DBIx::...I::GUID(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

DBIx::Class::UUIDColumns::UUIDMaker::Win32API::GUID — bestie, this is the lil UUID-maker that goes and gets your uuids from Win32API::GUID. It's a subclass of DBIx::Class::UUIDColumns::UUIDMaker, and it's the one you want when you're on Windows and you want your DBIx::Class rows to have real, honest-to-god GUIDs. It lives in the DBIx::...I::GUID man page (the docs had to trim the name for the header, the full thing is the one up top, iykyk). 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Okay so here's the whole vibe, like three lines and you're done:

package Artist;
__PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/UUIDColumns Core DB/);
__PACKAGE__->uuid_columns( 'artist_id' );
__PACKAGE__->uuid_class('::Win32API::GUID');

That's it. That's the whole setup. Load UUIDColumns (plus Core and DB, obviously, she needs them), tell her which column is the uuid one, and tell her which uuid class to use. Slay. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This DBIx::Class::UUIDColumns::UUIDMaker subclass uses Win32API::GUID to generate uuid strings. And the format it spits out? Literally this:

098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb

The classic hyphenated hex situation. Gorgeous. No notes. 👑

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🎀 METHODS 🎀

💫 as_string

Returns the new uuid as a string. That's the whole job. It gives you the string, you put it in your column, everybody's happy. 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Win32API::GUID — the actual Windows-side machinery doing the heavy lifting here, go say hi.

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Chris Laco <claco@chrislaco.com> — the icon who wrote this. 👑

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🌈 LICENSE 🌈

You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself. So, same deal as Perl, no cap.

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okay and real quick, the receipts at the bottom of the original page: this is perl v5.32.0, dated 2021-01-06, filed under DBIx::...I::GUID(3pm) in the User Contributed Perl Documentation. That's the whole thing bestie, go make some GUIDs 💖✨