PApp-SQL/SQL.pm

=head1 NAME

PApp::SQL - absolutely easy yet fast and powerful sql access

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 use PApp::SQL;
 # to be written

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This module provides you with easy-to-use functions to execute sql
commands (using DBI). Despite being easy to use, they are also quite
efficient and allow you to write faster programs in less lines of code.

=over 4

=cut

package PApp::SQL;

use DBI;

#use PApp::Exception; # not yet used

BEGIN {
   use base Exporter;

   $VERSION = 0.11;
   @EXPORT = qw(
         sql_exec sql_fetch sql_fetchall sql_exists sql_insertid $sql_exec
   );
   @EXPORT_OK = qw(
         connect_cached
   );

   require XSLoader;
   XSLoader::load PApp::SQL, $VERSION;
}

our $sql_exec;  # last result of sql_exec's execute call
our $DBH;       # the default database handle
our $database;  # the current SQL::Database object, if applicable

our %dbcache;

=item $dbh = connect_cached $id, $dsn, $user, $pass, $flags, $connect

(not exported by by default)

Connect to the database given by C<($dsn,$user,$pass)>, while using the
flags from C<$flags>. These are just the same arguments as given to
C<DBI->connect>.

The database handle will be cached under the unique id
C<$id|$dsn|$user|$pass>. If the same id is requested later, the
cached handle will be checked (using ping), and the connection will
be re-established if necessary (be sure to prefix your application or
module name to the id to make it "more" unique. Things like __PACKAGE__ .
__LINE__ work fine as well).

The reason C<$id> is necessary is that you might specify special connect
arguments or special flags, or you might want to configure your $DBH
differently than maybe other applications requesting the same database
connection. If none of this is becessary for your application you can
leave $id empty (i.e. "").

If specified, C<$connect> is a callback (e.g. a coderef) that will be
called each time a new connection is being established, with the new
C<$dbh> as first argument.

Examples:

 # try your luck opening the papp database without access info
 $dbh = connect_cached __FILE__, "DBI:mysql:papp";

=cut

sub connect_cached {
   my ($id, $dsn, $user, $pass, $flags, $connect) = @_;
   # the following line is duplicated in PApp::SQL::Database::new
   $id = "$id\0$dsn\0$user\0$pass";
   unless ($dbcache{$id} && $dbcache{$id}->ping) {
      #warn "connecting to ($dsn|$user|$pass|$flags)\n";#d#
      # first, nuke our statement cache (sooory ;)
      cachesize cachesize 0;
      # then connect anew
      $dbcache{$id} =
         eval { DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $pass, $flags) }
         || eval { DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $pass, $flags) }
         || die "unable to connect to database $dsn: $DBI::errstr\n";
      $connect->($dbcache{$id}) if $connect;
   }
   $dbcache{$id};
}

=item $sth = sql_exec [dbh,] [bind-vals...,] "sql-statement", [arguments...]

C<sql_exec> is the most important and most-used function in this module.

Runs the given sql command with the given parameters and returns the
statement handle. The command and the statement handle will be cached
(with the database handle and the sql string as key), so prepare will be
called only once for each distinct sql call (please keep in mind that the
returned statement will always be the same, so, if you call C<sql_exec>
with the same dbh and sql-statement twice (e.g. in a subroutine you
called), the statement handle for the first call mustn't be used.

The database handle (the first argument) is optional. If it is missing,
C<sql_exec> first tries to use the variable C<$DBH> in the current (=
calling) package and, if that fails, it tries to use database handle in
C<$PApp::SQL::DBH>, which you can set before calling these functions.

The actual return value from the C<$sth->execute> call is stored in the
package-global (and exported) variable C<$sql_exec>.

If any error occurs C<sql_exec> will throw an exception.

