On 8/23/06, James Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It can do either one, depending on how you use it. The "normal" way of using it
scans the database at load time into memory and doesn't create any modules/files,
but you can also invoke it a different way and it will generate module files on disk,
which look about like a manually-written schema and can be edited from there.
The interface for using the schema export stuff is very ugly right now, but it is
documented in the Schema::Loader manual. Hopefully in the not-to-distant future,
it will be wrapped up in a simpler commandline interface, probably by plugging
some features in the existing "dbicadmin" commandline shell.
-- Brandon
I'm new to DBIx and have managed to get DBIx::Class working using mysql by
setting up a couple of test schema modules.
I don't really understand what Loader does. Does it create a whole load of
module files with the schema info that I would otherwise have to write out
manually and then read them in? If so, presumably, this only needs to
happen once so do I just write a sepeare script to run once?
Or does it simply read my MySQL database tables columns and wotnot into
memory every time and dispenses with the schema info modules altogether
(this is what I was hoping it would do).
It can do either one, depending on how you use it. The "normal" way of using it
scans the database at load time into memory and doesn't create any modules/files,
but you can also invoke it a different way and it will generate module files on disk,
which look about like a manually-written schema and can be edited from there.
The interface for using the schema export stuff is very ugly right now, but it is
documented in the Schema::Loader manual. Hopefully in the not-to-distant future,
it will be wrapped up in a simpler commandline interface, probably by plugging
some features in the existing "dbicadmin" commandline shell.
-- Brandon
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