DBIx::Class::ResultSet - Represents a query used for fetching a set of results.


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DBIx::Class::ResultSet - Represents a query used for fetching a set of results.

SYNOPSIS

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  my $users_rs   = $schema->resultset('User');
  while( $user = $users_rs->next) {
    print $user->username;
  }

  my $registered_users_rs   = $schema->resultset('User')->search({ registered => 1 });
  my @cds_in_2005 = $schema->resultset('CD')->search({ year => 2005 })->all();

DESCRIPTION

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A ResultSet is an object which stores a set of conditions representing a query. It is the backbone of DBIx::Class (i.e. the really important/useful bit).

No SQL is executed on the database when a ResultSet is created, it just stores all the conditions needed to create the query.

A basic ResultSet representing the data of an entire table is returned by calling resultset on a DBIx::Class::Schema and passing in a Source (Source in DBIx::Class::Manual::Glossary) name.

  my $users_rs = $schema->resultset('User');

A new ResultSet is returned from calling search on an existing ResultSet. The new one will contain all the conditions of the original, plus any new conditions added in the search call.

A ResultSet also incorporates an implicit iterator. next and reset can be used to walk through all the DBIx::Class::Rows the ResultSet represents.

The query that the ResultSet represents is only executed against the database when these methods are called: find, next, all, first, single, count.

If a resultset is used in a numeric context it returns the count. However, if it is used in a boolean context it is always true. So if you want to check if a resultset has any results, you must use if $rs != 0.

EXAMPLES

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Chaining resultsets

Let's say you've got a query that needs to be run to return some data to the user. But, you have an authorization system in place that prevents certain users from seeing certain information. So, you want to construct the basic query in one method, but add constraints to it in another.

  sub get_data {
    my $self = shift;
    my $request = $self->get_request; # Get a request object somehow.
    my $schema = $self->get_schema;   # Get the DBIC schema object somehow.

    my $cd_rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->search({
      title => $request->param('title'),
      year => $request->param('year'),
    });

    $cd_rs = $self->apply_security_policy( $cd_rs );

    return $cd_rs->all();
  }

  sub apply_security_policy {
    my $self = shift;
    my ($rs) = @_;

    return $rs->search({
      subversive => 0,
    });
  }

Resolving conditions and attributes

When a resultset is chained from another resultset, conditions and attributes with the same keys need resolving.

join, prefetch, +select, +as attributes are merged into the existing ones from the original resultset.

The where and having attributes, and any search conditions, are merged with an SQL AND to the existing condition from the original resultset.

All other attributes are overridden by any new ones supplied in the search attributes.

Multiple queries

Since a resultset just defines a query, you can do all sorts of things with it with the same object.

  # Don't hit the DB yet.
  my $cd_rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->search({
    title => 'something',
    year => 2009,
  });

  # Each of these hits the DB individually.
  my $count = $cd_rs->count;
  my $most_recent = $cd_rs->get_column('date_released')->max();
  my @records = $cd_rs->all;

And it's not just limited to SELECT statements.

  $cd_rs->delete();

This is even cooler:

  $cd_rs->create({ artist => 'Fred' });

Which is the same as:

  $schema->resultset('CD')->create({
    title => 'something',
    year => 2009,
    artist => 'Fred'
  });

See: search, count, get_column, all, create.

METHODS

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new

Arguments: $source, \%$attrs
Return Value: $rs

The resultset constructor. Takes a source object (usually a DBIx::Class::ResultSourceProxy::Table) and an attribute hash (see ATTRIBUTES below). Does not perform any queries -- these are executed as needed by the other methods.

Generally you won't need to construct a resultset manually. You'll automatically get one from e.g. a search called in scalar context:

  my $rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->search({ title => '100th Window' });

IMPORTANT: If called on an object, proxies to new_result instead so

  my $cd = $schema->resultset('CD')->new({ title => 'Spoon' });

will return a CD object, not a ResultSet.