Examples:

 # easy one
 my $st = sql_exec "select name, id from table where id = ?", $id;
 while (my ($name, $id) = $st->fetchrow_array) { ... };

 # the fastest way to use dbi, using bind_columns
 my $st = sql_exec \my($name, $id),
                   "select name, id from table where id = ?",
                   $id;
 while ($st->fetch) { ...}

 # now use a different dastabase:
 sql_exec $dbh, "update file set name = ?", "oops.txt";


=item sql_fetch <see sql_exec>

Execute a sql-statement and fetch the first row of results. Depending on
the caller context the row will be returned as a list (array context), or
just the first columns. In table form:

 CONTEXT        RESULT
 void           ()
 scalar         first column
 list           array

C<sql_fetch> is quite efficient in conjunction with bind variables:

 sql_fetch \my($name, $amount),
           "select name, amount from table where id name  = ?",
           "Toytest";

But of course the normal way to call it is simply:

 my($name, $amount) = sql_fetch "select ...", args...

... and it's still quite fast unless you fetch large amounts of data.

=item sql_fetchall <see sql_exec>

Similarly to C<sql_fetch>, but all result rows will be fetched (this is
of course inefficient for large results!). The context is ignored (only
list context makes sense), but the result still depends on the number of
columns in the result:

 COLUMNS        RESULT
 0              ()
 1              (row1, row2, row3...)
 many           ([row1], [row2], [row3]...)

Examples (all of which are inefficient):

 for (sql_fetchall "select id from table") { ... }

 my @names = sql_fetchall "select name from user";

 for (sql_fetchall "select name, age, place from user") {
    my ($name, $age, $place) = @$_;
 }

=item sql_exists "<table> where ...", args...

Check wether the result of the sql-statement "select xxx from
$first_argument" would be empty or not (that is, imagine the string
"select from" were prepended to your statement (it isn't)). Should work
with every database but can be quite slow, except on mysql, where this
should be quite fast.

Examples:

 print "user 7 exists!\n"
    if sql_exists "user where id = ?", 7;
 
 die "duplicate key"
    if sql_exists "user where name = ? and pass = ?", "stefan", "geheim";

=cut

=item $lastid = sql_insertid $sth

Returns the last automatically created key value (e.g. for mysql
AUTO_INCREMENT or sybase IDENTITY fields). It must be executed directly
after executing the insert statement that created it.

=cut

sub sql_insertid($) {
   my $sth = shift or die "sql_insertid requires a statement handle";
   my $dbh = $sth->{Database};
   my $driver = $dbh->{Driver}{Name};

   $driver eq "mysql" and return $sth->{mysql_insertid};
   $driver eq "Sybase" and return sql_fetch($dbh, 'SELECT @@IDENTITY');
   $driver eq "Informix" and return $sth->{ix_sqlerrd}[1];

   die "sql_insertid does not spport the dbd driver '$driver', please see PApp::SQL::sql_insertid";
}

=item [old-size] = cachesize [new-size]

Returns (and possibly changes) the LRU cache size used by C<sql_exec>. The
default is somewhere around 50 (= the 50 last recently used statements
will be cached). It shouldn't be too large, since a simple linear listed
is used for the cache at the moment (which, for small (<100) cache sizes
is actually quite fast).

The function always returns the cache size in effect I<before> the call,
so, to nuke the cache (for example, when a database connection has died
or you want to garbage collect old database/statement handles), this
construct can be used:

 PApp::SQL::cachesize PApp::SQL::cachesize 0;

=cut

=item reinitialize [not exported]

Clears any internal caches (statement cache, database handle cache).

=cut

sub reinitialize {
   cachesize cachesize 0;
   for (values %dbcache) {
      eval { $_->disconnect };
   }
   undef %dbcache;
}

=back

=cut

reinitialize;

package PApp::SQL::Database;

=head2 THE DATABASE CLASS

Again (sigh) the problem of persistency. What do you do when you have to serialize on object
that contains (or should contain) a database handle? Short answer: you don't. Long answer:
you can embed the necessary information to recreate the dbh when needed.

The C<PApp::SQL::Database> class does that, in a relatively efficient
fashion: the overhead is currently a single method call per access (you
can cache the real dbh if you want).

=over 4

=item $db = new <same arguments as C<connect_cached>>

The C<new> call takes the same arguments as C<connect_cached> (obviously,
if you supply a connect callback it better is serializable, see
L<PApp::Callback>!) and returns a serializable database class. No database
handle is actually being created.

=item $db->dbh

Return the database handle as fast as possible (usually just a hash lookup).

=item $db->checked_dbh

Return the database handle, but first check that the database is still
available and re-open the connection if necessary.

