NAME

Meta::Db::Connections - Object to store a definition of mutiple connection to a database.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: Connections.pm
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.36

SYNOPSIS

package foo;
use Meta::Db::Connections qw();
my($connections)=Meta::Db::Connections->new();
my($num_connections)=$connections->get_size();

DESCRIPTION

This is an array of many connections to the database.

FUNCTIONS

new($)
get_default($)
set_default($$)
get_def_con($)
get_con_null($$)
new_handle($$)
new_file($$)
new_modu($$)
TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

new($)

This will create a new connections object for you.

get_default($)

This method will retrieve the name of the default connection for you.

set_default($$)

This method will set the name of the default connection for you.

get_def_con($)

This method will retrive the default connection object for you.

get_con_null($$)

This method will retrieve the default connection if you pass undef to it and otherwise it will try to retrieve the connections with the name specified.

new_handle($$)

This method receives: 0. A class name. 1. An IO::Handle to read from. This method returns: 0. A connection object constructed from the handle data. How it does it: The method uses the Meta::Xml::Parsers::Connections expat parser to do its thing. Remarks: This method is static.

new_file($$)

This method receives: 0. A class name. 1. A file from which to read. This method returns: 0. A Connections object constructed from the file. How it does it: The method uses the Meta::Xml::Parsers::Connections expat parser to do its thing. Remarks: This method is static.

new_modu($$)

This method receives: 0. A class name. 1. A development module (Meta::Development::Module). This method returns: 0. A Connections object constructed from the module. How it does it: This method uses the new_file method of the same package. Remarks: This method is static.

TEST($)

Test suite for this object.

SUPER CLASSES

Meta::Ds::Ohash(3)

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Name: Mark Veltzer
Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

0.00 MV bring databases on line
0.01 MV get the databases to work
0.02 MV convert all database descriptions to XML
0.03 MV make quality checks on perl code
0.04 MV more perl checks
0.05 MV check that all uses have qw
0.06 MV fix todo items look in pod documentation
0.07 MV more on tests/more checks to perl
0.08 MV put ALL tests back and light the tree
0.09 MV change new methods to have prototypes
0.10 MV perl code quality
0.11 MV more perl quality
0.12 MV more perl quality
0.13 MV perl documentation
0.14 MV more perl quality
0.15 MV perl qulity code
0.16 MV more perl code quality
0.17 MV revision change
0.18 MV languages.pl test online
0.19 MV advance the contacts project
0.20 MV xml data sets
0.21 MV perl packaging
0.22 MV XSLT, website etc
0.23 MV PDMT
0.24 MV some chess work
0.25 MV md5 project
0.26 MV database
0.27 MV perl module versions in files
0.28 MV movies and small fixes
0.29 MV thumbnail user interface
0.30 MV more thumbnail issues
0.31 MV website construction
0.32 MV web site automation
0.33 MV SEE ALSO section fix
0.34 MV download scripts
0.35 MV web site development
0.36 MV teachers project

SEE ALSO

Meta::Baseline::Aegis(3), Meta::Ds::Ohash(3), Meta::Xml::Parsers::Connections(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.