Class::DBI::Cascade::Plugin::Nullify - Nullify related Class::DBI objects

Class-DBI-Cascade-Plugin-Nullify documentation Contained in the Class-DBI-Cascade-Plugin-Nullify distribution.

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NAME

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Class::DBI::Cascade::Plugin::Nullify - Nullify related Class::DBI objects

SYNOPSIS

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    package Music::Artist;
    # define your class here
    Music::Artist->has_many(cds => 'Music::CD', {cascade => 'Class::DBI::Cascade::Plugin::Nullify'});

DESCRIPTION

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This is a cascading nullify strategy (i.e. 'on delete set null') that will nullify any related Class::DBI objects.

THIS MODULE IS NOT LONGER DEVELOPED. Please consider Rose::DB::Object as a alternative to Class::DBI.

METHODS

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cascade

implementation of the cascading nullify strategy.

AUTHOR

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Xufeng (Danny) Liang (danny.glue@gmail.com)

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

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Copyright 2006-2010 Xufeng (Danny) Liang, All Rights Reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Class-DBI-Cascade-Plugin-Nullify documentation Contained in the Class-DBI-Cascade-Plugin-Nullify distribution. 
package Class::DBI::Cascade::Plugin::Nullify;

use strict;
use warnings;

use base 'Class::DBI::Cascade::None';

our $VERSION = 0.05;

sub cascade {
	my ($self, $obj) = @_;
	my $foreign_objects = $self->foreign_for($obj); # get all foreign objects
	my $foreign_key = $self->{_rel}->args->{foreign_key}; # get the foreign key
	
	while ( my $foreign_object = $foreign_objects->next) {	
		$foreign_object->$foreign_key(undef); # set foreign key value to null
		$foreign_object->update(); # update the object
	}
}

1;

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