DBIx::Class::Helper::ResultSet::OneRow - The first you always wanted

       Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt <frioux+cpan@gmail.com>

       This software is copyright (c) 2024 by Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5
       programming language system itself.

perl v5.40.0                                       2024-11-16             DBIx::Class::He...sultSet::OneRow(3pm)

       This component codifies an alternate version of "first" in DBIx::Class::ResultSet.  In practical use,
       "first" allows a user to do something like the following:

        my $rs = $schema->resultset('Foo')->search({ name => 'bar' });
        my $first = $rs->first;
        my @rest;
        while (my $row = $rs->next) {
           push @rest, $row
        }

       Problematically, if you call "first" without the while loop afterwards and you got back more than one
       row, you are leaving a cursor open.  Depending on your database this could increase memory usage or cause
       errors with later queries.

       Fundamentally the difference is that when you use "one_row" you are guaranteed to exhaust the underlying
       cursor.

       Generally speaking, unless you are doing something unusual, "one_row" is a good default.

one_row($cond?)
       Limits the ResultSet to a single row, and then returns the matching result object. In case no rows match,
       "undef" is returned as normal.

       The optional $cond argument can be used like in search().

       DBIx::Class::Helper::ResultSet::OneRow - The first you always wanted

        # note that this is normally a component for a ResultSet
        package MySchema::ResultSet::Person;

        use strict;
        use warnings;

        use parent 'DBIx::Class::ResultSet';

        __PACKAGE__->load_components('Helper::ResultSet::OneRow');

        sub person_named {
           $_[0]->search({ name => $_[1] })->one_row
        }

       Thanks to Aran Clary Deltac (BLUEFEET) for initially writing this module, and thanks to ZipRecruiter
       <https://www.ziprecruiter.com> for sponsoring that initial development.