APM: DBI helper packages

[Wayne Walker]

Until this week I was sold on Class::DBI.  It creates a nice clean
object wrapper around a database table for you in 3 lines of code.

I've found a few things in it that I don't like about Class::DBI.

	SELECT return data is an array of objects rather than an array
		of hashrefs. (used to be the latter)
	Complex, multi-table SELECTs are near impossible to handle.

I'm leaning towards going back to DBIx::Broker which simply removesall
instances of this in your code:

 # Now retrieve data from the table.
 my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM foo");
 $sth->execute();
 while (my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref()) {
	push @results, $ref;
 }
 $sth->finish();

(and all the missing checks for prepare or execute failure)

	
and replaces it with things like:

  @query_results  =  $db->select_all( \@desired_tables, $WHERE_clause, $hash_or_not );

Does anyone have something else that they use that makes more sense?
Remember - big ugly multiple table SELECTs.

-- 

Wayne Walker

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