Question

The access to read from the db has been given to me via mssql stored procedures that return result sets rather than tables or views. But I want to be able to read the data using ORM.

I tried to use DBIx::Class::ResultSource::View to do the procedure call (e.g. EXEC my_stored_proc ?) as a custom query but this didn’t work because it tried to convert the procedure call into a select statement.

Does anyone have another suggestion?

Answer 1

No, there is no reasonable way to execute a stored procedure in the context of DBIx::Class.

As far as I can tell, the closest thing to a workaround is “using the ORM” to get a database handle, which is weak soup:

   my @results = $schema->storage->dbh_do(sub{
         my ($storage, $dbh, @args) = @_;
         my $sth = $dbh->prepare('call storedProcNameFooBar()');
         my @data;
         $sth->execute();
         while( my $row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref){
             push @data, $row;
         }
         return @data;
    },());

[ see details at
http://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI#dbh_do ]

…as you get none of the benefits of an ORM for your trouble.