Alzabo::Runtime::Column - Column objects


NAME

Alzabo::Runtime::Column - Column objects


SYNOPSIS

  use Alzabo::Runtime::Column;


DESCRIPTION

This object represents a column. It holds data specific to a column.


INHERITS FROM

Alzabo::Column

Note: all relevant documentation from the superclass has been merged into this document.


METHODS

table

Returns

The table object in which this column is located.

name

Returns

The column's name as a string.

nullable

Returns

A boolean value indicating whether or not NULLs are allowed in this column.

attributes

A column's attributes are strings describing the column (for example, valid attributes in MySQL are 'UNSIGNED' or 'ZEROFILL'.

Returns

A list of strings.

has_attribute

Parameters:

This method can be used to test whether or not a column has a particular attribute. By default, the check is case-insensitive.

Returns

A boolean value indicating whether or not the column has this particular attribute.

type

Returns

The column's type as a string.

sequenced

The meaning of a sequenced column varies from one RDBMS to another. In those with sequences, it means that a sequence is created and that values for this column will be drawn from it for inserts into this table. In databases without sequences, the nearest analog for a sequence is used (in MySQL the column is given the AUTO_INCREMENT attribute, in Sybase the identity attribute).

In general, this only has meaning for the primary key column of a table with a single column primary key. Setting the column as sequenced means its value never has to be provided to when calling Alzabo::Runtime::Table->insert.

Returns

A boolean value indicating whether or not this column is sequenced.

default

Returns

The default value of the column as a string, or undef if there is no default.

length

Returns

The length attribute of the column, or undef if there is none.

precision

Returns

The precision attribute of the column, or undef if there is none.

is_primary_key

Returns

A boolean value indicating whether or not this column is part of its table's primary key.

is_numeric

Returns

A boolean value indicating whether the column is a numeric type column.

is_character

Returns

A boolean value indicating whether the column is a character type column.

is_blob

Returns

A boolean value indicating whether the column is a blob column.

definition

The definition object is very rarely of interest. Use the type method if you are only interested in the column's type.

Returns

The Alzabo::Runtime::ColumnDefinition object which holds this column's type information.


AUTHOR

Dave Rolsky, <autarch@urth.org>

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