1. If you are doing this for a learning experience, there are plenty of examples in the SQL and DBIx hierarchies on CPAN. Download a few and look at what they did.
  2. If you are trying to make a contribution to CPAN with the idea that what you are doing is somehow new, unique, or fills a gap, please be sure to look at the above and also heed the recent words of Dave Rolsky on the dbi-users@perl.org mailing list (which you should join if you are serious about staying up to date on such issues)
    There are a lot of tools that already provide wrappers around DBI. These include:

    Alzabo, DBIx::RecordSet, and Class::DBI all provide fairly high level RDBMS-OO mappers.

    Other lower-level wrappers include DBIx::Abstract, DBIx::Easy, DBIx::SearchBuilder, and EZDBI.

    There's really more than enough of these things at this point. Probably one of them already does most of the things yours does, so I'd suggest you find that one and offer the author patches for any features you think it might be missing.

In reply to Re: problems wrapping DBI by princepawn
in thread problems wrapping DBI by mr.dunstan

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