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NAME

       Dancer::Plugin::Database - easy database connections for Dancer applications

SYNOPSIS

           use Dancer;
           use Dancer::Plugin::Database;

           # Calling the database keyword will get you a connected database handle:
           get '/widget/view/:id' => sub {
               my $sth = database->prepare(
                   'select * from widgets where id = ?',
               );
               $sth->execute(params->{id});
               template 'display_widget', { widget => $sth->fetchrow_hashref };
           };

           # The handle is a Dancer::Plugin::Database::Core::Handle object, which subclasses
           # DBI's DBI::db handle and adds a few convenience features, for example:
           get '/insert/:name' => sub {
               database->quick_insert('people', { name => params->{name} });
           };

           get '/users/:id' => sub {
               template 'display_user', {
                   person => database->quick_select('users', { id => params->{id} }),
               };
           };

           dance;

       Database connection details are read from your Dancer application config - see below.

DESCRIPTION

       Provides an easy way to obtain a connected DBI database handle by simply calling the
       database keyword within your Dancer application

       Returns a Dancer::Plugin::Database::Core::Handle object, which is a subclass of DBI's
       "DBI::db" connection handle object, so it does everything you'd expect to do with DBI, but
       also adds a few convenience methods.  See the documentation for
       Dancer::Plugin::Database::Core::Handle for full details of those.

       Takes care of ensuring that the database handle is still connected and valid.  If the
       handle was last asked for more than "connection_check_threshold" seconds ago, it will
       check that the connection is still alive, using either the "$dbh->ping" method if the DBD
       driver supports it, or performing a simple no-op query against the database if not.  If
       the connection has gone away, a new connection will be obtained and returned.  This avoids
       any problems for a long-running script where the connection to the database might go away.

       Care is taken that handles are not shared across processes/threads, so this should be
       thread-safe with no issues with transactions etc.  (Thanks to Matt S Trout for pointing
       out the previous lack of thread safety.  Inspiration was drawn from DBIx::Connector.)

CONFIGURATION

       Connection details will be taken from your Dancer application config file, and should be
       specified as, for example:

           plugins:
               Database:
                   driver: 'mysql'
                   database: 'test'
                   host: 'localhost'
                   port: 3306
                   username: 'myusername'
                   password: 'mypassword'
                   connection_check_threshold: 10
                   dbi_params:
                       RaiseError: 1
                       AutoCommit: 1
                   on_connect_do: ["SET NAMES 'utf8'", "SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'" ]
                   log_queries: 1
                   handle_class: 'My::Super::Sexy::Database::Handle'

       The "connection_check_threshold" setting is optional, if not provided, it will default to
       30 seconds.  If the database keyword was last called more than this number of seconds ago,
       a quick check will be performed to ensure that we still have a connection to the database,
       and will reconnect if not.  This handles cases where the database handle hasn't been used
       for a while and the underlying connection has gone away.

       The "dbi_params" setting is also optional, and if specified, should be settings which can
       be passed to "DBI->connect" as its fourth argument; see the DBI documentation for these.

       The optional "on_connect_do" setting is an array of queries which should be performed when
       a connection is established; if given, each query will be performed using "$dbh->do".  (If
       using MySQL, you might want to use this to set "SQL_MODE" to a suitable value to disable
       MySQL's built-in free data loss 'features', for example:

         on_connect_do: "SET SQL_MODE='TRADITIONAL'"

       (If you're not familiar with what I mean, I'm talking about the insane default behaviour
       of "hmm, this bit of data won't fit the column you're trying to put it in.. hmm, I know,
       I'll just munge it to fit, and throw a warning afterwards - it's not like you're relying
       on me to, y'know, store what you ask me to store".  See
       <http://effectivemysql.com/presentation/mysql-idiosyncrasies-that-bite/> for just one
       illustration.  In hindsight, I wish I'd made a sensible "sql_mode" a default setting, but
       I don't want to change that now.)

       The optional "log_queries" setting enables logging of queries generated by the helper
       functions "quick_insert" et al in Dancer::Plugin::Database::Core::Handle.  If you enable
       it, generated queries will be logged at 'debug' level.  Be aware that they will contain
       the data you're passing to/from the database, so be careful not to enable this option in
       production, where you could inadvertently log sensitive information.

       If you prefer, you can also supply a pre-crafted DSN using the "dsn" setting; in that
       case, it will be used as-is, and the driver/database/host settings will be ignored.  This
       may be useful if you're using some DBI driver which requires a peculiar DSN.

       The optional "handle_class" defines your own class into which database handles should be
       blessed.  This should be a subclass of Dancer::Plugin::Database::Core::Handle (or DBI::db
       directly, if you just want to skip the extra features).

       You will require slightly different options depending on the database engine you're
       talking to.  For instance, for SQLite, you won't need to supply "hostname", "port" etc,
       but will need to supply "database" as the name of the SQLite database file:

           plugins:
               Database:
                   driver: SQLite
                   database: 'foo.sqlite'

       For Oracle, you may want to pass "sid" (system ID) to identify a particular database,
       e.g.:

           plugins:
               Database:
                   driver: Oracle
                   host: localhost
                   sid: ABC12

       If you have any further connection parameters that need to be appended to the dsn, you can
       put them in as a hash called dsn_extra. For example, if you're running mysql on a non-
       standard socket, you could have

          plugins:
              Database:
                  driver: mysql
                  host: localhost
                  dsn_extra:
                      mysql_socket: /tmp/mysql_staging.sock

   DEFINING MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS
       If you need to connect to multiple databases, this is easy - just list them in your config
       under "connections" as shown below:

           plugins:
               Database:
                   connections:
                       foo:
                           driver: "SQLite"
                           database: "foo.sqlite"
                       bar:
                           driver: "mysql"
                           host: "localhost"
                           ....

