NAME

Meta::Db::Console::Console - readline console for DBI/DBD databases.

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: Console.pm
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.17

SYNOPSIS

package foo;
use Meta::Db::Console::Console qw();
my($object)=Meta::Db::Console::Console->new();
my($result)=$object->method();

DESCRIPTION

This object supplies you with a console for DBI/DBD database. When you run the console you get to execute SQL queries and see the results on your terminal.

FUNCTIONS

BEGIN()
pre($)
process($$)
post($)
TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

BEGIN()

Bootstrap method to setup accessor for the following attributes: 0. connections - connections xml file. 1. connection_name - connection name. 2. def - database def file. 3. dbif - the actual database interface that will be used.

pre($)

This method overrides the base class pre method and connects to the database.

process($$)

This method overrides the base class process method and actually does the work of submitting the query and printing the results.

post($)

This method overrides the base class post method and disconnects from the database.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

Meta::Shell::Shell(3)

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

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

HISTORY

0.00 MV db stuff
0.01 MV good xml support
0.02 MV xml data sets
0.03 MV perl packaging
0.04 MV XSLT, website etc
0.05 MV PDMT
0.06 MV more movies
0.07 MV md5 project
0.08 MV database
0.09 MV perl module versions in files
0.10 MV movies and small fixes
0.11 MV thumbnail user interface
0.12 MV more thumbnail issues
0.13 MV website construction
0.14 MV web site automation
0.15 MV SEE ALSO section fix
0.16 MV download scripts
0.17 MV teachers project

SEE ALSO

Meta::Db::Connections(3), Meta::Db::Dbi(3), Meta::Db::Def(3), Meta::Shell::Shell(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), strict(3)

TODO

-add options to set the prompt according to preference.

-use Data::ShowTable to show the results.