package DBIx::Class::Schema; use strict; use warnings; use base qw/Class::Data::Inheritable/; use base qw/DBIx::Class/; __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/Exception Componentised/); __PACKAGE__->mk_classdata('class_registrations' => {}); =head1 NAME DBIx::Class::Schema - composable schemas =head1 SYNOPSIS in My/Schema.pm package My::Schema; use base qw/DBIx::Class::Schema/; __PACKAGE__->load_classes(qw/Foo Bar Baz/); in My/Schema/Foo.pm package My::Schema::Foo; use base qw/DBIx::Class::Core/; __PACKAGE__->table('foo'); ... in My/DB.pm use My::Schema; My::Schema->compose_connection('My::DB', $dsn, $user, $pass, $attrs); then in app code my @obj = My::DB::Foo->search({}); # My::DB::Foo isa My::Schema::Foo My::DB =head1 DESCRIPTION Creates database classes based on a schema. This allows you to have more than one concurrent connection using the same database classes, by making subclasses under a new namespace for each connection. If you only need one class, you should probably use L directly instead. =head1 METHODS =over 4 =item register_class Registers the class in the schema's class_registrations. This is a hash containing database classes, keyed by their monikers. It's used by compose_connection to create/modify all the existing database classes. =cut sub register_class { my ($class, $name, $to_register) = @_; my %reg = %{$class->class_registrations}; $reg{$name} = $to_register; $class->class_registrations(\%reg); } =item registered_classes Simple read-only accessor for the schema's registered classes. See register_class above if you want to modify it. =cut sub registered_classes { return values %{shift->class_registrations}; } =item load_classes [} Uses L to find all classes under the database class' namespace, or uses the classes you select. Then it loads the component (using L), and registers them (using B); =cut sub load_classes { my $class = shift; my @comp = grep { $_ !~ /^#/ } @_; unless (@comp) { eval "require Module::Find;"; $class->throw("No arguments to load_classes and couldn't load". " Module::Find ($@)") if $@; @comp = map { substr $_, length "${class}::" } Module::Find::findallmod($class); } foreach my $comp (@comp) { my $comp_class = "${class}::${comp}"; eval "use $comp_class"; # If it fails, assume the user fixed it $class->register_class($comp => $comp_class); } } =item compose_connection <@db_info> This is the most important method in this class. it takes a target namespace, as well as dbh connection info, and creates a L class as well as subclasses for each of your database classes in this namespace, using this connection. It will also setup a ->table method on the target class, which lets you resolve database classes based on the schema component name, for example MyApp::DB->table('Foo') # returns MyApp::DB::Foo, # which ISA MyApp::Schema::Foo This is the recommended API for accessing Schema generated classes, and using it might give you instant advantages with future versions of DBIC. =cut sub compose_connection { my ($class, $target, @info) = @_; my $conn_class = "${target}::_db"; $class->setup_connection_class($conn_class, @info); my %reg = %{ $class->class_registrations }; my %target; my %map; while (my ($comp, $comp_class) = each %reg) { my $target_class = "${target}::${comp}"; $class->inject_base($target_class, $conn_class, $comp_class); $target_class->table($comp_class->table); @map{$comp, $comp_class} = ($target_class, $target_class); } { no strict 'refs'; *{"${target}::class"} = sub { my ($class, $to_map) = @_; return $map{$to_map}; }; *{"${target}::classes"} = sub { return \%map; }; } $conn_class->class_resolver($target); } =item setup_connection_class <$target> <@info> Sets up a database connection class to inject between the schema and the subclasses the schema creates. =cut sub setup_connection_class { my ($class, $target, @info) = @_; $class->inject_base($target => 'DBIx::Class'); $target->load_components('DB'); $target->connection(@info); } 1; =back =head1 AUTHORS Matt S. Trout =head1 LICENSE You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut