NAME DBIx::Class::Loader - Dynamic definition of DBIx::Class sub classes. SYNOPSIS use DBIx::Class::Loader; my $loader = DBIx::Class::Loader->new( dsn => "dbi:mysql:dbname", user => "root", password => "", namespace => "Data", additional_classes => qw/DBIx::Class::Foo/, additional_base_classes => qw/My::Stuff/, left_base_classes => qw/DBIx::Class::Bar/, constraint => '^foo.*', relationships => 1, options => { AutoCommit => 1 }, inflect => { child => 'children' } ); my $class = $loader->find_class('film'); # $class => Data::Film my $obj = $class->retrieve(1); use with mod_perl in your startup.pl # load all tables use DBIx::Class::Loader; my $loader = DBIx::Class::Loader->new( dsn => "dbi:mysql:dbname", user => "root", password => "", namespace => "Data", ); in your web application. use strict; # you can use Data::Film directly my $film = Data::Film->retrieve($id); DESCRIPTION DBIx::Class::Loader automate the definition of DBIx::Class sub-classes. scan table schemas and setup columns, primary key. class names are defined by table names and namespace option. +-----------+-----------+-----------+ | table | namespace | class | +-----------+-----------+-----------+ | foo | Data | Data::Foo | | foo_bar | | FooBar | +-----------+-----------+-----------+ DBIx::Class::Loader supports MySQL, Postgres and SQLite. See DBIx::Class::Loader::Generic for more, and DBIx::Class::Loader::Writing for notes on writing your own db-specific subclass for an unsupported db. Class::DBI::Loader and Class::DBI are now obsolete, use DBIx::Class and this module instead. ;) AUTHOR Sebastian Riedel, "sri@oook.de" Based upon the work of IKEBE Tomohiro THANK YOU Adam Anderson, Andy Grundman, Autrijus Tang, Dan Kubb, David Naughton, Randal Schwartz, Simon Flack and all the others who've helped. LICENSE This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO DBIx::Class