NAME

Yancy::Guides::Model - Building modules for your application's business logic

VERSION

version 1.072

DESCRIPTION

This guide describes how to extend Yancy::Model to add custom business logic.

Model Classes

There are three types of classes in Yancy::Model:

Model

The model class represents the entire database and contains schemas.

Schema

Schema classes represent individual tables, views, or collections and contain items.

Item

Item classes represent individual records from the database.

Create a Model

To create your model, extend the Yancy::Model class.

    package MyApp::Model;
    use Mojo::Base 'Yancy::Model', -signatures;

Make sure to add your namespace to the "namespaces" in Yancy::Model array:

    unshift @{ $model->namespaces }, 'MyApp';

Your model class should include methods for the most common data lookups:

    sub get_user( $self, $id ) {
        return $self->schema( 'user' )->get( $id );
    }

Your model class should also store configuration needed by the other classes:

    # Invitation e-mails come from this address
    has email_from => 'no-reply@example.com';

Create a Schema

To create a schema class, extend Yancy::Model::Schema. The name of the schema class should be the camel-cased version of the schema's name.

    package MyApp::Schema::User;
    use Mojo::Base 'Yancy::Model::Schema', -signatures;

The schema class should contain methods that work on the collection: Creating new items, searching for items.

    # Invite a new user
    sub invite( $self, $email ) {
        my $id = $self->create({ email => $email });
        $self->get( $id )->send_invite_mail;
        return $id;
    }

Create an Item

To create an item class, extend Yancy::Model::Item. The name of the item class should be the camel-cased version of the schema's name.

    package MyApp::Item::User;
    use Mojo::Base 'Yancy::Model::Item', -signatures;

The item class should contain methods that work on individual records.

    # Send the invite mail to this user
    sub send_invite_mail( $self ) {
        my $to = $self->data->{email};
        my $from = $self->model->email_from;
        # TODO: Send e-mail
    }

SEE ALSO

Yancy::Guides, Yancy::Model

AUTHOR

Doug Bell <preaction@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2021 by Doug Bell.

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

cpanm Yancy

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Yancy