DBIx::Class::Helper::Row::SubClass(3)

NAME
DBIx::Class::Helper::Row::SubClass - Convenient subclassing with DBIx::Class

SYNOPSIS
 # define parent class
 package ParentSchema::Result::Bar;

 use strict;
 use warnings;

 use parent 'DBIx::Class';

 __PACKAGE__->load_components('Core');

 __PACKAGE__->table('Bar');

 __PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/ id foo_id /);

 __PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('id');

 __PACKAGE__->belongs_to( foo => 'ParentSchema::Result::Foo', 'foo_id' );

 # define subclass
 package MySchema::Result::Bar;

 use strict;
 use warnings;

 use parent 'ParentSchema::Result::Bar';

 __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw{Helper::Row::SubClass Core});

 __PACKAGE__->subclass;

or with DBIx::Class::Candy:

 # define subclass
 package MySchema::Result::Bar;

 use DBIx::Class::Candy
    -base => 'ParentSchema::Result::Bar',
    -components => ['Helper::Row::SubClass'];

 subclass;

DESCRIPTION
This component is to allow simple subclassing of DBIx::Class Result classes.

METHODS

  subclass
This is probably the method you want. You call this in your child class and it imports the definitions from the parent into itself.

  generate_relationships
This is where the cool stuff happens. This assumes that the namespace is laid out in the recommended "MyApp::Schema::Result::Foo" format. If the parent has "Parent::Schema::Result::Foo" related to "Parent::Schema::Result::Bar", and you inherit from "Parent::Schema::Result::Foo" in "MyApp::Schema::Result::Foo", you will automatically get the relationship to "MyApp::Schema::Result::Bar".

  set_table
This is a super basic method that just sets the current classes' table to the parent classes' table.

CANDY EXPORTS
If used in conjunction with DBIx::Class::Candy this component will export:

join_table
subclass
generate_relationships
set_table

NOTE
This Component is mostly aimed at those who want to subclass parts of a schema, maybe for sharing a login system in a few different projects. Do not confuse it with DBIx::Class::DynamicSubclass, which solves an entirely different problem. DBIx::Class::DynamicSubclass is for when you want to store a few very similar classes in the same table (Employee, Person, Boss, etc) whereas this component is merely for reusing an existing schema.

AUTHOR
Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt <frioux+cpan@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.