Arguments: $cond, \%attrs?
Return Value: $resultset (scalar context) || @row_objs (list context)
  my @cds    = $cd_rs->search({ year => 2001 }); # "... WHERE year = 2001"
  my $new_rs = $cd_rs->search({ year => 2005 });

  my $new_rs = $cd_rs->search([ { year => 2005 }, { year => 2004 } ]);
                 # year = 2005 OR year = 2004

In list context, ->all() is called implicitly on the resultset, thus returning a list of row objects instead. To avoid that, use search_rs.

If you need to pass in additional attributes but no additional condition, call it as search(undef, \%attrs).

  # "SELECT name, artistid FROM $artist_table"
  my @all_artists = $schema->resultset('Artist')->search(undef, {
    columns => [qw/name artistid/],
  });

For a list of attributes that can be passed to search, see ATTRIBUTES. For more examples of using this function, see Searching (Searching in DBIx::Class::Manual::Cookbook). For a complete documentation for the first argument, see SQL::Abstract and its extension DBIx::Class::SQLMaker.

For more help on using joins with search, see DBIx::Class::Manual::Joining.

CAVEAT

Note that search does not process/deflate any of the values passed in the SQL::Abstract-compatible search condition structure. This is unlike other condition-bound methods new, create and find. The user must ensure manually that any value passed to this method will stringify to something the RDBMS knows how to deal with. A notable example is the handling of DateTime objects, for more info see: Formatting_DateTime_objects_in_queries in DBIx::Class::Manual::Cookbook.

search_rs

Arguments: $cond, \%attrs?
Return Value: $resultset

This method does the same exact thing as search() except it will always return a resultset, even in list context.

search_literal

Arguments: $sql_fragment, @bind_values
Return Value: $resultset (scalar context) || @row_objs (list context)
  my @cds   = $cd_rs->search_literal('year = ? AND title = ?', qw/2001 Reload/);
  my $newrs = $artist_rs->search_literal('name = ?', 'Metallica');

Pass a literal chunk of SQL to be added to the conditional part of the resultset query.

CAVEAT: search_literal is provided for Class::DBI compatibility and should only be used in that context. search_literal is a convenience method. It is equivalent to calling $schema->search(\[]), but if you want to ensure columns are bound correctly, use search.

Example of how to use search instead of search_literal

  my @cds = $cd_rs->search_literal('cdid = ? AND (artist = ? OR artist = ?)', (2, 1, 2));
  my @cds = $cd_rs->search(\[ 'cdid = ? AND (artist = ? OR artist = ?)', [ 'cdid', 2 ], [ 'artist', 1 ], [ 'artist', 2 ] ]);




See Searching in DBIx::Class::Manual::Cookbook and Searching in DBIx::Class::Manual::FAQ for searching techniques that do not require search_literal.

find

Arguments: \%columns_values | @pk_values, \%attrs?
Return Value: $row_object | undef

Finds and returns a single row based on supplied criteria. Takes either a hashref with the same format as create (including inference of foreign keys from related objects), or a list of primary key values in the same order as the primary columns declaration on the result_source.

In either case an attempt is made to combine conditions already existing on the resultset with the condition passed to this method.

To aid with preparing the correct query for the storage you may supply the key attribute, which is the name of a unique constraint (the unique constraint corresponding to the primary columns is always named primary). If the key attribute has been supplied, and DBIC is unable to construct a query that satisfies the named unique constraint fully ( non-NULL values for each column member of the constraint) an exception is thrown.

If no key is specified, the search is carried over all unique constraints which are fully defined by the available condition.

If no such constraint is found, find currently defaults to a simple search->(\%column_values) which may or may not do what you expect. Note that this fallback behavior may be deprecated in further versions. If you need to search with arbitrary conditions - use search. If the query resulting from this fallback produces more than one row, a warning to the effect is issued, though only the first row is constructed and returned as $row_object.

In addition to key, find recognizes and applies standard resultset attributes in the same way as search does.

