NAME

Mango::Provider - Base class for all Mango providers

SYNOPSIS

    package MyApp::Provider::Users;
    use strict;
    use warnings;
    
    BEGIN {
        use base qw/Mango::Provider/;
    };
    __PACKAGE__->result_class('MyClass');
    
    my $object = $provider->create(\%data);

DESCRIPTION

Mango::Provider is a base class for all providers used in Mango.

CONSTRUCTOR

new

Arguments: \%options

Creates a new provider object. If options are passed to new, those are sent to setup.

    my $provider = Mango::Provider->new({
        result_class => 'MyResultClass'
    });

The following options are available at the class level, to new/setup and take the same data as their method counterparts:

    result_class

METHODS

create

Arguments: \%data

Creates a new object of type result_class using the supplied data.

    my $object = $provider->create({
        id => 23,
        thingy => 'value'
    });

delete

Arguments: \%filter or $object

Deletes objects from the provider matching the supplied filter.

    $provider->delete({
        col => 'value'
    });

It can also delete an object passed into it:

    $provider->delete($object);

This is the same as:

    $provider->delete({ id => $object->id });

get_by_id

Arguments: $id

Retrieves an object from the provider matching the specified id.

    my $object = $provider->get_by_id(23);

Returns undef if no matching result can be found.

result_class

Arguments: $class

Gets/sets the name of the result class results should be returned as.

    $provider->result_class('MyClass');
    
    my $object = $provider->search->first;
    print ref $object; # MyClass

An exception will be thrown if the specified class can not be loaded.

search

Arguments: \%filter, \%options

Returns a list of objects in list context or a Mango::Iterator in scalar context matching the specified filter.

    my @objects = $provider->search({
        col => 'value'
    });
    
    my $iterator = $provider->search({
        col => 'value'
    });

The complete list of supported options are at the discretion each individual provider, but each provider should support the following options:

order_by

The name/direction of of the column(s) to sort the results.

    {order_by => 'col asc'}

page

The page number of the results to return.

    {page => 2}

rows

The number of results per page to return.

    {rows => 10}

When using rows/page, you can retrieve a Data::Page object from the iterator.

    my $results = $provider->search(undef, {
        rows => 10, page => 2
    });
    my $pager = $results->pager;
    print "Page 2 of ", $pager->last_page;
    while (my $result = $results->next) {
        print $result->id;
    };

setup

Arguments: \%options

Calls each key as a method with the supplied value. setup is automatically called by new.

    my $provider = Mango::Provider->new({
        result_class => 'MyResultClass'
    });

is the same as:

    my $provider = Mango::Provider->new;
    $provider->setup({
        result_class => 'MyResultClass'
    });

which is the same as:

    my $provider = Mango::Provider->new;
    $provider->result_class('MyResultClass');

update

Arguments: $object

Saves any changes made to the object back to the underlying store.

    my $object = $provider->create(\%data);
    $object->col('value');
    
    $provider->update($object);

get_component_class

Arguments: $name

Gets the current class for the specified component name.

    my $class = $self->get_component_class('result_class');

There is no good reason to use this. Use the specific class accessors instead.

set_component_class

Arguments: $name, $value

Sets the current class for the specified component name.

    $self->set_component_class('result_class', 'MyItemClass');

A Mango::Exception exception will be thrown if the specified class can not be loaded.

There is no good reason to use this. Use the specific class accessors instead.

SEE ALSO

Mango::Iterator

AUTHOR

    Christopher H. Laco
    CPAN ID: CLACO
    claco@chrislaco.com
    http://today.icantfocus.com/blog/

cpanm Mango

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Mango