package DBIx::Class::ResultClass::HashRefInflator; use strict; use warnings; =head1 NAME DBIx::Class::ResultClass::HashRefInflator - Get raw hashrefs from a resultset =head1 SYNOPSIS use DBIx::Class::ResultClass::HashRefInflator; my $rs = $schema->resultset('CD'); $rs->result_class('DBIx::Class::ResultClass::HashRefInflator'); while (my $hashref = $rs->next) { ... } =head1 DESCRIPTION DBIx::Class is faster than older ORMs like Class::DBI but it still isn't designed primarily for speed. Sometimes you need to quickly retrieve the data from a massive resultset, while skipping the creation of fancy row objects. Specifying this class as a C for a resultset will change C<< $rs->next >> to return a plain data hash-ref (or a list of such hash-refs if C<< $rs->all >> is used). There are two ways of applying this class to a resultset: =over =item * Specify C<< $rs->result_class >> on a specific resultset to affect only that resultset (and any chained off of it); or =item * Specify C<< __PACKAGE__->result_class >> on your source object to force all uses of that result source to be inflated to hash-refs - this approach is not recommended. =back =cut ############## # NOTE # # Generally people use this to gain as much speed as possible. If a new &mk_hash is # implemented, it should be benchmarked using the maint/benchmark_hashrefinflator.pl # script (in addition to passing all tests of course :). Additional instructions are # provided in the script itself. # # This coderef is a simple recursive function # Arguments: ($me, $prefetch) from inflate_result() below my $mk_hash; $mk_hash = sub { if (ref $_[0] eq 'ARRAY') { # multi relationship return [ map { $mk_hash->(@$_) || () } (@_) ]; } else { my $hash = { # the main hash could be an undef if we are processing a skipped-over join $_[0] ? %{$_[0]} : (), # the second arg is a hash of arrays for each prefetched relation map { $_ => $mk_hash->( @{$_[1]->{$_}} ) } ( $_[1] ? (keys %{$_[1]}) : () ) }; # if there is at least one defined column consider the resultset real # (and not an emtpy has_many rel containing one empty hashref) for (values %$hash) { return $hash if defined $_; } return undef; } }; =head1 METHODS =head2 inflate_result Inflates the result and prefetched data into a hash-ref (invoked by L) =cut ################################################################################## # inflate_result is invoked as: # HRI->inflate_result ($resultsource_instance, $main_data_hashref, $prefetch_data_hashref) sub inflate_result { return $mk_hash->($_[2], $_[3]); } =head1 CAVEATS =over =item * This will not work for relationships that have been prefetched. Consider the following: my $artist = $artitsts_rs->search({}, {prefetch => 'cds' })->first; my $cds = $artist->cds; $cds->result_class('DBIx::Class::ResultClass::HashRefInflator'); my $first = $cds->first; C<$first> will B be a hashref, it will be a normal CD row since HashRefInflator only affects resultsets at inflation time, and prefetch causes relations to be inflated when the master C<$artist> row is inflated. =back =cut 1;