Note that if you have extra concerns about the correctness of the resulting query you need to specify the key attribute and supply the entire condition as an argument to find (since it is not always possible to perform the combination of the resultset condition with the supplied one, especially if the resultset condition contains literal sql).

For example, to find a row by its primary key:

  my $cd = $schema->resultset('CD')->find(5);

You can also find a row by a specific unique constraint:

  my $cd = $schema->resultset('CD')->find(
    {
      artist => 'Massive Attack',
      title  => 'Mezzanine',
    },
    { key => 'cd_artist_title' }
  );

See also find_or_create and update_or_create.

cursor

Arguments: none
Return Value: $cursor

Returns a storage-driven cursor to the given resultset. See DBIx::Class::Cursor for more information.

single

Arguments: $cond?
Return Value: $row_object | undef
  my $cd = $schema->resultset('CD')->single({ year => 2001 });

Inflates the first result without creating a cursor if the resultset has any records in it; if not returns undef. Used by find as a lean version of search.

While this method can take an optional search condition (just like search) being a fast-code-path it does not recognize search attributes. If you need to add extra joins or similar, call search and then chain-call single on the DBIx::Class::ResultSet returned.

Note

As of 0.08100, this method enforces the assumption that the preceding query returns only one row. If more than one row is returned, you will receive a warning:

  Query returned more than one row

In this case, you should be using next or find instead, or if you really know what you are doing, use the rows attribute to explicitly limit the size of the resultset.

This method will also throw an exception if it is called on a resultset prefetching has_many, as such a prefetch implies fetching multiple rows from the database in order to assemble the resulting object.

get_column

Arguments: $cond?
Return Value: $resultsetcolumn
  my $max_length = $rs->get_column('length')->max;

Returns a DBIx::Class::ResultSetColumn instance for a column of the ResultSet.

search_like

Arguments: $cond, \%attrs?
Return Value: $resultset (scalar context) || @row_objs (list context)
  # WHERE title LIKE '%blue%'
  $cd_rs = $rs->search_like({ title => '%blue%'});

Performs a search, but uses LIKE instead of = as the condition. Note that this is simply a convenience method retained for ex Class::DBI users. You most likely want to use search with specific operators.

For more information, see DBIx::Class::Manual::Cookbook.

This method is deprecated and will be removed in 0.09. Use search() instead. An example conversion is:

  ->search_like({ foo => 'bar' });

  # Becomes

  ->search({ foo => { like => 'bar' } });

slice

Arguments: $first, $last
Return Value: $resultset (scalar context) || @row_objs (list context)

Returns a resultset or object list representing a subset of elements from the resultset slice is called on. Indexes are from 0, i.e., to get the first three records, call:

  my ($one, $two, $three) = $rs->slice(0, 2);

next

Arguments: none
Return Value: $result | undef

Returns the next element in the resultset (undef is there is none).

Can be used to efficiently iterate over records in the resultset:

  my $rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->search;
  while (my $cd = $rs->next) {
    print $cd->title;
  }

Note that you need to store the resultset object, and call next on it. Calling resultset('Table')->next repeatedly will always return the first record from the resultset.

result_source

Arguments: $result_source?
Return Value: $result_source

An accessor for the primary ResultSource object from which this ResultSet is derived.

result_class

Arguments: $result_class?
Return Value: $result_class

An accessor for the class to use when creating row objects. Defaults to result_source->result_class - which in most cases is the name of the "table" ("ResultSource" in DBIx::Class::Manual::Glossary) class.

