NAME

       DBIx::Class::Helper::ResultSet::OneRow - The first you always wanted

SYNOPSIS

        # note that this is normally a component for a ResultSet
        package MySchema::ResultSet::Person;

        use strict;
        use warnings;

        use parent 'DBIx::Class::ResultSet';

        __PACKAGE__->load_components('Helper::ResultSet::OneRow');

        sub person_named {
           $_[0]->search({ name => $_[1] })->one_row
        }

DESCRIPTION

       This component codifies an alternate version of "first" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet.  In practical use,
       "first" allows a user to do something like the following:

        my $rs = $schema->resultset('Foo')->search({ name => 'bar' });
        my $first = $rs->first;
        my @rest;
        while (my $row = $rs->next) {
           push @rest, $row
        }

       Problematically, if you call "first" without the while loop afterwards and you got back more than one
       row, you are leaving a cursor open.  Depending on your database this could increase memory usage or cause
       errors with later queries.

       Fundamentally the difference is that when you use "one_row" you are guaranteed to exhaust the underlying
       cursor.

       Generally speaking, unless you are doing something unusual, "one_row" is a good default.

METHODS

   one_row
       Limits the ResultSet to a single row, and then returns the matching result object. In case no rows match,
       "undef" is returned as normal.

THANKS

       Thanks to Aran Clary Deltac (BLUEFEET) for initially writing this module, and thanks to ZipRecruiter
       <https://www.ziprecruiter.com> for sponsoring that initial developmentl

AUTHOR

       Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt <frioux+cpan@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2020 by Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5
       programming language system itself.