NAME¶
Mixin::ExtraFields::Driver - a backend for extra field storage
VERSION¶
version 0.140001
SYNOPSIS¶
This is really not something you'd use on your own, it's just used by
Mixin::ExtraFields, but if you insist...
my $driver = Mixin::ExtraFields::Driver::Phlogiston->from_args(\%arg);
$driver->set($obj, $obj_id, flammable => "very!");
DESCRIPTION¶
Mixin::ExtraFields::Driver is a base class for drivers used by
Mixin::ExtraFields -- hence the name. A driver is expected to store and
retrieve data keyed to an object and a name or key. It can store this in any
way it likes, and does not need to guarantee persistence across processes.
SUBCLASSING¶
All drivers must implement the four methods listed below. The base class has
implementations of these methods which will die noisily
("confess"-ing) when called.
Almost all methods are passed the same data as their first two arguments:
$object, the object for which the driver is to find or alter data, and $id,
that object's unique id. While this may be slighly redundant, it keeps the
id-finding call in one place.
from_args¶
my $driver = Mixin::ExtraFields::Driver::Subclass->from_args(\%arg);
This method must return a driver object appropriate to the given args. It is not
called "new" because it need not return a new object for each call
to it. Returning identical objects for identical configurations may be safe
for some driver implementations, and it is expressly allowed.
The arguments passed to this method are those given as the "driver"
option to the "fields" import group in Mixin::ExtraFields, less the
"class" option.
my %extra = $driver->get_all_detailed_extra($object, $id);
This method must return all available information about all existing extra
fields for the given object. It must be returned as a list of name/value
pairs. The values must be references to hashes. Each hash must have an entry
for the key "value" giving the value for that name.
$driver->set_extra($object, $id, $name, $value);
This method must set the named extra to the given value.
$driver->delete_extra($object, $id, $name);
This method must delete the named extra, causing it to cease to exist.
OPTIMIZING¶
The methods below can all be implemented in terms of those above. If they are
not provided by the subclass, basic implementations exist. These
implementations may be less efficient than implementations crafted for the
specifics of the storage engine behind the driver, so authors of driver
subclasses should consider implementing these methods.
my %extra = $driver->get_all_extra($object, $id);
This method behaves like "get_all_detailed_extra", above, but provides
the entry's value, not a detailed hashref, as the value for each entry.
my $value = $driver->get_extra($object, $id, $name);
my $hash = $driver->get_detailed_extra($object, $id, $name);
These methods return a single value requested by name, either as the value
itself or a detailed hashref describing it.
my @names = $driver->get_all_extra_names($object, $id);
This method returns the names of all existing extras for the given object.
if ($driver->exists_extra($object, $id, $name)) { ... }
This method returns true if an entry exists for the given name and false
otherwise.
$driver->delete_all_extra($object, $id);
This method deletes all extras for the object, as per the
"delete_extra" method.
AUTHOR¶
This code was written by Ricardo SIGNES. His code in 2006 was sponsored by
Listbox.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶
Copyright (C) 2006, Ricardo SIGNES. This code is free software, and is available
under the same terms as perl itself.
AUTHOR¶
Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Ricardo Signes.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.