NAME

Workflow::Persister::DBI::ExtraData - Fetch extra data with each workflow and put it into the context

SYNOPSIS

<persister name="MyPersister"
           class="Workflow::Persister::DBI::ExtraData"
           dsn="DBI:mysql:database=workflows"
           user="wf"
           password="mypass"
           extra_table="workflow_ticket"
           extra_data_field="ticket_id"
           extra_context_key="ticket_id"/>

DESCRIPTION

Overview

Simple subclass of Workflow::Persister::DBI to allow you to declare an extra table and data field(s) from which to fetch data whenever you fetch a workflow. There is a simple restriction: the table must have a field 'workflow_id' of the same datatype as the 'workflow_id' field in the 'workflow' table.

Examples

# Specify a single field 'ticket_id' from the table 'workflow_ticket'
# and store it in the context using the same key:

<persister
    ...
    extra_table="workflow_ticket"
    extra_data_field="ticket_id"
    ...

# How you would use this:
my $wf = FACTORY->fetch_workflow( 'Ticket', 55 );
print "Workflow is associated with ticket: ",
      $wf->context->param( 'ticket_id' );

# Specify a single field 'ticket_id' from the table 'workflow_ticket'
# and store it in the context using a different key

<persister
    ...
    extra_table="workflow_ticket"
    extra_data_field="ticket_id"
    extra_context_key="THE_TICKET_ID"
    ...

# How you would use this:
my $wf = FACTORY->fetch_workflow( 'Ticket', 55 );
print "Workflow is associated with ticket: ",
      $wf->context->param( 'THE_TICKET_ID' );

# Specify multiple fields ('ticket_id', 'last_viewer',
# 'last_view_date') to pull from the 'workflow_ticket' table:

<persister
    ...
    extra_table="workflow_ticket"
    extra_data_field="ticket_id,last_viewer,last_view_date"
    ...

# How you would use this:
my $wf = FACTORY->fetch_workflow( 'Ticket', 55 );
print "Workflow is associated with ticket: ",
      $wf->context->param( 'ticket_id' ), " ",
      "which was last viewed by ",
      $wf->context->param( 'last_viewer' ), " on ",
      $wf->context->param( 'last_view_date' );

Configuration

extra_table (required)

Table where the extra data are kept.

extra_data_field (required)

Can be a single field or a comma-separated list of fields, all in the same table. If a single field specified you have the option of declaring a different extra_context_key under which the value should be stored in the workflow context. Otherwise the values are stored by the field names in the workflow context.

extra_context_key (optional)

Key under which to save the data from extra_data_field in the workflow context.

Note: this is ignored when you specify multiple fields in extra_data_field; we just use the fieldnames for the context keys in that case. And if you specify a single data field and do not specify a context key we also use the data field name.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Chris Winters. All rights reserved.

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

AUTHORS

Chris Winters <chris@cwinters.com>