Provided by: libdancer-plugin-database-perl_2.12-1_all 
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 (quick_select, quick_update, quick_insert, quick_delete, quick_count)
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, as
documented in the POD for Dancer::Plugin::Database::Core::Handle.
Examples:
# Quickly fetch the (first) row whose ID is 42 as a hashref:
my $row = database->quick_select($table_name, { id => 42 });
# Fetch all badgers as an array of hashrefs:
my @badgers = database->quick_select('animals', { genus => 'Mellivora' });
# Update the row where the 'id' column is '42', setting the 'foo' column to
# 'Bar':
database->quick_update($table_name, { id => 42 }, { foo => 'Bar' });
# Insert a new row, using a named connection (see above)
database('connectionname')->quick_insert($table_name, { foo => 'Bar' });
# Delete the row with id 42:
database->quick_delete($table_name, { id => 42 });
# Fetch all rows from a table (since version 1.30):
database->quick_select($table_name, {});
# Retrieve a count of rows matching the criteria:
database->quick_count($table_name, {});
There's more 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 2010-2015 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