DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::DateTime(3p)

NAME
DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::DateTime - Auto-create DateTime objects from date and datetime columns.

SYNOPSIS
Load this component and then declare one or more columns to be of the datetime, timestamp or date datatype.

  package Event;
  __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/InflateColumn::DateTime Core/);
  __PACKAGE__->add_columns(
    starts_when => { data_type => 'datetime' }
  );

Then you can treat the specified column as a DateTime object.

  print "This event starts the month of ".
    $event->starts_when->month_name();

DESCRIPTION
This module figures out the type of DateTime::Format::* class to inflate/deflate with based on the type of DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::* that you are using. If you switch from one database to a different one your code should continue to work without modification (though note that this feature is new as of 0.07, so it may not be perfect yet - bug reports to the list very much welcome).

For more help with using components, see "USING" in DBIx::Class::Manual::Component.

  register_column
Chains with the "register_column" in DBIx::Class::Row method, and sets up datetime columns appropriately. This would not normally be directly called by end users.

SEE ALSO

More information about the add_columns method, and column metadata, can be found in the documentation for DBIx::Class::ResultSource.

AUTHOR
Matt S. Trout <mst@shadowcatsystems.co.uk>

CONTRIBUTORS
Aran Deltac <bluefeet@cpan.org>

LICENSE
You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.