Note that changing the result_class will also remove any components that were originally loaded in the source class via load_components in DBIx::Class::ResultSource. Any overloaded methods in the original source class will not run.

count

Arguments: $cond, \%attrs??
Return Value: $count

Performs an SQL COUNT with the same query as the resultset was built with to find the number of elements. Passing arguments is equivalent to $rs->search ($cond, \%attrs)->count

count_rs

Arguments: $cond, \%attrs??
Return Value: $count_rs

Same as count but returns a DBIx::Class::ResultSetColumn object. This can be very handy for subqueries:

  ->search( { amount => $some_rs->count_rs->as_query } )

As with regular resultsets the SQL query will be executed only after the resultset is accessed via next or all. That would return the same single value obtainable via count.

count_literal

Arguments: $sql_fragment, @bind_values
Return Value: $count

Counts the results in a literal query. Equivalent to calling search_literal with the passed arguments, then count.

all

Arguments: none
Return Value: @objects

Returns all elements in the resultset.

reset

Arguments: none
Return Value: $self

Resets the resultset's cursor, so you can iterate through the elements again. Implicitly resets the storage cursor, so a subsequent next will trigger another query.

first

Arguments: none
Return Value: $object | undef

Resets the resultset and returns an object for the first result (or undef if the resultset is empty).

update

Arguments: \%values
Return Value: $storage_rv

Sets the specified columns in the resultset to the supplied values in a single query. Note that this will not run any accessor/set_column/update triggers, nor will it update any row object instances derived from this resultset (this includes the contents of the resultset cache if any). See update_all if you need to execute any on-update triggers or cascades defined either by you or a result component (WHAT_IS_A_COMPONENT in DBIx::Class::Manual::Component).

The return value is a pass through of what the underlying storage backend returned, and may vary. See execute in DBI for the most common case.

CAVEAT

Note that update does not process/deflate any of the values passed in. This is unlike the corresponding update in DBIx::Class::Row. The user must ensure manually that any value passed to this method will stringify to something the RDBMS knows how to deal with. A notable example is the handling of DateTime objects, for more info see: Formatting_DateTime_objects_in_queries in DBIx::Class::Manual::Cookbook.

update_all

Arguments: \%values
Return Value: 1

Fetches all objects and updates them one at a time via update in DBIx::Class::Row. Note that update_all will run DBIC defined triggers, while update will not.

delete

Arguments: none
Return Value: $storage_rv

Deletes the rows matching this resultset in a single query. Note that this will not run any delete triggers, nor will it alter the in_storage status of any row object instances derived from this resultset (this includes the contents of the resultset cache if any). See delete_all if you need to execute any on-delete triggers or cascades defined either by you or a result component (WHAT_IS_A_COMPONENT in DBIx::Class::Manual::Component).

The return value is a pass through of what the underlying storage backend returned, and may vary. See execute in DBI for the most common case.

delete_all

Arguments: none
Return Value: 1

Fetches all objects and deletes them one at a time via delete in DBIx::Class::Row. Note that delete_all will run DBIC defined triggers, while delete will not.

populate

Arguments: \@data;

Accepts either an arrayref of hashrefs or alternatively an arrayref of arrayrefs. For the arrayref of hashrefs style each hashref should be a structure suitable for submitting to a $resultset->create(...) method.

In void context, insert_bulk in DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI is used to insert the data, as this is a faster method.

Otherwise, each set of data is inserted into the database using create in DBIx::Class::ResultSet, and the resulting objects are accumulated into an array. The array itself, or an array reference is returned depending on scalar or list context.

Example: Assuming an Artist Class that has many CDs Classes relating:

  my $Artist_rs = $schema->resultset("Artist");

  ## Void Context Example
  $Artist_rs->populate([
     { artistid => 4, name => 'Manufactured Crap', cds => [
        { title => 'My First CD', year => 2006 },
        { title => 'Yet More Tweeny-Pop crap', year => 2007 },
      ],
     },
     { artistid => 5, name => 'Angsty-Whiny Girl', cds => [
        { title => 'My parents sold me to a record company', year => 2005 },
        { title => 'Why Am I So Ugly?', year => 2006 },
        { title => 'I Got Surgery and am now Popular', year => 2007 }
      ],
     },
  ]);

