Fellow DBIers,
So I just had a need to use DBI::Shell with a subclass of the DBI. It
doesn't support subclasses directly (it'd be nice to be able to
specify one on the command-line or something), but I was able to hack
it into using one anyway by doing this:
BEGIN {
sub DBI::Shell::Base::DBI () { 'My::DBI' };
}
use DBI::Shell;
Yes, is extremely sneaky. DBI::Shell::Base uses the string constant
"DBI", as in
DBI->connect(...)
So by shoving a constant into DBI::Shell::Base before loading
DBI::Shell, I convince it to use my subclass, instead.
Enjoy,
David
