NAME

Meta::Db::Constraint - a single multi-field constraint object.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Constraint.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.05

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Db::Constraint qw();
        my($object)=Meta::Db::Constraint->new();
        my($result)=$object->method();

DESCRIPTION

This class represents a single, multi-field, constraint on an RDBMS. This could be a UNIQUE or FULLTEXT constraint currently.

FUNCTIONS

        BEGIN()
        getsql_create($$$)
        getsql_comma($$$)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

BEGIN()

This method creates accesor methods for the following attributes: name - name of this constraint. description - description of this constraint.

getsql_create($$$)

This method will create a set of SQL statements to create this type of constraint within the RDMBS. Note that not all RDBMS systems support all constraint types.

getsql_comma($$)

This method will return an SQL snipplet which has all the fields involved with commas in between.

TEST($)

Test suite for this object.

SUPER CLASSES

Meta::Ds::Ohash(3), Meta::Ds::Connected(3)

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV dbman package creation
        0.01 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.02 MV website construction
        0.03 MV web site automation
        0.04 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.05 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Meta::Ds::Connected(3), Meta::Ds::Ohash(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.