Type(3pm)

💖 Type(3pm) 💖

ok so bestie, this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation (that's the manual name, mwah, we love her) and she is called Type, section 3pm. let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

Class::DBI::Plugin::Type — bestie, it figures out the type info for your columns. that's the whole job. iconic.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ok so picture this, you got a package and you're out here living your Class::DBI life:

package Music::Artist;
use base 'Class::DBI';
use Class::DBI::Plugin::Type;
Music::Artist->table('artist');
Music::Artist->columns(All => qw/artistid name/);

print Music::Artist->column_type("artistid"); # integer

and then column_type("artistid") just hands you integer?? no cap, that's the vibe. ✨

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so this module lets your Class::DBI-based classes go ask their own columns what data type they are, and it does it in a database-independent way. like, you don't have to care which database is underneath, it just knows. it's giving main character energy fr fr 🎀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Class::DBI::AsForm — go look at her too, she's right there in the family 🫶

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Simon Cozens, <simon@cpan.org> — wrote it, we stan 💜

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💖 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 💖

Copyright 2004 by Simon Cozens

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

This module was generously sponsored by the Perl Foundation. 🎉

like, please keep that copyright line intact bestie, it's not a decoration, that's the actual license ✨

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and a lil sign-off to close us out: this was rendered from perl v5.38.2, dated 2024-03-05, and that cute "Type(3pm)" in the corner? yeah, that's us. bye babes 🦋💖🌸