connect_info

The argument list may contain:

• The same 4-element argument set one would normally pass to "connect" in DBI, optionally followed by extra attributes recognized by DBIx::Class:

    $connect_info_args = [ $dsn, $user, $password, \%dbi_attributes?, \%extra_attributes? ];
      

• A single code reference which returns a connected DBI database handle optionally followed by extra attributes recognized by DBIx::Class:

    $connect_info_args = [ sub { DBI->connect (...) }, \%extra_attributes? ];
      

• A single hashref with all the attributes and the dsn/user/password mixed together:

    $connect_info_args = [{
      dsn => $dsn,
      user => $user,
      password => $pass,
      %dbi_attributes,
      %extra_attributes,
    }];
  
    $connect_info_args = [{
      dbh_maker => sub { DBI->connect (...) },
      %dbi_attributes,
      %extra_attributes,
    }];
      

  This is particularly useful for Catalyst based applications, allowing the following config (Config::General style):

    <Model::DB>
      schema_class   App::DB
      <connect_info>
        dsn          dbi:mysql:database=test
        user         testuser
        password     TestPass
        AutoCommit   1
      </connect_info>
    </Model::DB>
      

  The "dsn"/"user"/"password" combination can be substituted by the "dbh_maker" key whose value is a coderef that returns a connected DBI database handle

Please note that the DBI docs recommend that you always explicitly set "AutoCommit" to either 0 or 1. DBIx::Class further recommends that it be set to 1, and that you perform transactions via our "txn_do" in DBIx::Class::Schema method. DBIx::Class will set it to 1 if you do not do explicitly set it to zero. This is the default for most DBDs. See "DBIx::Class and AutoCommit" for details.

DBIx::Class specific connection attributes

In addition to the standard DBI connection attributes, DBIx::Class recognizes the following connection options. These options can be mixed in with your other DBI connection attributes, or placed in a separate hashref ("\%extra_attributes") as shown above.

Every time "connect_info" is invoked, any previous settings for these options will be cleared before setting the new ones, regardless of whether any options are specified in the new "connect_info".

on_connect_do

Specifies things to do immediately after connecting or re-connecting to the database. Its value may contain:

on_disconnect_do

Takes arguments in the same form as "on_connect_do" and executes them immediately before disconnecting from the database.

Note, this only runs if you explicitly call "disconnect" on the storage object.

on_connect_call

A more generalized form of "on_connect_do" that calls the specified "connect_call_METHOD" methods in your storage driver.

  on_connect_do => 'select 1'
    

is equivalent to:

  on_connect_call => [ [ do_sql => 'select 1' ] ]
    

Its values may contain:

on_disconnect_call

Takes arguments in the same form as "on_connect_call" and executes them immediately before disconnecting from the database.

Calls the "disconnect_call_METHOD" methods as opposed to the "connect_call_METHOD" methods called by "on_connect_call".

Note, this only runs if you explicitly call "disconnect" on the storage object.

disable_sth_caching

If set to a true value, this option will disable the caching of statement handles via "prepare_cached" in DBI.

limit_dialect

Sets a specific SQL::Abstract::Limit-style limit dialect, overriding the default "sql_limit_dialect" setting of the storage (if any). For a list of available limit dialects see DBIx::Class::SQLMaker::LimitDialects.

quote_names

When true automatically sets "quote_char" and "name_sep" to the characters appropriate for your particular RDBMS. This option is preferred over specifying "quote_char" directly.

quote_char

Specifies what characters to use to quote table and column names.

"quote_char" expects either a single character, in which case is it is placed on either side of the table/column name, or an arrayref of length 2 in which case the table/column name is placed between the elements.

For example under MySQL you should use "quote_char => '`'", and for SQL Server you should use "quote_char => [qw/[ ]/]".

name_sep

This parameter is only useful in conjunction with "quote_char", and is used to specify the character that separates elements (schemas, tables, columns) from each other. If unspecified it defaults to the most commonly used ".".

unsafe

This Storage driver normally installs its own "HandleError", sets "RaiseError" and "ShowErrorStatement" on, and sets "PrintError" off on all database handles, including those supplied by a coderef. It does this so that it can have consistent and useful error behavior.