=cut

sub new($$;@) {
   my $class = shift;
   my ($id, $dsn, $user, $pass, $flags, $connect) = @_;
   # the following line is duplicated in PApp::SQL::Database::new
   my $id2 = "$id\0$dsn\0$user\0$pass";
   bless [$id2, $flags, $connect], $class;
}

# the following two functions better be fast!
sub dbh($) {
   $dbcache{$_[0][0]} || $_[0]->checked_dbh;
}

sub checked_dbh($) {
   my $dbh = $dbcache{$_[0][0]};
   $dbh && $dbh->ping
      ? $dbh
      : PApp::SQL::connect_cached((split /\x00/, $_[0][0]), $_[0][1], $_[0][2]);
}

=item $db->dsn

Return the DSN (L<DBI>) fo the database object (e.g. for error messages).

=cut

sub dsn($) {
   my $self = shift;
   $self->[1][1];
}

=back

=cut

1;

=head1 BUGS

As of this writing, sql_fetch and sql_fetchall are not very well tested
(they were just re-written in C).

sql_exists could be faster (it is written very ugly to not change the
current package).

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<PApp>.

=head1 AUTHOR

 Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>
 http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/

=cut

Revision:	1.7
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#	User	Rev	Content
1	root	1.1	=head1 NAME
2
3			PApp::SQL - absolutely easy yet fast and powerful sql access
4
5			=head1 SYNOPSIS
6
7			use PApp::SQL;
8			# to be written
9
10			=head1 DESCRIPTION
11
12			This module provides you with easy-to-use functions to execute sql
13			commands (using DBI). Despite being easy to use, they are also quite
14			efficient and allow you to write faster programs in less lines of code.
15
16			=over 4
17
18			=cut
19
20			package PApp::SQL;
21
22			use DBI;
23
24			#use PApp::Exception; # not yet used
25
26			BEGIN {
27			use base Exporter;
28
29	root	1.4	$VERSION = 0.11;
30	root	1.1	@EXPORT = qw(
31			sql_exec sql_fetch sql_fetchall sql_exists sql_insertid $sql_exec
32			);
33			@EXPORT_OK = qw(
34			connect_cached
35			);
36
37			require XSLoader;
38			XSLoader::load PApp::SQL, $VERSION;
39			}
40
41			our $sql_exec; # last result of sql_exec's execute call
42			our $DBH; # the default database handle
43			our $database; # the current SQL::Database object, if applicable
44
45			our %dbcache;
46
47			=item $dbh = connect_cached $id, $dsn, $user, $pass, $flags, $connect
48
49			(not exported by by default)
50
51			Connect to the database given by C<($dsn,$user,$pass)>, while using the
52			flags from C<$flags>. These are just the same arguments as given to
53			C<DBI->connect>.
54
55	root	1.6	The database handle will be cached under the unique id
56			C<$id\|$dsn\|$user\|$pass>. If the same id is requested later, the
57			cached handle will be checked (using ping), and the connection will
58			be re-established if necessary (be sure to prefix your application or
59			module name to the id to make it "more" unique. Things like __PACKAGE__ .
60			__LINE__ work fine as well).
61
62			The reason C<$id> is necessary is that you might specify special connect
63			arguments or special flags, or you might want to configure your $DBH
64			differently than maybe other applications requesting the same database
65			connection. If none of this is becessary for your application you can
66			leave $id empty (i.e. "").
67	root	1.1
68			If specified, C<$connect> is a callback (e.g. a coderef) that will be
69			called each time a new connection is being established, with the new
70			C<$dbh> as first argument.
71
72			Examples:
73
74			# try your luck opening the papp database without access info
75			$dbh = connect_cached __FILE__, "DBI:mysql:papp";
76
77			=cut
78
79			sub connect_cached {
80			my ($id, $dsn, $user, $pass, $flags, $connect) = @_;
81			# the following line is duplicated in PApp::SQL::Database::new
82			$id = "$id\0$dsn\0$user\0$pass";
83			unless ($dbcache{$id} && $dbcache{$id}->ping) {
84			#warn "connecting to ($dsn\|$user\|$pass\|$flags)\n";#d#
85	root	1.5	# first, nuke our statement cache (sooory ;)
86	root	1.1	cachesize cachesize 0;
87			# then connect anew
88			$dbcache{$id} =
89			eval { DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $pass, $flags) }
