Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : libdbix-contextualfetch-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Tony Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TM/TMTM/ * License : GPL (v1 or greater) or Perl Artistic Description : Add context aware fetches to DBI
The Perl database independent interface - DBI - does not take much advantage of Perl's context sensitivity. This is the situation where a Perl subroutine knows whether the caller wants a single scalar value or a list of them to be returned. . DBIx::ContextualFetch is a sub-class of DBI which redefines some of the various fetch methods to fix this oversight. It also adds a few new methods for convenience (though not necessarily efficiency). Much of this code was originally part of the IMA::DBI Perl module (libima-dbi-perl package). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.3 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C