  ## Array Context Example
  my ($ArtistOne, $ArtistTwo, $ArtistThree) = $Artist_rs->populate([
    { name => "Artist One"},
    { name => "Artist Two"},
    { name => "Artist Three", cds=> [
    { title => "First CD", year => 2007},
    { title => "Second CD", year => 2008},
  ]}
  ]);

  print $ArtistOne->name; ## response is 'Artist One'
  print $ArtistThree->cds->count ## reponse is '2'

For the arrayref of arrayrefs style, the first element should be a list of the fieldsnames to which the remaining elements are rows being inserted. For example:

  $Arstist_rs->populate([
    [qw/artistid name/],
    [100, 'A Formally Unknown Singer'],
    [101, 'A singer that jumped the shark two albums ago'],
    [102, 'An actually cool singer'],
  ]);

Please note an important effect on your data when choosing between void and wantarray context. Since void context goes straight to insert_bulk in DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI this will skip any component that is overriding insert. So if you are using something like DBIx-Class-UUIDColumns to create primary keys for you, you will find that your PKs are empty. In this case you will have to use the wantarray context in order to create those values.

pager

Arguments: none
Return Value: $pager

Return Value a Data::Page object for the current resultset. Only makes sense for queries with a page attribute.

To get the full count of entries for a paged resultset, call total_entries on the Data::Page object.

page

Arguments: $page_number
Return Value: $rs

Returns a resultset for the $page_number page of the resultset on which page is called, where each page contains a number of rows equal to the 'rows' attribute set on the resultset (10 by default).

new_result

Arguments: \%vals
Return Value: $rowobject

Creates a new row object in the resultset's result class and returns it. The row is not inserted into the database at this point, call insert in DBIx::Class::Row to do that. Calling in_storage in DBIx::Class::Row will tell you whether the row object has been inserted or not.

Passes the hashref of input on to new in DBIx::Class::Row.

as_query

Arguments: none
Return Value: \[ $sql, @bind ]

Returns the SQL query and bind vars associated with the invocant.

This is generally used as the RHS for a subquery.

find_or_new

Arguments: \%vals, \%attrs?
Return Value: $rowobject
  my $artist = $schema->resultset('Artist')->find_or_new(
    { artist => 'fred' }, { key => 'artists' });

  $cd->cd_to_producer->find_or_new({ producer => $producer },
                                   { key => 'primary });

Find an existing record from this resultset using find. if none exists, instantiate a new result object and return it. The object will not be saved into your storage until you call insert in DBIx::Class::Row on it.

You most likely want this method when looking for existing rows using a unique constraint that is not the primary key, or looking for related rows.

If you want objects to be saved immediately, use find_or_create instead.

Note: Make sure to read the documentation of find and understand the significance of the key attribute, as its lack may skew your search, and subsequently result in spurious new objects.

Note: Take care when using find_or_new with a table having columns with default values that you intend to be automatically supplied by the database (e.g. an auto_increment primary key column). In normal usage, the value of such columns should NOT be included at all in the call to find_or_new, even when set to undef.

create

Arguments: \%vals
Return Value: a DBIx::Class::Row $object

Attempt to create a single new row or a row with multiple related rows in the table represented by the resultset (and related tables). This will not check for duplicate rows before inserting, use find_or_create to do that.

To create one row for this resultset, pass a hashref of key/value pairs representing the columns of the table and the values you wish to store. If the appropriate relationships are set up, foreign key fields can also be passed an object representing the foreign row, and the value will be set to its primary key.

To create related objects, pass a hashref of related-object column values keyed on the relationship name. If the relationship is of type multi (has_many in DBIx::Class::Relationship) - pass an arrayref of hashrefs. The process will correctly identify columns holding foreign keys, and will transparently populate them from the keys of the corresponding relation. This can be applied recursively, and will work correctly for a structure with an arbitrary depth and width, as long as the relationships actually exists and the correct column data has been supplied.

Instead of hashrefs of plain related data (key/value pairs), you may also pass new or inserted objects. New objects (not inserted yet, see new), will be inserted into their appropriate tables.

