Preparing to release 1.30 with change for gnusosa.

Changes

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 Revision history for Dancer-Plugin-Database
 
+1.30    2011-05-23
+        - Allow passing an empty hashref for where clause to signify that no
+          where clause is desired (i.e. return all rows).
+          Requested by Carlos Sosa (gnusosa) - thanks!
+
 1.24    2011-05-09
         - Bugfixes in logging - avoid DBI swallowing up the param I'd wrongly
           named, and avoid warnings if any params are undef.

README

@@ -177,6 +177,9 @@ CONVENIENCE FEATURES (quick_select, quick_update, quick_insert, quick_delete)
       # Delete the row with id 42:
       database->quick_delete($table_name, { id => 42 });
 
+      # Fetch all rows from a table (since version 1.30):
+      database->quick_select($table_name, {});
+
 AUTHOR
     David Precious, `<davidp@preshweb.co.uk>'
 
@@ -202,6 +205,10 @@ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 
     Michael Stiller
 
+    Martin J Evans
+
+    Carlos Sosa
+
 BUGS
     Please report any bugs or feature requests to
     `bug-dancer-plugin-database at rt.cpan.org', or through the web

lib/Dancer/Plugin/Database.pm

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Dancer::Plugin::Database - easy database connections for Dancer applications
 
 =cut
 
-our $VERSION = '1.24';
+our $VERSION = '1.30';
 
 my $settings = undef;
 
@@ -423,6 +423,9 @@ Examples:
   # Delete the row with id 42:
   database->quick_delete($table_name, { id => 42 });
 
+  # Fetch all rows from a table (since version 1.30):
+  database->quick_select($table_name, {});
+
 
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
@@ -456,6 +459,8 @@ Michael Stiller
 
 Martin J Evans
 
+Carlos Sosa
+
 =head1 BUGS
 
 Please report any bugs or feature requests to C<bug-dancer-plugin-database at rt.cpan.org>, or through

lib/Dancer/Plugin/Database/Handle.pm

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use Carp;
 use DBI;
 use base qw(DBI::db);
 
-our $VERSION = '0.05';
+our $VERSION = '0.06';
 
 =head1 NAME
 
@@ -24,9 +24,13 @@ Subclassed DBI connection handle with added convenience features
   # Updating a record where id = 42:
   database->quick_update($tablename, { id => 42 }, { foo => 'New value' });
 
-  # Fetching a row quickly
+  # Fetching a single row quickly in scalar context
   my $employee = database->quick_select('employees', { id => $emp_id });
 
+  # Fetching multiple rows in list context - passing an empty hashref to signify
+  # no where clause (i.e. return all rows -  so "select * from $table_name"):
+  my @all_employees = database->quick_select('employees', {});
+
 
 =head1 Added features
 
@@ -225,6 +229,13 @@ Will result in:
 injection attacks will not work, but it's easier to illustrate as though the
 values were interpolated directly.  Don't worry, they're not.))
 
+You can pass an empty hashref if you  want all rows, e.g.:
+
+  database->quick_select('mytable', {});
+
+... is the same as C<"SELECT * FROM 'mytable'">
+
+
 TODO: this isn't very flexible; it would be nice to easily use other logic
 combinations, and other comparisons other than a straightforward equality
 comparison.  However, supporting this abstraction without the syntax used