DBIx::Class::Manual::Features(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation DBIx::Class::Manual::Features(3)

DBIx::Class::Manual::Features - A boatload of DBIx::Class features with links to respective documentation

There are hundres of DBIC contributors listed in AUTHORS. That ranges from documentation help, to test help, to added features, to entire database support.

Currently (June 9, 2010) 6 active branches (committed to in the last two weeks) in git. Last release (0.08122) had 14 new features, and 16 bug fixes. Of course that ebbs and flows <https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/DBIx-Class>.)

These are things that are in most other ORMs, but are still reasons to use DBIC over raw SQL.

The vast majority of code should run on all databases without needing tweaking

SQL: Create

 my $sth = $dbh->prepare('
    INSERT INTO books
    (title, author_id)
    values (?,?)
 ');
 $sth->execute( 'A book title', $author_id );

DBIC: Create

 my $book = $book_rs->create({
    title     => 'A book title',
    author_id => $author_id,
 });

See "create" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet

SQL: Read

 my $sth = $dbh->prepare('
    SELECT title,
    authors.name as author_name
    FROM books, authors
    WHERE books.author = authors.id
 ');
 while ( my $book = $sth->fetchrow_hashref ) {
   say "Author of $book->{title} is $book->{author_name}";
 }

DBIC: Read

 my $book = $book_rs->find($book_id);

or

 my $book = $book_rs->search({ title => 'A book title' }, { rows => 1 })->next;

or

 my @books = $book_rs->search({ author => $author_id })->all;

or

 while( my $book = $books_rs->next ) {
   printf "Author of %s is %s\n", $book->title, $book->author->name;
 }

See "find" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet, "search" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet, "next" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet, and "all" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet

TMTOWTDI!

SQL: Update

 my $update = $dbh->prepare('
    UPDATE books
    SET title = ?
    WHERE id = ?
 ');
 $update->execute( 'New title', $book_id );

DBIC: Update

 $book->update({ title => 'New title' });

See "update" in DBIx::Class::Row

Will not update unless value changes

SQL: Delete

 my $delete = $dbh->prepare('DELETE FROM books WHERE id = ?');
 $delete->execute($book_id);

DBIC: Delete

 $book->delete

See "delete" in DBIx::Class::Row

SQL: Search

 my $sth = $dbh->prepare('
   SELECT title,
   authors.name as author_name
   FROM books
   WHERE books.name LIKE "%monte cristo%" AND
   books.topic = "jailbreak"
 ');

DBIC: Search

 my $book = $book_rs->search({
    'me.name'  => { -like => '%monte cristo%' },
    'me.topic' => 'jailbreak',
 })->next;
(kinda) introspectible

OO Overridability

"find_or_create" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet
"update_or_create" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet

Need a method to get a user's gravatar URL? Add a "gravatar_url" method to the Result class

RELATIONSHIPS

"belongs_to" in DBIx::Class::Relationship
"has_many" in DBIx::Class::Relationship
"might_have" in DBIx::Class::Relationship
"has_one" in DBIx::Class::Relationship
"many_to_many" in DBIx::Class::Relationship

These things may be in other ORM's, but they are very specific, so doubtful

Create a database from your DBIx::Class schema.

 my $schema = Frew::Schema->connect( $dsn, $user, $pass );
 $schema->deploy

See "deploy" in DBIx::Class::Schema.

See also: DBIx::Class::DeploymentHandler

Create a DBIx::Class schema from your database.

 package Frew::Schema;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use base 'DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader';
 __PACKAGE__->loader_options({
    naming => 'v7',
    debug  => $ENV{DBIC_TRACE},
 });
 1;
 # elsewhere...
 my $schema = Frew::Schema->connect( $dsn, $user, $pass );

See DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader and "CONSTRUCTOR OPTIONS" in DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader::Base.

Made for inserting lots of rows very quickly into database

 $schema->populate([ Users =>
    [qw( username password )],
    [qw( frew     >=4char$ )],
    [qw(      ...          )],
    [qw(      ...          )],
 );

See "populate" in DBIx::Class::Schema

I use populate here <http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/archives/1255> to export our whole (200M~) db to SQLite

Create an object and its related objects all at once

 $schema->resultset('Author')->create({
    name => 'Stephen King',
    books => [{ title => 'The Dark Tower' }],
    address => {
       street => '123 Turtle Back Lane',
       state  => { abbreviation => 'ME' },
       city   => { name => 'Lowell'     },
    },
 });

See "create" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet

DBIx::Class helped pioneer fast MI in Perl 5 with Class::C3, so it is made to allow extensions to nearly every part of it.

