package DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::DateTime; use strict; use warnings; use base qw/DBIx::Class/; =head1 NAME DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::DateTime - Auto-create DateTime objects from date and datetime columns. =head1 SYNOPSIS Load this component and then declare one or more columns to be of the datetime, timestamp or date datatype. package Event; __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/InflateColumn::DateTime Core/); __PACKAGE__->add_columns( starts_when => { data_type => 'datetime' } ); Then you can treat the specified column as a L object. print "This event starts the month of ". $event->starts_when->month_name(); If you want to set a specific timezone for that field, use: __PACKAGE__->add_columns( starts_when => { data_type => 'datetime', extra => { timezone => "America/Chicago" } } ); =head1 DESCRIPTION This module figures out the type of DateTime::Format::* class to inflate/deflate with based on the type of DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::* that you are using. If you switch from one database to a different one your code should continue to work without modification (though note that this feature is new as of 0.07, so it may not be perfect yet - bug reports to the list very much welcome). For more help with using components, see L. =cut __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/InflateColumn/); __PACKAGE__->mk_group_accessors('simple' => '__datetime_parser'); =head2 register_column Chains with the L method, and sets up datetime columns appropriately. This would not normally be directly called by end users. =cut sub register_column { my ($self, $column, $info, @rest) = @_; $self->next::method($column, $info, @rest); return unless defined($info->{data_type}); my $type = lc($info->{data_type}); $type = 'datetime' if ($type =~ /^timestamp/); my $timezone; if ( exists $info->{extra} and exists $info->{extra}{timezone} and defined $info->{extra}{timezone} ) { $timezone = $info->{extra}{timezone}; } if ($type eq 'datetime' || $type eq 'date') { my ($parse, $format) = ("parse_${type}", "format_${type}"); $self->inflate_column( $column => { inflate => sub { my ($value, $obj) = @_; my $dt = $obj->_datetime_parser->$parse($value); $dt->set_time_zone($timezone) if $timezone; return $dt; }, deflate => sub { my ($value, $obj) = @_; $value->set_time_zone($timezone) if $timezone; $obj->_datetime_parser->$format($value); }, } ); } } sub _datetime_parser { my $self = shift; if (my $parser = $self->__datetime_parser) { return $parser; } my $parser = $self->result_source->storage->datetime_parser(@_); return $self->__datetime_parser($parser); } 1; __END__ =head1 SEE ALSO =over 4 =item More information about the add_columns method, and column metadata, can be found in the documentation for L. =back =head1 AUTHOR Matt S. Trout =head1 CONTRIBUTORS Aran Deltac =head1 LICENSE You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.