Effectively a shortcut for ->new_result(\%vals)->insert.

Example of creating a new row.

  $person_rs->create({
    name=>"Some Person",
    email=>"somebody@someplace.com"
  });

Example of creating a new row and also creating rows in a related has_many or has_one resultset. Note Arrayref.

  $artist_rs->create(
     { artistid => 4, name => 'Manufactured Crap', cds => [
        { title => 'My First CD', year => 2006 },
        { title => 'Yet More Tweeny-Pop crap', year => 2007 },
      ],
     },
  );

Example of creating a new row and also creating a row in a related belongs_to resultset. Note Hashref.

  $cd_rs->create({
    title=>"Music for Silly Walks",
    year=>2000,
    artist => {
      name=>"Silly Musician",
    }
  });

WARNING

When subclassing ResultSet never attempt to override this method. Since it is a simple shortcut for $self->new_result($attrs)->insert, a lot of the internals simply never call it, so your override will be bypassed more often than not. Override either new or insert depending on how early in the create process you need to intervene.

find_or_create

Arguments: \%vals, \%attrs?
Return Value: $rowobject
  $cd->cd_to_producer->find_or_create({ producer => $producer },
                                      { key => 'primary' });

Tries to find a record based on its primary key or unique constraints; if none is found, creates one and returns that instead.

  my $cd = $schema->resultset('CD')->find_or_create({
    cdid   => 5,
    artist => 'Massive Attack',
    title  => 'Mezzanine',
    year   => 2005,
  });

Also takes an optional key attribute, to search by a specific key or unique constraint. For example:

  my $cd = $schema->resultset('CD')->find_or_create(
    {
      artist => 'Massive Attack',
      title  => 'Mezzanine',
    },
    { key => 'cd_artist_title' }
  );

Note: Make sure to read the documentation of find and understand the significance of the key attribute, as its lack may skew your search, and subsequently result in spurious row creation.

Note: Because find_or_create() reads from the database and then possibly inserts based on the result, this method is subject to a race condition. Another process could create a record in the table after the find has completed and before the create has started. To avoid this problem, use find_or_create() inside a transaction.

Note: Take care when using find_or_create with a table having columns with default values that you intend to be automatically supplied by the database (e.g. an auto_increment primary key column). In normal usage, the value of such columns should NOT be included at all in the call to find_or_create, even when set to undef.

See also find and update_or_create. For information on how to declare unique constraints, see add_unique_constraint in DBIx::Class::ResultSource.

update_or_create

Arguments: \%col_values, { key => $unique_constraint }?
Return Value: $row_object
  $resultset->update_or_create({ col => $val, ... });

Like find_or_create, but if a row is found it is immediately updated via $found_row->update (\%col_values).

Takes an optional key attribute to search on a specific unique constraint. For example:

  # In your application
  my $cd = $schema->resultset('CD')->update_or_create(
    {
      artist => 'Massive Attack',
      title  => 'Mezzanine',
      year   => 1998,
    },
    { key => 'cd_artist_title' }
  );

  $cd->cd_to_producer->update_or_create({
    producer => $producer,
    name => 'harry',
  }, {
    key => 'primary',
  });

Note: Make sure to read the documentation of find and understand the significance of the key attribute, as its lack may skew your search, and subsequently result in spurious row creation.

Note: Take care when using update_or_create with a table having columns with default values that you intend to be automatically supplied by the database (e.g. an auto_increment primary key column). In normal usage, the value of such columns should NOT be included at all in the call to update_or_create, even when set to undef.

See also find and find_or_create. For information on how to declare unique constraints, see add_unique_constraint in DBIx::Class::ResultSource.

update_or_new

Arguments: \%col_values, { key => $unique_constraint }?
Return Value: $rowobject
  $resultset->update_or_new({ col => $val, ... });

Like find_or_new but if a row is found it is immediately updated via $found_row->update (\%col_values).

