NAME

Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Plain - DBIC Model Class

SYNOPSIS

    # lib/MyApp/Model/DBIC.pm
    package MyApp::Model::DBIC;
    use base 'Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Plain';
    my @conn_info = ( $dsn, $username, $password, \%dbi_attributes );
    __PACKAGE__->load_classes;
    __PACKAGE__->compose_connection(__PACKAGE__, @conn_info);
    1;
    # lib/MyApp/Model/DBIC/User.pm
    package MyApp::Model::DBIC::User;
    use base 'DBIx::Class::Core';
    __PACKAGE__->table('user');
    __PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/id username password email clearance/);
    __PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('id');
    __PACKAGE__->add_relationship(
        clearance => 'MyApp::Model::DBIC::Clearance',
        { 'foreign.id => 'self.clearance' }
    );
    # lib/MyApp/Controller/MyController.pm
    $c->comp('DBIC')->class('user')->search(...);
    # or
    MyApp::Model::DBIC::User->search(...);

DESCRIPTION

This is the "DBIx::Class" model class for Catalyst. Whilst it allows you to use DBIC as your model in Catalyst, it does not make your tables classes Catalyst-specific, so you can still use them in a non-Catalyst context.

SEE ALSO

Catalyst, DBIx::Class

AUTHOR

Danijel Milicevic, "info@danijel.de"

THANK YOU

Dan Kubb, Matt S. Trout

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.