NAME

DBICx::TestDatabase::Subclass - a DBICx::TestDatabase you can add your own methods to

SYNOPSIS

Your test database subclass:

package MyApp::TestDatabase
use base qw(DBICx::TestDatabase::Subclass MyApp::Schema);

sub foo { 
   my $self = shift;
   return $self->resultset('Foo')->create({ foo => 'bar' });
}

Later:

use MyApp::TestDatabase;
my $schema = MyApp::TestDatabase->connect;
my $foo_row = $schema->foo; # MyApp::TestDatabase::foo
my $bars = $schema->resultset('Bar'); # MyApp::Schema::resultset

DESCRIPTION

Sometimes DBICx::TestDatabase doesn't give you enough control over the object returned. This module lets you create a custom test database class.

METHODS

connect

This method creates the temporary database and returns the connection. If your subclass needs to change the way connect works, do something like this:

sub connect {
    my ($class) = @_;

    say 'This happens before we create the test database.';
    my $schema = $class->next::method;
    say '$schema is the temporary test database';
   
    return $schema;
}

SEE ALSO

If you want a simple test database based on a DBIC schema, just use DBICx::TestDatabase.

AUTHOR

Jonathan Rockway <jrockway@cpan.org>

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2007 Jonathan Rockway.

This program is free software. You may use, modify, and redistribute it under the same terms as Perl itself.