NAME

SQL::Schema::Package::Body - A package's body stored within the database

SYNOPSIS

  my $body = SQL::Schema::Package::Body->new(%attr);

  my $sql = $body->create_statement;
  print $sql;

  print "$body";

DESCRIPTION

SQL::Schema::Package::Body is a class for objects representing a package's body stored within the database. The methods of an instanciated object do allow to access the information within a database's data dictionary and to represent them as SQL create statements and the like using the proper SQL dialect.

Constructors

  $body = SQL::Schema::Package::Body->new(%attr);

The new method instanciates a package body object. The object is an in memory representation of a (possible) database package body. The attributes are given as key value pairs by the hash %attr. Possible keys are:

  key               required?   value description

  name              yes         the name of the package
                                without preceeding schema name

  text              yes         the concatenation of all the text lines
                                forming the packag body's source code

As a package body is basically a piece of source stored within the database, this class inherits all methods from SQL::Schema::Source. So please have a look at the new method describet at the SQL::Schema::Source(3) manpage. Though the new method here overwrites the new method there, it calls the super class's new method with just the key value pair for the source's type added.

  $body = SQL::Schema::Package::Body->select($dbh,$name);

The select method fetches the attributes required by new from the database and returns the package body object. (It calls new internally.)

If the package body with the name $name could not be found within the database, the method returns undef.

The method's arguments are as follows:

$dbh: A database handle as defined by DBI(3).
$name: The name of the package without preceeding schema name.

Methods

The following attribute methods do exist:

  $type = $body->type;

The method type always returns the string ``package body''. This package inherits all the other methods from SQL::Schema::Source as a database package body basically is a special kind of source within the database. For more information, please have a look at the SQL::Schema::Source(3) manpage.

AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT

  SQL::Schema::Package::Body is Copyright (C) 2000,
    Torsten Hentschel
    Windmuehlenweg 47
    44141 Dortmund
    Germany

    Email: todd@bayleys.ping.de

  All rights reserved.