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Gestinanna-POF-0.07
/ Gestinanna::POF::MLDBM

NAME

Gestinanna::POF::MLDBM - MLDBM interface for persistant objects

SYNOPSIS

package My::DataObject::Base;

use base qw(Gestinanna::POF::MLDBM);

package My::DataObject;

@ISA = q(My::DataObject::Base);

# any column access method overrides here
sub key {
    my $self = shift;

    if( @_ ) { # setting
        # do checks here, returning or throwing an exception if 
        # there is a problem
    }

    $self -> SUPER::key(@_);
}

DESCRIPTION

This module supports MLDBM data stores through either the MLDBM or the MLDBM::Sync modules.

Actually, it can work with any data source that has a tied hash interface (implements the FETCH, STORE, EXISTS, DELETE, FIRSTKEY, NEXTKEY methods).

DATA STORE

The data store object is mldbm and is a required parameter for object creation. Usually, this is set in the factory object which then passes it to this class when a new object is being created or fetched from the data store.

AUTHOR

James Smith, <jsmith@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Texas A&M University. All Rights Reserved.

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