       Then, you can call the "database" keyword with the name of the database connection you
       want, for example:

           my $foo_dbh = database('foo');
           my $bar_dbh = database('bar');

RUNTIME CONFIGURATION

       You can pass a hashref to the "database()" keyword to provide configuration details to
       override any in the config file at runtime if desired, for instance:

           my $dbh = database({ driver => 'SQLite', database => $filename });

       (Thanks to Alan Haggai for this feature.)

AUTOMATIC UTF-8 SUPPORT

       As of version 1.20, if your application is configured to use UTF-8 (you've defined the
       "charset" setting in your app config as "UTF-8") then support for UTF-8 for the database
       connection will be enabled, if we know how to do so for the database driver in use.

       If you do not want this behaviour, set "auto_utf8" to a false value when providing the
       connection details.

GETTING A DATABASE HANDLE

       Calling "database" will return a connected database handle; the first time it is called,
       the plugin will establish a connection to the database, and return a reference to the DBI
       object.  On subsequent calls, the same DBI connection object will be returned, unless it
       has been found to be no longer usable (the connection has gone away), in which case a
       fresh connection will be obtained.

       If you have declared named connections as described above in 'DEFINING MULTIPLE
       CONNECTIONS', then calling the database() keyword with the name of the connection as
       specified in the config file will get you a database handle connected with those details.

       You can also pass a hashref of settings if you wish to provide settings at runtime.

CONVENIENCE FEATURES

       The handle returned by the "database" keyword is a Dancer::Plugin::Database::Core::Handle
       object, which subclasses the "DBI::db" DBI connection handle.  This means you can use it
       just like you'd normally use a DBI handle, but extra convenience methods are provided.

       There's extensive documentation on these features in
       Dancer::Plugin::Database::Core::Handle, including using the "order_by", "limit", "columns"
       options to sort / limit results and include only specific columns.

HOOKS

       This plugin uses Dancer's hooks support to allow you to register code that should execute
       at given times - for example:

           hook 'database_connected' => sub {
               my $dbh = shift;
               # do something with the new DB handle here
           };

       Currrently defined hook positions are:

       "database_connected"
           Called when a new database connection has been established, after performing any
           "on_connect_do" statements, but before the handle is returned.  Receives the new
           database handle as a parameter, so that you can do what you need with it.

       "database_connection_lost"
           Called when the plugin detects that the database connection has gone away.  Receives
           the no-longer usable handle as a parameter, in case you need to extract some
           information from it (such as which server it was connected to).

       "database_connection_failed"
           Called when an attempt to connect to the database fails.  Receives a hashref of
           connection settings as a parameter, containing the settings the plugin was using to
           connect (as obtained from the config file).

       "database_error"
           Called when a database error is raised by "DBI".  Receives two parameters: the error
           message being returned by DBI, and the database handle in question.

       If you need other hook positions which would be useful to you, please feel free to suggest
       them!

AUTHOR

       David Precious, "<davidp@preshweb.co.uk>"

CONTRIBUTING

       This module is developed on Github at:

       <http://github.com/bigpresh/Dancer-Plugin-Database>

       Feel free to fork the repo and submit pull requests!  Also, it makes sense to watch the
       repo <https://github.com/bigpresh/Dancer-Plugin-Database/toggle_watch> on GitHub for
       updates.

       Feedback and bug reports are always appreciated.  Even a quick mail to let me know the
       module is useful to you would be very nice - it's nice to know if code is being actively
       used.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       Igor Bujna

       Franck Cuny

       Alan Haggai

       Christian Sánchez

       Michael Stiller

       Martin J Evans

       Carlos Sosa

       Matt S Trout

       Matthew Vickers

       Christian Walde

       Alberto Simões

       James Aitken (LoonyPandora)

       Mark Allen (mrallen1)

       Sergiy Borodych (bor)

       Mario Domgoergen (mdom)

       Andrey Inishev (inish777)

       Nick S. Knutov (knutov)

       Nicolas Franck (nicolasfranck)

       mscolly

BUGS

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-dancer-plugin-database at rt.cpan.org",
       or through the web interface at
       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Dancer-Plugin-Database>.  I will be
       notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make
       changes.

SUPPORT

       You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

           perldoc Dancer::Plugin::Database

       You can also look for information at:

       •   RT: CPAN's request tracker

           <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Dancer-Plugin-Database>

       •   AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

           <http://annocpan.org/dist/Dancer-Plugin-Database>

       •   CPAN Ratings

           <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Dancer-Plugin-Database>

       •   Search CPAN

           <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dancer-Plugin-Database/>

       You can find the author on IRC in the channel "#dancer" on <irc.perl.org>.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2010-2016 David Precious.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or
       the Artistic License.

       See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

SEE ALSO

       Dancer

       DBI

       Dancer::Plugin::SimpleCRUD