(less important but...)

 package MyApp::Schema::ResultSet::Book;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use base 'DBIx::Class::ResultSet';
 sub good {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->search({
       $self->current_source_alias . '.rating' => { '>=' => 4 }
    })
 };
 sub cheap {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->search({
       $self->current_source_alias . '.price' => { '<=' => 5}
    })
 };
 # ...
 1;

See "Predefined searches" in DBIx::Class::Manual::Cookbook

"current_source_alias" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet helps things to work no matter what

 $schema->resultset('Book')->good

 $schema->resultset('Book')
    ->good
    ->cheap
    ->recent
 my $score = $schema->resultset('User')
    ->search({'me.userid' => 'frew'})
    ->related_resultset('access')
    ->related_resultset('mgmt')
    ->related_resultset('orders')
    ->telephone
    ->search_related( shops => {
       'shops.datecompleted' => {
          -between => ['2009-10-01','2009-10-08']
       }
    })->completed
    ->related_resultset('rpt_score')
    ->search(undef, { rows => 1})
    ->get_column('raw_scores')
    ->next;

The SQL that this produces (with placeholders filled in for clarity's sake) on our system (Microsoft SQL) is:

 SELECT raw_scores
   FROM (
     SELECT raw_scores, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (
         ORDER BY (
             SELECT (1)
           )
       ) AS rno__row__index
       FROM (
         SELECT rpt_score.raw_scores
           FROM users me
           JOIN access access
             ON access.userid = me.userid
           JOIN mgmt mgmt
             ON mgmt.mgmtid = access.mgmtid
           JOIN [order] orders
             ON orders.mgmtid = mgmt.mgmtid
           JOIN shop shops
             ON shops.orderno = orders.orderno
           JOIN rpt_scores rpt_score
             ON rpt_score.shopno = shops.shopno
         WHERE (
           datecompleted IS NOT NULL AND
           (
             (shops.datecompleted BETWEEN '2009-10-01' AND '2009-10-08')  AND
             (type = '1' AND me.userid = 'frew')
           )
         )
       ) rpt_score
   ) rpt_score
 WHERE rno__row__index BETWEEN 1 AND 1

See: "related_resultset" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet, "search_related" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet, and "get_column" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet.

 my $book = $author->create_related(
    books => {
       title => 'Another Discworld book',
    }
 );
 my $book2 = $pratchett->add_to_books({
    title => 'MOAR Discworld book',
 });

See "create_related" in DBIx::Class::Relationship::Base and "add_to_$rel" in DBIx::Class::Relationship::Base

Note that it automatically fills in foreign key for you

 $schema->txn_do(sub {
    ...
 });
 $schema->txn_begin; # <-- low level
 # ...
 $schema->txn_commit;

See "txn_do" in DBIx::Class::Schema, "txn_begin" in DBIx::Class::Schema, and "txn_commit" in DBIx::Class::Schema.

 package Frew::Schema::Result::Book;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use base 'DBIx::Class::Core';
 use DateTime::Format::MySQL;
 # Result code here
 __PACKAGE__->load_components('InflateColumn');
 __PACKAGE__->inflate_column(
    date_published => {
       inflate => sub { DateTime::Format::MySQL->parse_date( shift ) },
       deflate => sub { shift->ymd },
    },
 );

See DBIx::Class::InflateColumn, "inflate_column" in DBIx::Class::InflateColumn, and DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::DateTime.

 $book->date_published(DateTime->now);
 $book->update;

 say $book->date_published->month_abbr; # Nov

 package Frew::Schema::Result::Book;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use base 'DBIx::Class::Core';
 # Result code here
 __PACKAGE__->load_components('FilterColumn');
 __PACKAGE__->filter_column(
    length => {
       to_storage   => 'to_metric',
       from_storage => 'to_imperial',
    },
 );
 sub to_metric   { $_[1] * .305 }
 sub to_imperial { $_[1] * 3.28 }

See DBIx::Class::FilterColumn and "filter_column" in DBIx::Class::FilterColumn

 my $rsc = $schema->resultset('Book')->get_column('price');
 $rsc->first;
 $rsc->all;
 $rsc->min;
 $rsc->max;
 $rsc->sum;

See DBIx::Class::ResultSetColumn

 my @res = $rs->search(undef, {
    select   => [
       'price',
       'genre',
       { max => price },
       { avg => price },
    ],
    as       => [
       qw(price genre max_price avg_price)
    ],
    group_by => [qw(price genre)],
 });
 for (@res) {
    say $_->price . ' ' . $_->genre;
    say $_->get_column('max_price');
    say $_->get_column('avg_price');
 }

See "select" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet, "as" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet, and "group_by" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet

HRI

 $rs->search(undef, {
   result_class => 'DBIx::Class::ResultClass::HashRefInflator',
 });

See "result_class" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet and DBIx::Class::ResultClass::HashRefInflator.

 my $inner_query = $schema->resultset('Artist')
    ->search({
     name => [ 'Billy Joel', 'Brittany Spears' ],
 })->get_column('id')->as_query;
 my $rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->search({
     artist_id => { -in => $inner_query },
 });

See "Subqueries" in DBIx::Class::Manual::Cookbook

 $rs->update({
    # !!! SQL INJECTION VECTOR
    price => \"price + $inc", # DON'T DO THIS
 });

Better:

 $rs->update({
    price => \['price + ?', [inc => $inc]],
 });

See "Literal SQL with placeholders and bind values (subqueries)" in SQL::Abstract

Check the list of additional DBIC resources.

This module is free software copyright by the DBIx::Class (DBIC) authors. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the DBIx::Class library.

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