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 L 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 features added in the latest major release may not work 100% yet -- check the Changes if you run into trouble, and beware of anything explicitly marked EXPERIMENTAL. Failing test cases are *always* welcome and point releases are put out rapidly as bugs are found and fixed. Even so, we do our best to maintain full backwards compatibility for published APIs, since DBIx::Class is used in production in a number of organisations. 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.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class/ SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/trunk/DBIx-Class/ Wiki: http://dbix-class.shadowcatsystems.co.uk/ 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 CONTRIBUTORS abraxxa: Alexander Hartmaier andyg: Andy Grundman ank: Andres Kievsky blblack: Brandon Black LTJake: Brian Cassidy claco: Christopher H. Laco clkao: CL Kao typester: Daisuke Murase dkubb: Dan Kubb Numa: Dan Sully dwc: Daniel Westermann-Clark ningu: David Kamholz jesper: Jesper Krogh castaway: Jess Robinson quicksilver: Jules Bean jguenther: Justin Guenther draven: Marcus Ramberg nigel: Nigel Metheringham paulm: Paul Makepeace phaylon: Robert Sedlacek sc_: Just Another Perl Hacker konobi: Scott McWhirter scotty: Scotty Allen sszabo: Stephan Szabo captainL: Luke Saunders Todd Lipcon wdh: Will Hawes LICENSE You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.