SQL::Translator::Parser::DBI - "parser" for DBI handles
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Description
This parser accepts an open database handle (or the arguments to create one) and queries the database
directly for the information.
The following are acceptable arguments:
• dbh
An open DBI database handle. NB: Be sure to create the database with the "FetchHashKeyName =>
'NAME_lc'" option as all the DBI parsers expect lowercased column names.
• dsn
The DSN to use for connecting to a database.
• db_user
The user name to use for connecting to a database.
• db_password
The password to use for connecting to a database.
There is no need to specify which type of database you are querying as this is determined automatically
by inspecting $dbh->{'Driver'}{'Name'}. If a parser exists for your database, it will be used
automatically; if not, the code will fail automatically (and you can write the parser and contribute it
to the project!).
Currently parsers exist for the following databases:
• MySQL
• SQLite
• Sybase
• PostgreSQL (still experimental)
Most of these parsers are able to query the database directly for the structure rather than parsing a
text file. For large schemas, this is probably orders of magnitude faster than traditional parsing
(which uses Parse::RecDescent, an amazing module but really quite slow).
Though no Oracle parser currently exists, it would be fairly easy to query an Oracle database directly by
using DDL::Oracle to generate a DDL for the schema and then using the normal Oracle parser on this.
Perhaps future versions of SQL::Translator will include the ability to query Oracle directly and skip the
parsing of a text file, too.
Name
SQL::Translator::Parser::DBI - "parser" for DBI handles
See Also
DBI, SQL::Translator.
perl v5.40.0 2024-11-23 SQL::Translator::Parser::DBI(3pm)
Synopsis
use DBI;
use SQL::Translator;
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dsn', 'user', 'pass',
{
RaiseError => 1,
FetchHashKeyName => 'NAME_lc',
}
);
my $translator = SQL::Translator->new(
parser => 'DBI',
parser_args => {
dbh => $dbh,
},
);
Or:
use SQL::Translator;
my $translator = SQL::Translator->new(
parser => 'DBI',
parser_args => {
dsn => 'dbi:mysql:FOO',
db_user => 'guest',
db_password => 'password',
}
);
