package Class::DBI::Loader::Relationship; use 5.006; use strict; use warnings; our $VERSION = '1.3'; our $DEBUG = 0; 1; =head1 NAME Class::DBI::Loader::Relationship - Easier relationship specification in CDBI::Loader =head1 SYNOPSIS use Class::DBI::Loader::Relationship; my $loader = Class::DBI::Loader->new( dsn => "mysql:beerdb", namespace => "BeerDB"); Now instead of saying BeerDB::Brewery->has_many(beers => "BeerDB::Beer"); BeerDB::Beer->has_a(brewery => "BeerDB::Brewery"); BeerDB::Handpump->has_a(beer => "BeerDB::Beer"); BeerDB::Handpump->has_a(pub => "BeerDB::Pub"); BeerDB::Pub->has_many(beers => [ BeerDB::Handpump => 'beer' ]); BeerDB::Beer->has_many(pubs => [ BeerDB::Handpump => 'pub' ]); Just say $loader->relationship( "a brewery produces beers" ); $loader->relationship( "a pub has beers on handpumps" ); And something like ( upgraded in v1.3 ) MyApp::Page->has_a( author => 'MyApp::User' ); MyApp::Page->has_many( revisions => 'MyApp::PageRevision' ); Just say $loader->relationship( "a page has an user as author" ); $loader->relationship( "a page has many page_revisions as revisions" ); =head1 DESCRIPTION This module acts as a mix-in, adding the C method to C. Since C knows how to map between table names and class names, there ought to be no need to replicate the names. In addition, it is common (but not universal) to want reverse relationships defined for has-many relationships, and for has-a relationships to be defined for the linkages surrounding a many-to-many table. The aim of C is to simplify the declaration of common database relationships by providing both of these features. The C takes a string. It recognises table names (singular or plural, for convenience) and extracts them from the "sentence". =cut package Class::DBI::Loader::Generic; use Lingua::EN::Inflect::Number qw(PL to_PL to_S); use Carp; sub relationship { my $self = shift; my $text = shift; my %tables = map { $_ => $_, PL($_) => $_ } $self->tables; my $table_re = join "|", map quotemeta, sort { length $b <=> length $a } keys %tables; croak "Couldn't understand the first object you were talking about" unless $text =~ s/^((an?|the)\s+)?($table_re)\s*//i; my $from = $tables{$3}; my $from_c = $self->find_class($from); $text =~ s/^(might\s+)?\w+(\s+an?)?\s+//i; my $method = "has_many"; $method = "has_a" if $2; $method = "might_have" if $1; croak "Couldn't understand the second object you were talking about" unless $text =~ s/.*?($table_re)\b//i; my $to = $tables{$1}; my $to_c = $self->find_class($to); my $mapper = $method eq "has_many" ? to_PL($to) : to_S($to); $mapper = $1 if $text =~ s/\s+as\s+(\w+)$//i; if ($text =~ /($table_re)/i) { my $via = $tables{$1}; my $via_c = $self->find_class($via); return "$via_c->has_a(".to_S($from)." => $from_c)\n". "$via_c->has_a(".to_S($to)." => $to_c)\n". "$from_c->$method($mapper => [ $via_c => ".to_S($to)." ])\n". "$to_c->has_many(".to_PL($from)." => [ $via_c => ".to_S($from)." ])\n" if $DEBUG; $via_c->has_a(to_S($from) => $from_c); $via_c->has_a(to_S($to) => $to_c); $from_c->$method($mapper => [ $via_c => to_S($to) ]); $to_c->has_many(to_PL($from) => [ $via_c => to_S($from) ]); return; } return "$from_c->$method($mapper => $to_c);\n". ($method ne "has_a" && "$to_c->has_a(".to_S($from)." => $from_c);\n") if $DEBUG; $from_c->$method($mapper => $to_c); $to_c->has_a(to_S($from) => $from_c) unless $method eq "has_a"; } 1; =head1 AUTHOR Simon Cozens, C Chunzi, C =head1 SEE ALSO L. =cut