NAME

DBIish - a simple database interface for Rakudo Perl 6

SYNOPSIS

use v6;
use DBIish;

my $dbh = DBIish.connect("SQLite", :database<example-db.sqlite3>);

my $sth = $dbh.do(q:to/STATEMENT/);
    DROP TABLE IF EXISTS nom
    STATEMENT

$sth = $dbh.do(q:to/STATEMENT/);
    CREATE TABLE nom (
        name        varchar(4),
        description varchar(30),
        quantity    int,
        price       numeric(5,2)
    )
    STATEMENT

$sth = $dbh.do(q:to/STATEMENT/);
    INSERT INTO nom (name, description, quantity, price)
    VALUES ( 'BUBH', 'Hot beef burrito', 1, 4.95 )
    STATEMENT

$sth = $dbh.prepare(q:to/STATEMENT/);
    INSERT INTO nom (name, description, quantity, price)
    VALUES ( ?, ?, ?, ? )
    STATEMENT

$sth.execute('TAFM', 'Mild fish taco', 1, 4.85);
$sth.execute('BEOM', 'Medium size orange juice', 2, 1.20);

$sth = $dbh.prepare(q:to/STATEMENT/);
    SELECT name, description, quantity, price, quantity*price AS amount
    FROM nom
    STATEMENT

$sth.execute();

my @rows = $sth.allrows();
say @rows.elems; # 3

$sth.finish;

$dbh.disconnect;

DESCRIPTION

The DBIish project provides a simple database interface for Perl 6.

It's not a port of the Perl 5 DBI and does not intend to become one. It is, however, a simple and useful database interface for Perl 6 that works now. It looks like a DBI, and it talks like a DBI (although it only offers a subset of the functionality).

It is based on Martin Berends' MiniDBI project, but unlike MiniDBI, DBDish aims to provide an interface that takes advantage of Perl 6 idioms

Fetching data

DBIish provides nearly all the perl5 DBI fetch* method to fetch values from the StatementHandle object. However it's recommanded to use the row and allrows methods. They provide you typed values

row

row take the hash adverb if you want to have the values in a Hash form instead of a plain Array

Example:

my @values = $sth.row();
my %values = $sth.row(:hash);

allrows

allrows lazily returns all the row as a list of arrays. If you want to fetch the values in a hash form, use one of the two adverbs array-of-hash and hash-of-array

Example:

my @datas = $sth.allrows(); # [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]
my @datas = $sth.allrows(:array-of-hash); # [ ( a => 1, b => 2), ( a => 3, b => 4) ]
my %datas = $sth.allrows(:hash-of-array); # a => [1, 3], b => [2, 4]

INSTALLATION

$ panda install DBIish

DBDish CLASSES

Some DBDish drivers install together with DBIish.pm6 and are maintained as a single project.

Search the Perl 6 ecosystem for additional DBDish drivers.

Currently the following backends are included:

Pg (Postgresql)

Supports basic CRUD operations and prepared statements with placeholders

my $dbh = DBIish.connect('Pg', :host<db01.yourdomain.com>, :port(5432),
        :database<blerg>, :user<myuser>, :$password);

Pg array are supported when fetching array fields with row/allrows. You will get the properly typed array according to the field type.

But passing array to execute/do is not implemented yet. You can use the pg-array-str method on your Pg StatementHandle to convert an Array to a string Pg can understand.

#prepare an insertion of an array field;
$sth.execute($sth.pg-array-str(@data));

SQLite

Supports basic CRUD operations and prepared statements with placeholders

my $dbh = DBIish.connect('SQLite', :database<thefile.sqlite3>);

mysql

Supports basic CRUD operations. Emulates prepared statements by escaping and interpolating strings.

my $dbh = DBIish.connect('mysql', :host<db02.yourdomain.com>, :port(3306),
        :database<blerg>, :user<myuser>, :$password);
# Or via socket:
my $dbh = DBIish.connect('mysql', :socket<mysql.sock>,
        :database<blerg>, :user<myuser>, :$password);

TESTING

The DBIish::CommonTesting module, now with over 100 tests, provides a common unit testing that allows a driver developer to test its driver capabilities and the minimum expected compatibility.

ROADMAP

Add some more drivers. Improve robustness of all drivers. Improve the test suite. Attract more contributors.

Integrate with the DBDI project (http://github.com/timbunce/DBDI) once it has sufficient functionality.

COPYRIGHT

Written by Moritz Lenz, based on the MiniDBI code by Martin Berends.

See the CREDITS file for a list of all contributors.

LICENSE

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
  this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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