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\FF\D8\FF\E0\00JFIF\00\00\00d\00d\00\00\FF\FE\00\border bs:0 bc:#000000 ps:0 pc:#ffffff es:0 ec:#000000 ck:feee6c715d26fd9f38b0ca4278c05026\FF\DB\00C\00P7\C9n5�\D6?\BD�\9Ds\EBp\9F[`8m\B7)o\B5\E8\E6I\99\FE3]]A2\BA\8Cw\D6E\93\\DEv\C8\009\F2\F1NI?uc\\F5\EA\96k\xN<~buv\EA\C8\D7 \8B\84\CEcxI\BBg\AE\9E=\D6+n\EC\80\C8A\8C\AE\EB\CF\D5\DA\E9"2\A4\B9j5\EB\F3W\B63\96\B30Yu\DA\FC8\ED\DF\E7Ms\FB\F1\8E\B3\FA\EA\E8\E6(\883zs\F2_\8DFk\8Bh \00\8C\DCw\D3R\B5+6X\BA\B2\C4j\AB0\B4\FCMw\C2I\8E\9B\E3\A9~9u\FA\D3l\80\C8%p\EE\FDn2� \00$\FEj\C4e\A9\DB\~\95\A7\A5\80EK\BB\8DDsP\00@@AD'k\CF\E8\DB\D2(\80\9AK\D3\85\D6lb\F2\BA\8C*\80\00)\95 59\A3R:\F3\CE"\B6\80\88\00\00i1u4�\E9\F2�\A6\A2\FACM\93WMb*\E0*\00\00\00\00\00(\A8\80\00\00\80\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\FF\D9 C/// =head1 NAME DBD::File::HowTo - Guide to create DBD::File based driver =head1 SYNOPSIS perldoc DBD::File::HowTo perldoc DBI perldoc DBI::DBD perldoc DBD::File::Developers perldoc DBI::DBD::SqlEngine::Developers perldoc DBI::DBD::SqlEngine perldoc SQL::Eval perldoc DBI::DBD::SqlEngine::HowTo perldoc SQL::Statement::Embed perldoc DBD::File perldoc DBD::File::HowTo perldoc DBD::File::Developers =head1 DESCRIPTION This document provides a step-by-step guide, how to create a new C based DBD. It expects that you carefully read the L documentation and that you're familiar with L and had read and understood L. This document addresses experienced developers who are really sure that they need to invest time when writing a new DBI Driver. Writing a DBI Driver is neither a weekend project nor an easy job for hobby coders after work. Expect one or two man-month of time for the first start. Those who are still reading, should be able to sing the rules of L. Of course, DBD::File is a DBI::DBD::SqlEngine and you surely read L before continuing here. =head1 CREATING DRIVER CLASSES Do you have an entry in DBI's DBD registry? For this guide, a prefix of C is assumed. =head2 Sample Skeleton package DBD::Foo; use strict; use warnings; use vars qw(@ISA $VERSION); use base qw(DBD::File); use DBI (); $VERSION = "0.001"; package DBD::Foo::dr; use vars qw(@ISA $imp_data_size); @ISA = qw(DBD::File::dr); $imp_data_size = 0; package DBD::Foo::db; use vars qw(@ISA $imp_data_size); @ISA = qw(DBD::File::db); $imp_data_size = 0; package DBD::Foo::st; use vars qw(@ISA $imp_data_size); @ISA = qw(DBD::File::st); $imp_data_size = 0; package DBD::Foo::Statement; use vars qw(@ISA); @ISA = qw(DBD::File::Statement); package DBD::Foo::Table; use vars qw(@ISA); @ISA = qw(DBD::File::Table); 1; Tiny, eh? And all you have now is a DBD named foo which will is able to deal with temporary tables, as long as you use L. In L environments, this DBD can do nothing. =head2 Start over Based on L, we're now having a driver which could do basic things. Of course, it should now derive from DBD::File instead of DBI::DBD::SqlEngine, shouldn't it? DBD::File extends DBI::DBD::SqlEngine to deal with any kind of files. In principle, the only extensions required are to the table class: package DBD::Foo::Table; sub bootstrap_table_meta { my ( $self, $dbh, $meta, $table ) = @_; # initialize all $meta attributes which might be relevant for # file2table return $self->SUPER::bootstrap_table_meta($dbh, $meta, $table); } sub init_table_meta { my ( $self, $dbh, $meta, $table ) = @_; # called after $meta contains the results from file2table # initialize all missing $meta attributes $self->SUPER::init_table_meta( $dbh, $meta, $table ); } In case C doesn't open the files as the driver needs that, override it! sub open_file { my ( $self, $meta, $attrs, $flags ) = @_