[Dbix-class] Detecting connection errors

[David Ihnen]

I think we did something silly like doing a meaningless select/ping type
operation just to make sure everything was cool in the DBIx application I
worked on years ago.  There may be a better answer these days though?

David

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Alberto Luaces <aluaces at udc.es> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I stumped over a problem when learning to use DBIx::Class.  I had a typo
> on the filename holding the database, but no exception was thrown until
> I wanted to retrieve some results, which was not intuitive for me.  How
> do you check for a successful connection?
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> use My::Schema;
>
> # Does not die even the filename is wrong!
> my $r = My::Schema->connect("dbi:SQLite:expgraf.db") or die('conn error');
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Alberto
>
>
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