New stuff in this release - Join support Prefetch support (ala ActiveRecord :include) Native has_a, has_many, might_have, belongs_to relationship helpers Improved CDBICompat layer with additional tests (CDBICompat will now work some places Class::DBI fails) Improved reference docs (new user docs still non-existant, sorry) Even more tests
If your CPAN mirror doesn't have it yet, try http://trout.me.uk/perl/DBIx-Class-0.03.tar.gz README follows (will missing contributors please mail me) ===============> NAME DBIx::Class - Because the brain is a terrible thing to waste. DESCRIPTION This is a sql to oop mapper, inspired by the Class::DBI framework, and meant to support compability with it, while restructuring the insides, and making it possible to support some new features like self-joins, distinct, group bys and more. It's currently considered EXPERIMENTAL - bring this near a production database at your own risk! The API is *not* fixed yet, although most of the primitives should be good for the future and any API changes will be posted to the mailing list before they're committed. 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 QUICKSTART If you're using Class::DBI, replacing use base qw/Class::DBI/; with use base qw/DBIx::Class/; __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/CDBICompat Core DB/); will probably get you started. If you're using AUTO_INCREMENT for your primary columns, you'll also want to load the approriate PK::Auto subclass - e.g. __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/CDBICompat PK::Auto::SQLite Core DB/); (with is what ::Test::SQLite does to present the Class::DBI::Test::SQLite interface) If you fancy playing around with DBIx::Class from scratch, then read the docs for DBIx::Class::Table, ::Row, ::Schema, ::DB and ::Relationship, use base qw/DBIx::Class/; __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/Core DB/); and have a look at t/lib/DBICTest.pm for a brief example. AUTHOR Matt S. Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CONTRIBUTORS Andy Grundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dan Kubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dan Sully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> davekam Marcus Ramberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LICENSE You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself. -- Matt S Trout Specialists in perl consulting, web development, and Technical Director UNIX/Linux systems architecture and automation. Mail Shadowcat Systems Ltd. mst (at) shadowcatsystems.co.uk for more information + Help us build a better perl ORM: http://dbix-class.shadowcatsystems.co.uk/ +