[Dbix-class] Detecting connection errors

[Alberto Luaces]

Alberto Luaces <aluaces at udc.es> writes:

>> Sencondly, DBIx::Class only hits the database when it absolutely has
>>to,
>> e.g. to fetch restults.  This includes the initial connection.  However,
>> you can force it to connect early by calling
>>
>>    $schema->storage->ensure_connected;
>>
>> Which will throw an exception if it fails to connect.
>
> Yes, it sounds sensible for an ORM to be lazy, but I did not imagine
> that it could even involve connections.  Thanks a lot for the pointer.

Oops, I spoke too soon.  ensure_connected is not throwing.  Here is the
code for reference:

 1 use lib './lib';
 2 use DAAO;
 3 
 4 my $r = DAAO->connect("dbi:SQLite:non-existent.db");
 5 $r->storage->ensure_connected;
 6 
 7 my $resultset = $r->resultset('Alumno')->search;
 8 
 9 my $person = $resultset->next;	# Iterator
10 
11 print $person->asistencia;

It does not crash until line 9, when the iterator is used.

-- 
Alberto