Hi everybody. I'm using Class::DBI inside a project to access an SQLite database. It works very well, but I'm facing a problem: the path to the database file (the db name) have to be harcoded inside the package.

I have the following packages

The DBI classes

package MyModule::DBI;

use base Class::DBI;

use warnings;
use strict;

our $VERSION = '0.01';

my $dsn = "dbi:SQLite:dbname=/path/to/db";

__PACKAGE__ -> set_db('Main', $dsn);

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And

package MyModule::Data;

use base MyModule::DBI;

use warnings;
use strict;

our $VERSION = '0.01';

__PACKAGE__ -> table('data');
__PACKAGE__ -> columns(All => qw(column1 column2 column3));

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And the main module

package MyModule;

use MyModule::Data;

use warnings;
use strict;

our $VERSION = '0.01';

sub new {
    my ($class, %args) = @_;
 
    my $self = bless({%args}, $class);

    return $self;
}

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It could be obvious but my question is, is it possible to call the new method and pass the path to the database and use it in MyModule::DBI? If yes, how?

What I want to do is something like

use MyModule;

my $obj = MyModule -> new(db_path => '/path/to/file');
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Thank you

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