90			\|\| eval { DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $pass, $flags) }
91	root	1.5	\|\| die "unable to connect to database $dsn: $DBI::errstr\n";
92	root	1.1	$connect->($dbcache{$id}) if $connect;
93			}
94			$dbcache{$id};
95			}
96
97			=item $sth = sql_exec [dbh,] [bind-vals...,] "sql-statement", [arguments...]
98
99			C<sql_exec> is the most important and most-used function in this module.
100
101			Runs the given sql command with the given parameters and returns the
102			statement handle. The command and the statement handle will be cached
103			(with the database handle and the sql string as key), so prepare will be
104			called only once for each distinct sql call (please keep in mind that the
105			returned statement will always be the same, so, if you call C<sql_exec>
106			with the same dbh and sql-statement twice (e.g. in a subroutine you
107			called), the statement handle for the first call mustn't be used.
108
109			The database handle (the first argument) is optional. If it is missing,
110			C<sql_exec> first tries to use the variable C<$DBH> in the current (=
111			calling) package and, if that fails, it tries to use database handle in
112			C<$PApp::SQL::DBH>, which you can set before calling these functions.
113
114			The actual return value from the C<$sth->execute> call is stored in the
115			package-global (and exported) variable C<$sql_exec>.
116
117			If any error occurs C<sql_exec> will throw an exception.
118
119			Examples:
120
121			# easy one
122			my $st = sql_exec "select name, id from table where id = ?", $id;
123			while (my ($name, $id) = $st->fetchrow_array) { ... };
124
125			# the fastest way to use dbi, using bind_columns
126			my $st = sql_exec \my($name, $id),
127			"select name, id from table where id = ?",
128			$id;
129			while ($st->fetch) { ...}
130
131			# now use a different dastabase:
132			sql_exec $dbh, "update file set name = ?", "oops.txt";
133
134
135			=item sql_fetch <see sql_exec>
136
137			Execute a sql-statement and fetch the first row of results. Depending on
138			the caller context the row will be returned as a list (array context), or
139			just the first columns. In table form:
140
141			CONTEXT RESULT
142			void ()
143			scalar first column
144			list array
145
146			C<sql_fetch> is quite efficient in conjunction with bind variables:
147
148			sql_fetch \my($name, $amount),
149			"select name, amount from table where id name = ?",
150			"Toytest";
151
152			But of course the normal way to call it is simply:
153
154			my($name, $amount) = sql_fetch "select ...", args...
155
156			... and it's still quite fast unless you fetch large amounts of data.
157
158			=item sql_fetchall <see sql_exec>
159
160			Similarly to C<sql_fetch>, but all result rows will be fetched (this is
161			of course inefficient for large results!). The context is ignored (only
162			list context makes sense), but the result still depends on the number of
163			columns in the result:
164
165			COLUMNS RESULT
166			0 ()
167			1 (row1, row2, row3...)
168			many ([row1], [row2], [row3]...)
169
170			Examples (all of which are inefficient):
171
172			for (sql_fetchall "select id from table") { ... }
173
174			my @names = sql_fetchall "select name from user";
175
176			for (sql_fetchall "select name, age, place from user") {
177			my ($name, $age, $place) = @$_;
178			}
179
180			=item sql_exists "<table> where ...", args...
181
182			Check wether the result of the sql-statement "select xxx from
183			$first_argument" would be empty or not (that is, imagine the string
184			"select from" were prepended to your statement (it isn't)). Should work
185			with every database but can be quite slow, except on mysql, where this
186			should be quite fast.
187
188			Examples:
189
190			print "user 7 exists!\n"
191			if sql_exists "user where id = ?", 7;
192
193			die "duplicate key"
194			if sql_exists "user where name = ? and pass = ?", "stefan", "geheim";
195
196			=cut
197
198	root	1.3	=item $lastid = sql_insertid $sth
199
200			Returns the last automatically created key value (e.g. for mysql
201			AUTO_INCREMENT or sybase IDENTITY fields). It must be executed directly