If you set this option to a true value, Storage will not do its usual modifications to the database handle's attributes, and instead relies on the settings in your connect_info DBI options (or the values you set in your connection coderef, in the case that you are connecting via coderef).

Note that your custom settings can cause Storage to malfunction, especially if you set a "HandleError" handler that suppresses exceptions and/or disable "RaiseError".

auto_savepoint

If this option is true, DBIx::Class will use savepoints when nesting transactions, making it possible to recover from failure in the inner transaction without having to abort all outer transactions.

cursor_class

Use this argument to supply a cursor class other than the default DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Cursor.

Some real-life examples of arguments to "connect_info" and "connect" in DBIx::Class::Schema

  # Simple SQLite connection
  ->connect_info([ 'dbi:SQLite:./foo.db' ]);

  # Connect via subref
  ->connect_info([ sub { DBI->connect(...) } ]);

  # Connect via subref in hashref
  ->connect_info([{
    dbh_maker => sub { DBI->connect(...) },
    on_connect_do => 'alter session ...',
  }]);

  # A bit more complicated
  ->connect_info(
    [
      'dbi:Pg:dbname=foo',
      'postgres',
      'my_pg_password',
      { AutoCommit => 1 },
      { quote_char => q{"} },
    ]
  );

  # Equivalent to the previous example
  ->connect_info(
    [
      'dbi:Pg:dbname=foo',
      'postgres',
      'my_pg_password',
      { AutoCommit => 1, quote_char => q{"}, name_sep => q{.} },
    ]
  );

  # Same, but with hashref as argument
  # See parse_connect_info for explanation
  ->connect_info(
    [{
      dsn         => 'dbi:Pg:dbname=foo',
      user        => 'postgres',
      password    => 'my_pg_password',
      AutoCommit  => 1,
      quote_char  => q{"},
      name_sep    => q{.},
    }]
  );

  # Subref + DBIx::Class-specific connection options
  ->connect_info(
    [
      sub { DBI->connect(...) },
      {
          quote_char => q{`},
          name_sep => q{@},
          on_connect_do => ['SET search_path TO myschema,otherschema,public'],
          disable_sth_caching => 1,
      },
    ]
  );

on_connect_do

on_disconnect_do

dbh_do

Execute the given $subref or $method_name using the new exception-based connection management.

The first two arguments will be the storage object that "dbh_do" was called on and a database handle to use. Any additional arguments will be passed verbatim to the called subref as arguments 2 and onwards.

Using this (instead of $self->_dbh or $self->dbh) ensures correct exception handling and reconnection (or failover in future subclasses).

Your subref should have no side-effects outside of the database, as there is the potential for your subref to be partially double-executed if the database connection was stale/dysfunctional.

Example:

  my @stuff = $schema->storage->dbh_do(
    sub {
      my ($storage, $dbh, @cols) = @_;
      my $cols = join(q{, }, @cols);
      $dbh->selectrow_array("SELECT $cols FROM foo");
    },
    @column_list
  );

disconnect

with_deferred_fk_checks

Arguments: $coderef

Return Value: The return value of $coderef

Storage specific method to run the code ref with FK checks deferred or in MySQL's case disabled entirely.

connected

Arguments: none

Return Value: 1|0

Verifies that the current database handle is active and ready to execute an SQL statement (e.g. the connection did not get stale, server is still answering, etc.) This method is used internally by "dbh".

dbh

connect_call_datetime_setup

 on_connect_call => 'datetime_setup'

This way one does not need to know in advance whether the underlying storage requires any sort of hand-holding when dealing with calendar data.

connect_call_rebase_sqlmaker

This infrastructure is provided to aid recent activity around experimental new aproaches to SQL generation within DBIx::Class. You can (and are encouraged to) mix and match old and new within the same codebase as follows:

  package DBIx::Class::Awesomer::SQLMaker;
  # you MUST inherit in this order to get the composition right
  # you are free to override-without-next::method any part you need
  use base qw(
    DBIx::Class::SQLMaker::ClassicExtensions
    << OPTIONAL::AWESOME::Class::Implementing::ExtraRainbowSauce >>
    SQL::Abstract::Classic
  );
  << your new code goes here >>


  ... and then ...


  my $experimental_schema = $original_schema->connect(
    sub {
      $original_schema->storage->dbh
    },
    {
      # the nested arrayref is important, as per
      # https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI#on_connect_call
      on_connect_call => [ [ rebase_sqlmaker => 'DBIx::Class::Awesomer::SQLMaker' ] ],
    },
  );

select

Arguments: $ident, $select, $condition, $attrs

Handle a SQL select statement.

sql_limit_dialect

last_insert_id

_native_data_type

Arguments: $type_name

This API is EXPERIMENTAL, will almost definitely change in the future, and currently only used by ::AutoCast and ::Sybase::ASE.

