NAME
DBICx::Sugar - Just some syntax sugar for DBIx::Class
VERSION
version 0.0100
SYNOPSIS
use DBICx::Sugar qw(schema resultset rset);
# all of the following are equivalent:
$user = schema('default')->resultset('User')->find('bob');
$user = schema->resultset('User')->find('bob');
$user = resultset('User')->find('bob');
$user = rset('User')->find('bob');
DESCRIPTION
Just some syntax sugar for your DBIx::Class applications. This was
originally created to remove code duplication between
Dancer::Plugin::DBIC and Dancer2::Plugin::DBIC.
CONFIGURATION
Configuration can be automatically parsed from a `config.yaml` or
`config.yml` file in the current working directory, or it can be
explicitly set with the config function:
DBICx::Sugar::config({ default => { dsn => ... } });
If you want the config to be autoloaded from a yaml config file, just
make sure to put your config data under a top level dbicx_sugar key.
simple example
Here is a simple example. It defines one database named default:
dbicx_sugar:
default:
dsn: dbi:SQLite:dbname=myapp.db
schema_class: MyApp::Schema
multiple schemas
In this example, there are 2 databases configured named default and
foo:
dbicx_sugar:
default:
dsn: dbi:SQLite:dbname=myapp.db
schema_class: MyApp::Schema
foo:
dsn: dbi:Pg:dbname=foo
schema_class: Foo::Schema
user: bob
password: secret
options:
RaiseError: 1
PrintError: 1
Each database configured must at least have a dsn option. The dsn
option should be the DBI driver connection string. All other options
are optional.
If you only have one schema configured, or one of them is named
default, you can call schema without an argument to get the only or
default schema, respectively.
If a schema_class option is not provided, then
DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader will be used to dynamically load the schema
by introspecting the database corresponding to the dsn value. You need
DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader installed for this to work.
WARNING: Dynamic loading is not recommended for production
environments. It is almost always better to provide a schema_class
option.
The schema_class option should be the name of your DBIx::Class::Schema
class. See "SCHEMA GENERATION" Optionally, a database configuration may
have user, password, and options parameters as described in the
documentation for connect() in DBI.
connect_info
Alternatively, you may also declare your connection information inside
an array named connect_info:
dbicx_sugar:
default:
schema_class: MyApp::Schema
connect_info:
- dbi:Pg:dbname=foo
- bob
- secret
-
RaiseError: 1
PrintError: 1
replicated
You can also add database read slaves to your configuration with the
replicated config option. This will automatically make your read
queries go to a slave and your write queries go to the master. Keep in
mind that this will require additional dependencies:
DBIx::Class::Optional::Dependencies#Storage::Replicated See
DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Replicated for more details. Here is an
example configuration that adds two read slaves:
dbicx_sugar:
default:
schema_class: MyApp::Schema
dsn: dbi:Pg:dbname=master
replicated:
balancer_type: ::Random # optional
balancer_args: # optional
auto_validate_every: 5 # optional
master_read_weight:1 # optional
# pool_type and pool_args are also allowed and are also optional
replicants:
-
- dbi:Pg:dbname=slave1
- user1
- password1
-
quote_names: 1
pg_enable_utf8: 1
-
- dbi:Pg:dbname=slave2
- user2
- password2
-
quote_names: 1
pg_enable_utf8: 1
alias
Schema aliases allow you to reference the same underlying database by
multiple names. For example:
dbicx_sugar:
default:
dsn: dbi:Pg:dbname=master
schema_class: MyApp::Schema
slave1:
alias: default
Now you can access the default schema with schema(), schema('default'),
or schema('slave1'). This can come in handy if, for example, you have
master/slave replication in your production environment but only a
single database in your development environment. You can continue to
reference schema('slave1') in your code in both environments by simply
creating a schema alias in your development.yml config file, as shown
above.
FUNCTIONS
schema
my $user = schema->resultset('User')->find('bob');
Returns a DBIx::Class::Schema object ready for you to use. For
performance, schema objects are cached in memory and are lazy loaded
the first time they are accessed. If you have configured only one
database, then you can simply call schema with no arguments. If you
have configured multiple databases, you can still call schema with no
arguments if there is a database named default in the configuration.
With no argument, the default schema is returned. Otherwise, you must
provide schema() with the name of the database:
my $user = schema('foo')->resultset('User')->find('bob');
resultset
This is a convenience method that will save you some typing. Use this
only when accessing the default schema.
my $user = resultset('User')->find('bob');
is equivalent to:
my $user = schema->resultset('User')->find('bob');
rset
my $user = rset('User')->find('bob');
This is simply an alias for resultset.
get_config
Returns the current configuration, like config does, but does not look
for a config file.
Use this for introspection, eg:
my $dbix_sugar_is_configured = get_config ? 1 : 0 ;
add_schema_to_config
This function does not touch the existing config. It can be used if
some other part of your app has configured DBICx::Sugar but did not
know about the part that uses an extra schema.
add_schema_to_config('schema_name', { dsn => ... });
SCHEMA GENERATION
Setting the schema_class option and having proper DBIx::Class classes
is the recommended approach for performance and stability. You can use
the dbicdump command line tool provided by DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader
to help you. For example, if your app were named Foo, then you could
run the following from the root of your project directory:
dbicdump -o dump_directory=./lib Foo::Schema dbi:SQLite:/path/to/foo.db
For this example, your schema_class setting would be 'Foo::Schema'.
CONTRIBUTORS
* Henk van Oers <
https://github.com/hvoers>
AUTHOR
Naveed Massjouni <
[email protected]>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Naveed Massjouni.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.