man Class::DBI::Loader () - Dynamic definition of Class::DBI sub classes.
NAME
Class::DBI::Loader - Dynamic definition of Class::DBI sub classes.
SYNOPSIS
use Class::DBI::Loader;
  my $loader = Class::DBI::Loader->new(
    dsn                     => "dbi:mysql:dbname",
    user                    => "root",
    password                => "",
    namespace               => "Data",
    additional_classes      => qw/Class::DBI::AbstractSearch/,
    additional_base_classes => qw/My::Stuff/,
    left_base_classes       => qw/Class::DBI::Sweet/,
    constraint              => '^foo.*',
    relationships           => 1,
    inflect                 => { child => 'children' }
  );
  my $class = $loader->find_class('film'); # $class => Data::Film
  my $obj = $class->retrieve(1);
use with mod_perl
in your startup.pl
  # load all tables
  use Class::DBI::Loader;
  my $loader = Class::DBI::Loader->new(
    dsn       => "dbi:mysql:dbname",
    user      => "root",
    password  => "",
    namespace => "Data",
  );
in your web application.
use strict;
# you can use Data::Film directly my $film = Data::Film->retrieve($id);
DESCRIPTION
Class::DBI::Loader automate the definition of Class::DBI sub-classes. scan table schemas and setup columns, primary key.
class names are defined by table names and namespace option.
+-----------+-----------+-----------+ | table | namespace | class | +-----------+-----------+-----------+ | foo | Data | Data::Foo | | foo_bar | | FooBar | +-----------+-----------+-----------+
Class::DBI::Loader supports MySQL, Postgres and SQLite.
See Class::DBI::Loader::Generic.
AUTHOR
Sebastian Riedel, CWsri@oook.de
AUTHOR EMERITUS
IKEBE Tomohiro, CWikebe@edge.co.jp
THANK YOU
Adam Anderson, Andy Grundman, Dan Kubb, David Naughton, Randal Schwartz, Simon Flack and all the others who've helped.
LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
Class::DBI, Class::DBI::mysql, Class::DBI::Pg, Class::DBI::SQLite, Class::DBI::Loader::Generic, Class::DBI::Loader::mysql, Class::DBI::Loader::Pg, Class::DBI::Loader::SQLite