The default implementation returns "undef", implement in your Storage driver if you need this functionality.

Should map types from other databases to the native RDBMS type, for example "VARCHAR2" to "VARCHAR".

Types with modifiers should map to the underlying data type. For example, "INTEGER AUTO_INCREMENT" should become "INTEGER".

Composite types should map to the container type, for example "ENUM(foo,bar,baz)" becomes "ENUM".

sqlt_type

bind_attribute_by_data_type

This method is always called after the driver has been determined and a DBI connection has been established. Therefore you can refer to "DBI::$constant" and/or "DBD::$driver::$constant" directly, without worrying about loading the correct modules.

is_datatype_numeric

create_ddl_dir

Arguments: $schema, \@databases, $version, $directory, $preversion, \%sqlt_args

Creates a SQL file based on the Schema, for each of the specified database engines in "\@databases" in the given directory. (note: specify SQL::Translator names, not DBI driver names).

Given a previous version number, this will also create a file containing the ALTER TABLE statements to transform the previous schema into the current one. Note that these statements may contain "DROP TABLE" or "DROP COLUMN" statements that can potentially destroy data.

The file names are created using the "ddl_filename" method below, please override this method in your schema if you would like a different file name format. For the ALTER file, the same format is used, replacing $version in the name with "$preversion-$version".

See "METHODS" in SQL::Translator for a list of values for "\%sqlt_args". The most common value for this would be "{ add_drop_table => 1 }" to have the SQL produced include a "DROP TABLE" statement for each table created. For quoting purposes supply "quote_identifiers".

If no arguments are passed, then the following default values are assumed:

databases - ['MySQL', 'SQLite', 'PostgreSQL']

version - $schema->schema_version

directory - './'

preversion - <none>

By default, "\%sqlt_args" will have

 { add_drop_table => 1, ignore_constraint_names => 1, ignore_index_names => 1 }

merged with the hash passed in. To disable any of those features, pass in a hashref like the following

 { ignore_constraint_names => 0, # ... other options }

WARNING: You are strongly advised to check all SQL files created, before applying them.

deployment_statements

Arguments: $schema, $type, $version, $directory, $sqlt_args

Returns the statements used by "deploy" in DBIx::Class::Storage and "deploy" in DBIx::Class::Schema.

The SQL::Translator (not DBI) database driver name can be explicitly provided in $type, otherwise the result of "sqlt_type" is used as default.

$directory is used to return statements from files in a previously created "create_ddl_dir" directory and is optional. The filenames are constructed from "ddl_filename" in DBIx::Class::Schema, the schema name and the $version.

If no $directory is specified then the statements are constructed on the fly using SQL::Translator and $version is ignored.

See "METHODS" in SQL::Translator for a list of values for $sqlt_args.

datetime_parser

datetime_parser_type

build_datetime_parser

is_replicating

lag_behind_master

relname_to_table_alias

Arguments: $relname, $join_count

Return Value: $alias

DBIx::Class uses DBIx::Class::Relationship names as table aliases in queries.

This hook is to allow specific DBIx::Class::Storage drivers to change the way these aliases are named.

The default behavior is ""$relname_$join_count" if $join_count > 1", otherwise "$relname".

DBIx::Class and AutoCommit

If you set "AutoCommit => 0" in your connect info, then you are always in an assumed transaction between commits, and you're telling us you'd like to manage that manually. A lot of the magic protections offered by this module will go away. We can't protect you from exceptions due to database disconnects because we don't know anything about how to restart your transactions. You're on your own for handling all sorts of exceptional cases if you choose the "AutoCommit => 0" path, just as you would be with raw DBI.