202			after executing the insert statement that created it.
203
204			=cut
205
206			sub sql_insertid($) {
207			my $sth = shift or die "sql_insertid requires a statement handle";
208			my $dbh = $sth->{Database};
209			my $driver = $dbh->{Driver}{Name};
210
211			$driver eq "mysql" and return $sth->{mysql_insertid};
212			$driver eq "Sybase" and return sql_fetch($dbh, 'SELECT @@IDENTITY');
213			$driver eq "Informix" and return $sth->{ix_sqlerrd}[1];
214
215			die "sql_insertid does not spport the dbd driver '$driver', please see PApp::SQL::sql_insertid";
216	root	1.1	}
217
218			=item [old-size] = cachesize [new-size]
219
220			Returns (and possibly changes) the LRU cache size used by C<sql_exec>. The
221			default is somewhere around 50 (= the 50 last recently used statements
222			will be cached). It shouldn't be too large, since a simple linear listed
223			is used for the cache at the moment (which, for small (<100) cache sizes
224			is actually quite fast).
225
226			The function always returns the cache size in effect I<before> the call,
227			so, to nuke the cache (for example, when a database connection has died
228			or you want to garbage collect old database/statement handles), this
229			construct can be used:
230
231			PApp::SQL::cachesize PApp::SQL::cachesize 0;
232
233			=cut
234
235			=item reinitialize [not exported]
236
237			Clears any internal caches (statement cache, database handle cache).
238
239			=cut
240
241			sub reinitialize {
242			cachesize cachesize 0;
243			for (values %dbcache) {
244			eval { $_->disconnect };
245			}
246			undef %dbcache;
247			}
248
249			=back
250
251			=cut
252
253	root	1.7	reinitialize;
254
255	root	1.1	package PApp::SQL::Database;
256
257			=head2 THE DATABASE CLASS
258
259			Again (sigh) the problem of persistency. What do you do when you have to serialize on object
260			that contains (or should contain) a database handle? Short answer: you don't. Long answer:
261			you can embed the necessary information to recreate the dbh when needed.
262
263			The C<PApp::SQL::Database> class does that, in a relatively efficient
264			fashion: the overhead is currently a single method call per access (you
265			can cache the real dbh if you want).
266
267			=over 4
268
269			=item $db = new <same arguments as C<connect_cached>>
270
271			The C<new> call takes the same arguments as C<connect_cached> (obviously,
272			if you supply a connect callback it better is serializable, see
273			L<PApp::Callback>!) and returns a serializable database class. No database
274			handle is actually being created.
275
276			=item $db->dbh
277
278			Return the database handle as fast as possible (usually just a hash lookup).
279
280			=item $db->checked_dbh
281
282			Return the database handle, but first check that the database is still
283			available and re-open the connection if necessary.
284
285			=cut
286
287			sub new($$;@) {
288			my $class = shift;
289			my ($id, $dsn, $user, $pass, $flags, $connect) = @_;
290			# the following line is duplicated in PApp::SQL::Database::new
291			my $id2 = "$id\0$dsn\0$user\0$pass";
292			bless [$id2, $flags, $connect], $class;
293			}
294
295			# the following two functions better be fast!
296			sub dbh($) {
297			$dbcache{$_[0][0]} \|\| $_[0]->checked_dbh;
298			}
299
300			sub checked_dbh($) {
301			my $dbh = $dbcache{$_[0][0]};
302			$dbh && $dbh->ping
303			? $dbh
304			: PApp::SQL::connect_cached((split /\x00/, $_[0][0]), $_[0][1], $_[0][2]);
305			}
306
307			=item $db->dsn
308
309			Return the DSN (L<DBI>) fo the database object (e.g. for error messages).
310
311			=cut
312
313			sub dsn($) {
314			my $self = shift;
315			$self->[1][1];
316			}
317
318			=back
319
320			=cut
321
322			1;
323
324			=head1 BUGS
325
326			As of this writing, sql_fetch and sql_fetchall are not very well tested
327			(they were just re-written in C).
328
329			sql_exists could be faster (it is written very ugly to not change the
330			current package).
331
332			=head1 SEE ALSO
333
334			L<PApp>.
335
336			=head1 AUTHOR
337
338			Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>
339			http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/
340
341			=cut
342