zebot::DB::Helper
zebot::DB::Helper module, fires up a number of worker processes that connect to the database, and then forks off with the incoming tasks.
Copyright (c) 2002 Bruno Boettcher
DB::Helper.pm is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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- CTOR
-
instantiation of the Helper
- init
-
Initiaize, means set up this module
- dbh
-
attribute getter previously provided by ObjecTemplate
- print
-
delegator, to make a copy of the console stream to a file, for debugging
purposes only, since somehow the STDOUT gets swallowed up for some cases....
- version
-
return the version of this module
- doQuery
-
perform a query to the database
arguments is hash:
query: SQL string or prepared statemnt
values: the optional arguments
type: hash|count for the momet for the returntype
- doExecute
-
execute a prepared statement
the return value is allready stripped of all DBI interference
- condense
-
pack up the data we received from the DB
array of hashes
- isa
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return the type of thie module
- shutdown
-
close down the activity for a safe shutdown
- prepare
-
prepare a sql statement for further refinement
- free
-
drop a prepared statement to liberate some space...
- batch
-
process a whole transaction
arguments are 1 arrays of queries as described in doQuery
- doReturn
-
since the return stuff grew complicated, made an own return method..
check if we can return a perl reference or if it must be go through a packing and to storable conversion stage
Bruno Böttcher <bboett at adlp.org>
zebot home page http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/zebot/
POD documentation of zebot
