selectall_arrayref method. If $key_field is given, this calls DBI::selectall_hashref method. See the DBI documentation for details.

This doesn't do any checking if the sql is valid. Subsequent calls to do_select do overwrite the output.

do_sql

$obj->do_sql( $sql );

This takes a non SELECT command string (e.g. UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE), and calls DBI::do method. See the DBI documentation for details.

get_json

$obj->get_json;

Simply returns the JSON generated from the previous SQL call. The format of the JSON output is something like this:

# selectall_arrayref
[
    ["user1","data1"],
    ["user2","data2"],
    ["user3","data3"],
    ...
]

# selectall_hashref
{
    "user1":{"data":"data1","name":"user1"},
    "user2":{"data":"data2","name":"user2"},
    "user3":{"data":"data3","name":"user3"},
    ...
}

has_data

$obj->has_data;

This returns whether get_json method can be called or not.

clear_data

$obj->clear_data;

This clears the results from the previous SQL call.

err

$obj->err();

This returns $DBI::err.

errstr

$obj->errstr();

This returns $DBI::errstr.

AUTHOR

Koji Komatsu, <yosty at kmtz.net>

BUGS

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

SUPPORT

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

perldoc DBIx::JSON

You can also look for information at:

SEE ALSO

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

None.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2006 Koji Komatsu, all rights reserved.

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