NAME
    DBIx::Class - Extensible and flexible object <-> relational mapper.

SYNOPSIS
    Create a schema class called DB/Main.pm:

      package DB::Main;
      use base qw/DBIx::Class::Schema/;

      __PACKAGE__->load_classes();

      1;

    Create a table class to represent artists, who have many CDs, in
    DB/Main/Artist.pm:

      package DB::Main::Artist;
      use base qw/DBIx::Class/;

      __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/PK::Auto Core/);
      __PACKAGE__->table('artist');
      __PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/ artistid name /);
      __PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('artistid');
      __PACKAGE__->has_many(cds => 'DB::Main::CD');

      1;

    A table class to represent a CD, which belongs to an artist, in
    DB/Main/CD.pm:

      package DB::Main::CD;
      use base qw/DBIx::Class/;

      __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/PK::Auto Core/);
      __PACKAGE__->table('cd');
      __PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/ cdid artist title year /);
      __PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('cdid');
      __PACKAGE__->belongs_to(artist => 'DB::Main::Artist');

      1;

    Then you can use these classes in your application's code:

      # Connect to your database.
      use DB::Main;
      my $schema = DB::Main->connect($dbi_dsn, $user, $pass, \%dbi_params);

      # Query for all artists and put them in an array,
      # or retrieve them as a result set object.
      my @all_artists = $schema->resultset('Artist')->all;
      my $all_artists_rs = $schema->resultset('Artist');

      # Create a result set to search for artists.
      # This does not query the DB.
      my $johns_rs = $schema->resultset('Artist')->search(
        # Build your WHERE using an SQL::Abstract structure:
        { name => { like => 'John%' } }
      );

      # Execute a joined query to get the cds.
      my @all_john_cds = $johns_rs->search_related('cds')->all;

      # Fetch only the next row.
      my $first_john = $johns_rs->next;

      # Specify ORDER BY on the query.
      my $first_john_cds_by_title_rs = $first_john->cds(
        undef,
        { order_by => 'title' }
      );

      # Create a result set that will fetch the artist relationship
      # at the same time as it fetches CDs, using only one query.
      my $millennium_cds_rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->search(
        { year => 2000 },
        { prefetch => 'artist' }
      );

      my $cd = $millennium_cds_rs->next; # SELECT ... FROM cds JOIN artists ...
      my $cd_artist_name = $cd->artist->name; # Already has the data so no query

      # new() makes a DBIx::Class::Row object but doesnt insert it into the DB.
      # create() is the same as new() then insert().
      my $new_cd = $schema->resultset('CD')->new({ title => 'Spoon' });
      $new_cd->artist($cd->artist);
      $new_cd->insert; # Auto-increment primary key filled in after INSERT
      $new_cd->title('Fork');

      $schema->txn_do(sub { $new_cd->update }); # Runs the update in a transaction

      $millennium_cds_rs->update({ year => 2002 }); # Single-query bulk update

DESCRIPTION
    This is an SQL to OO mapper with an object API inspired by Class::DBI
    (and a compatibility layer as a springboard for porting) and a resultset
    API that allows abstract encapsulation of database operations. It aims
    to make representing queries in your code as perl-ish as possible while
    still providing access to as many of the capabilities of the database as
    possible, including retrieving related records from multiple tables in a
    single query, JOIN, LEFT JOIN, COUNT, DISTINCT, GROUP BY and HAVING
    support.

    DBIx::Class can handle multi-column primary and foreign keys, complex
    queries and database-level paging, and does its best to only query the
    database in order to return something you've directly asked for. If a
    resultset is used as an iterator it only fetches rows off the statement
    handle as requested in order to minimise memory usage. It has
    auto-increment support for SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server
    and DB2 and is known to be used in production on at least the first
    four, and is fork- and thread-safe out of the box (although your DBD may
    not be).

    This project is still under rapid development, so large new features may
    be marked EXPERIMENTAL - such APIs are still usable but may have edge
    bugs. Failing test cases are *always* welcome and point releases are put
    out rapidly as bugs are found and fixed.

    We do our best to maintain full backwards compatibility for published
    APIs, since DBIx::Class is used in production in many organisations, and
    even backwards incompatible changes to non-published APIs will be fixed
    if they're reported and doing so doesn't cost the codebase anything.

    The test suite is quite substantial, and several developer releases are
    generally made to CPAN before the branch for the next release is merged
    back to trunk for a major release.

    The community can be found via:

      Mailing list: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class/

      SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/DBIx-Class/

      SVNWeb: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/svnweb/bast/browse/DBIx-Class/

      IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class

WHERE TO GO NEXT
    DBIx::Class::Manual::DocMap lists each task you might want help on, and
    the modules where you will find documentation.

AUTHOR
    mst: Matt S. Trout <mst@shadowcatsystems.co.uk>

    (I mostly consider myself "project founder" these days but the AUTHOR
    heading is traditional :)

CONTRIBUTORS
    abraxxa: Alexander Hartmaier <alex_hartmaier@hotmail.com>

    aherzog: Adam Herzog <adam@herzogdesigns.com>

    andyg: Andy Grundman <andy@hybridized.org>

    ank: Andres Kievsky

    ash: Ash Berlin <ash@cpan.org>

    bert: Norbert Csongradi <bert@cpan.org>

    blblack: Brandon L. Black <blblack@gmail.com>

    bluefeet: Aran Deltac <bluefeet@cpan.org>

    captainL: Luke Saunders <luke.saunders@gmail.com>

    castaway: Jess Robinson

    claco: Christopher H. Laco

    clkao: CL Kao

    da5id: David Jack Olrik <djo@cpan.org>

    dkubb: Dan Kubb <dan.kubb-cpan@onautopilot.com>

    dnm: Justin Wheeler <jwheeler@datademons.com>

    draven: Marcus Ramberg <mramberg@cpan.org>

    dwc: Daniel Westermann-Clark <danieltwc@cpan.org>

    dyfrgi: Michael Leuchtenburg <michael@slashhome.org>

    gphat: Cory G Watson <gphat@cpan.org>

    jesper: Jesper Krogh

    jguenther: Justin Guenther <jguenther@cpan.org>

    jnapiorkowski: John Napiorkowski <jjn1056@yahoo.com>

    jon: Jon Schutz <jjschutz@cpan.org>

    jshirley: J. Shirley <jshirley@gmail.com>

    konobi: Scott McWhirter

    LTJake: Brian Cassidy <bricas@cpan.org>

    mattlaw: Matt Lawrence

    ned: Neil de Carteret

    nigel: Nigel Metheringham <nigelm@cpan.org>

    ningu: David Kamholz <dkamholz@cpan.org>

    Numa: Dan Sully <daniel@cpan.org>

    paulm: Paul Makepeace

    penguin: K J Cheetham

    perigrin: Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>

    phaylon: Robert Sedlacek <phaylon@dunkelheit.at>

    quicksilver: Jules Bean

    sc_: Just Another Perl Hacker

    scotty: Scotty Allen <scotty@scottyallen.com>

    semifor: Marc Mims <marc@questright.com>

    sszabo: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@bigpanda.com>

    Todd Lipcon

    Tom Hukins

    typester: Daisuke Murase <typester@cpan.org>

    victori: Victor Igumnov <victori@cpan.org>

    wdh: Will Hawes

    willert: Sebastian Willert <willert@cpan.org>

    zamolxes: Bogdan Lucaciu <bogdan@wiz.ro>

LICENSE
    You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.