NAME

Meta::Db::Fields - Object to store a hash of Enum objects for a database.

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: Fields.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.34

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Db::Fields qw();
        my($enums)=Meta::Db::Fields->new();
        my($user)=$users->get("mark");

DESCRIPTION

This is an object to store a list of Field objects for a database.

FUNCTIONS

        printd($$)
        printx($$)
        getsql_create($$$)
        getsql_drop($$$)
        getsql_add_multiple($$$)
        getsql_names($$)
        getsql_add($$)
        getsql_select($$)
        getsql_insert($$)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

printd($$)

This will print the current object in SGML format.

printx($$)

This will print the current object in XML format.

getsql_create($$$)

This method will add SQL statements to a received statement list which are needed to create these fields in the database.

getsql_drop($$$)

This method will add SQL statements to a received statement list which are needed to drop these fields in the database.

getsql_add_multiple($$$)

This method will add each field on its own.

getsql_names($$)

This method will return an SQL description which is good for things like CREATE TABLE of the entire set of fields.

getsql_select($$)

This method will retreive an SQL statement snipplet which is suitable for inclusion in a "SELECT x0,x1,x2,...,xn from table;" statements.

getsql_insert($$)

This method will retreive an SQL statement snipplet which is suitable for inclusion in a "VALUES(?,?,?)" statement.

TEST($)

Test suite for this object.

SUPER CLASSES

Meta::Ds::Ochash(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 ok. This is for real
        0.01 MV make quality checks on perl code
        0.02 MV more perl checks
        0.03 MV check that all uses have qw
        0.04 MV fix todo items look in pod documentation
        0.05 MV more on tests/more checks to perl
        0.06 MV fix all tests change
        0.07 MV change new methods to have prototypes
        0.08 MV perl code quality
        0.09 MV more perl quality
        0.10 MV more perl quality
        0.11 MV perl documentation
        0.12 MV get graph stuff going
        0.13 MV more perl quality
        0.14 MV perl qulity code
        0.15 MV more perl code quality
        0.16 MV revision change
        0.17 MV languages.pl test online
        0.18 MV db stuff
        0.19 MV xml data sets
        0.20 MV more data sets
        0.21 MV perl packaging
        0.22 MV PDMT
        0.23 MV some chess work
        0.24 MV md5 project
        0.25 MV database
        0.26 MV perl module versions in files
        0.27 MV movies and small fixes
        0.28 MV movie stuff
        0.29 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.30 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.31 MV website construction
        0.32 MV web site automation
        0.33 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.34 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

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

TODO

-get insert is not implemented in the best way - improve it.