NAME
   DBIx::Class - Extensible and flexible object <-> relational mapper.

SYNOPSIS
   Create a schema class called DB/Main.pm:

     package DB::Main;
     use base qw/DBIx::Class::Schema/;

     __PACKAGE__->load_classes();

     1;

   Create a table class to represent artists, who have many CDs, in
   DB/Main/Artist.pm:

     package DB::Main::Artist;
     use base qw/DBIx::Class/;

     __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/PK::Auto Core/);
     __PACKAGE__->table('artist');
     __PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/ artistid name /);
     __PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('artistid');
     __PACKAGE__->has_many(cds => 'DB::Main::CD');

     1;

   A table class to represent a CD, which belongs to an artist, in
   DB/Main/CD.pm:

     package DB::Main::CD;
     use base qw/DBIx::Class/;

     __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/PK::Auto Core/);
     __PACKAGE__->table('cd');
     __PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/ cdid artist title year /);
     __PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('cdid');
     __PACKAGE__->belongs_to(artist => 'DB::Main::Artist');

     1;

   Then you can use these classes in your application's code:

     # Connect to your database.
     use DB::Main;
     my $schema = DB::Main->connect($dbi_dsn, $user, $pass, \%dbi_params);

     # Query for all artists and put them in an array,
     # or retrieve them as a result set object.
     my @all_artists = $schema->resultset('Artist')->all;
     my $all_artists_rs = $schema->resultset('Artist');

     # Create a result set to search for artists.
     # This does not query the DB.
     my $johns_rs = $schema->resultset('Artist')->search(
       # Build your WHERE using an SQL::Abstract structure:
       { name => { like => 'John%' } }
     );

     # Execute a joined query to get the cds.
     my @all_john_cds = $johns_rs->search_related('cds')->all;

     # Fetch only the next row.
     my $first_john = $johns_rs->next;

     # Specify ORDER BY on the query.
     my $first_john_cds_by_title_rs = $first_john->cds(
       undef,
       { order_by => 'title' }
     );

     # Create a result set that will fetch the artist relationship
     # at the same time as it fetches CDs, using only one query.
     my $millennium_cds_rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->search(
       { year => 2000 },
       { prefetch => 'artist' }
     );

     my $cd = $millennium_cds_rs->next; # SELECT ... FROM cds JOIN artists ...
     my $cd_artist_name = $cd->artist->name; # Already has the data so no query

     my $new_cd = $schema->resultset('CD')->new({ title => 'Spoon' });
     $new_cd->artist($cd->artist);
     $new_cd->insert; # Auto-increment primary key filled in after INSERT
     $new_cd->title('Fork');

     $schema->txn_do(sub { $new_cd->update }); # Runs the update in a transaction

     $millennium_cds_rs->update({ year => 2002 }); # Single-query bulk update

DESCRIPTION
   This is an SQL to OO mapper with an object API inspired by Class::DBI
   (and a compatibility layer as a springboard for porting) and a resultset
   API that allows abstract encapsulation of database operations. It aims
   to make representing queries in your code as perl-ish as possible while
   still providing access to as many of the capabilities of the database as
   possible, including retrieving related records from multiple tables in a
   single query, JOIN, LEFT JOIN, COUNT, DISTINCT, GROUP BY and HAVING
   support.

   DBIx::Class can handle multi-column primary and foreign keys, complex
   queries and database-level paging, and does its best to only query the
   database in order to return something you've directly asked for. If a
   resultset is used as an iterator it only fetches rows off the statement
   handle as requested in order to minimise memory usage. It has
   auto-increment support for SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server
   and DB2 and is known to be used in production on at least the first
   four, and is fork- and thread-safe out of the box (although your DBD may
   not be).

   This project is still under rapid development, so large new features may
   be marked EXPERIMENTAL - such APIs are still usable but may have edge
   bugs. Failing test cases are *always* welcome and point releases are put
   out rapidly as bugs are found and fixed.

   We do our best to maintain full backwards compatibility for published
   APIs, since DBIx::Class is used in production in many organisations, and
   even backwards incompatible changes to non-published APIs will be fixed
   if they're reported and doing so doesn't cost the codebase anything.

   The test suite is quite substantial, and several developer releases are
   generally made to CPAN before the -current branch is merged back to
   trunk for a major release.

   The community can be found via:

     Mailing list: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class/

     SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/DBIx-Class/

     IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class

WHERE TO GO NEXT
   DBIx::Class::Manual::DocMap lists each task you might want help on, and
   the modules where you will find documentation.

AUTHOR
   mst: Matt S. Trout <[email protected]>

   (I mostly consider myself "project founder" these days but the AUTHOR
   heading is traditional :)

CONTRIBUTORS
   abraxxa: Alexander Hartmaier <[email protected]>

   aherzog: Adam Herzog <[email protected]>

   andyg: Andy Grundman <[email protected]>

   ank: Andres Kievsky

   ash: Ash Berlin <[email protected]>

   blblack: Brandon L. Black <[email protected]>

   bluefeet: Aran Deltac <[email protected]>

   captainL: Luke Saunders <[email protected]>

   castaway: Jess Robinson

   claco: Christopher H. Laco

   clkao: CL Kao

   da5id: David Jack Olrik <[email protected]>

   dkubb: Dan Kubb <[email protected]>

   dnm: Justin Wheeler <[email protected]>

   draven: Marcus Ramberg <[email protected]>

   dwc: Daniel Westermann-Clark <[email protected]>

   dyfrgi: Michael Leuchtenburg <[email protected]>

   gphat: Cory G Watson <[email protected]>

   jesper: Jesper Krogh

   jguenther: Justin Guenther <[email protected]>

   jnapiorkowski: John Napiorkowski <[email protected]>

   jshirley: J. Shirley <[email protected]>

   konobi: Scott McWhirter

   LTJake: Brian Cassidy <[email protected]>

   mattlaw: Matt Lawrence

   ned: Neil de Carteret

   nigel: Nigel Metheringham <[email protected]>

   ningu: David Kamholz <[email protected]>

   Numa: Dan Sully <[email protected]>

   paulm: Paul Makepeace

   penguin: K J Cheetham

   phaylon: Robert Sedlacek <[email protected]>

   quicksilver: Jules Bean

   sc_: Just Another Perl Hacker

   scotty: Scotty Allen <[email protected]>

   sszabo: Stephan Szabo <[email protected]>

   Todd Lipcon

   typester: Daisuke Murase <[email protected]>

   victori: Victor Igumnov <[email protected]>

   wdh: Will Hawes

   willert: Sebastian Willert <[email protected]>

   zamolxes: Bogdan Lucaciu <[email protected]>

LICENSE
   You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.