Rose::...Generic(3pm)

🦋 Rose::DB::Generic 🦋

okay bestie, so this is the generic driver class for Rose::DB — the one that shows up when nobody else claimed the aux cord 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

Rose::DB::Generic — the generic driver class for Rose::DB. like, the understudy that goes on when the main character driver never showed up 💀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use Rose::DB;

Rose::DB->register_db(
  dsn      => 'dbi:SomeDB:...', # unknown driver
  username => 'devuser',
  password => 'mysecret',
);

Rose::DB->default_domain('development');
Rose::DB->default_type('main');
...

$db = Rose::DB->new; # $db is really a Rose::DB::Generic object
...

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea 🍓: this is the subclass that Rose::DB blesses an object into — by default — when the driver you specified in the registry entry has no class name registered in the driver class map. it's giving "we don't know her, but she's on the roster anyway" ✨

and bestie, if you're trying to maximize the chance that this class actually works with an unsupported database? do these two things, fr fr 👇

• use a driver name that exactly matches the DBI "DBD::..." driver name. even though <cyan>Rose::DB</cyan> drivers are case-insensitive, using the exact spelling and letter case is what lets this generic Rose::DB driver connect successfully. no cap. 🔥
• specify the DSN explicitly instead of handing over the pieces separately (host, database, port, etc.) and then relying on this class to assemble them into a DBI DSN. this class will assemble a DSN for you — but it might not be in the format that an unsupported driver actually expects 🙈

lowkey the whole point: this class is doing its best, bestie. help it out by being specific 🫶

this class inherits from Rose::DB 💜 — go read the Rose::DB documentation for the info on all the inherited methods, that's where the good stuff lives 🎀

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

John C. Siracusa (siracusa@gmail.com) — the icon, the legend ⭐

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🌈 LICENSE 🌈

Copyright (c) 2010 by John C. Siracusa. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. periodt 💅

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and that's the whole vibe check 🧚 per perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-07-31, and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section as Rose::...Generic(3pm) — slay, bye bestie 💖🌸