For example:

  # In your application
  my $cd = $schema->resultset('CD')->update_or_new(
    {
      artist => 'Massive Attack',
      title  => 'Mezzanine',
      year   => 1998,
    },
    { key => 'cd_artist_title' }
  );

  if ($cd->in_storage) {
      # the cd was updated
  }
  else {
      # the cd is not yet in the database, let's insert it
      $cd->insert;
  }

Note: Make sure to read the documentation of find and understand the significance of the key attribute, as its lack may skew your search, and subsequently result in spurious new objects.

Note: Take care when using update_or_new with a table having columns with default values that you intend to be automatically supplied by the database (e.g. an auto_increment primary key column). In normal usage, the value of such columns should NOT be included at all in the call to update_or_new, even when set to undef.

See also find, find_or_create and find_or_new.

get_cache

Arguments: none
Return Value: \@cache_objects | undef

Gets the contents of the cache for the resultset, if the cache is set.

The cache is populated either by using the prefetch attribute to search or by calling set_cache.

set_cache

Arguments: \@cache_objects
Return Value: \@cache_objects

Sets the contents of the cache for the resultset. Expects an arrayref of objects of the same class as those produced by the resultset. Note that if the cache is set the resultset will return the cached objects rather than re-querying the database even if the cache attr is not set.

The contents of the cache can also be populated by using the prefetch attribute to search.

clear_cache

Arguments: none
Return Value: undef

Clears the cache for the resultset.

is_paged

Arguments: none
Return Value: true, if the resultset has been paginated

is_ordered

Arguments: none
Return Value: true, if the resultset has been ordered with order_by.

current_source_alias

Arguments: none
Return Value: $source_alias

Returns the current table alias for the result source this resultset is built on, that will be used in the SQL query. Usually it is me.

Currently the source alias that refers to the result set returned by a search/find family method depends on how you got to the resultset: it's me by default, but eg. search_related aliases it to the related result source name (and keeps me referring to the original result set). The long term goal is to make DBIx::Class always alias the current resultset as me (and make this method unnecessary).

Thus it's currently necessary to use this method in predefined queries (see Predefined searches in DBIx::Class::Manual::Cookbook) when referring to the source alias of the current result set:

  # in a result set class
  sub modified_by {
    my ($self, $user) = @_;

    my $me = $self->current_source_alias;

    return $self->search(
      "$me.modified" => $user->id,
    );
  }

as_subselect_rs

Arguments: none
Return Value: $resultset

Act as a barrier to SQL symbols. The resultset provided will be made into a "virtual view" by including it as a subquery within the from clause. From this point on, any joined tables are inaccessible to ->search on the resultset (as if it were simply where-filtered without joins). For example:

 my $rs = $schema->resultset('Bar')->search({'x.name' => 'abc'},{ join => 'x' });

 # 'x' now pollutes the query namespace

 # So the following works as expected
 my $ok_rs = $rs->search({'x.other' => 1});

 # But this doesn't: instead of finding a 'Bar' related to two x rows (abc and
 # def) we look for one row with contradictory terms and join in another table
 # (aliased 'x_2') which we never use
 my $broken_rs = $rs->search({'x.name' => 'def'});

 my $rs2 = $rs->as_subselect_rs;

 # doesn't work - 'x' is no longer accessible in $rs2, having been sealed away
 my $not_joined_rs = $rs2->search({'x.other' => 1});

 # works as expected: finds a 'table' row related to two x rows (abc and def)
 my $correctly_joined_rs = $rs2->search({'x.name' => 'def'});

Another example of when one might use this would be to select a subset of columns in a group by clause:

 my $rs = $schema->resultset('Bar')->search(undef, {
   group_by => [qw{ id foo_id baz_id }],
 })->as_subselect_rs->search(undef, {
   columns => [qw{ id foo_id }]
 });

In the above example normally columns would have to be equal to the group by, but because we isolated the group by into a subselect the above works.

throw_exception

See throw_exception in DBIx::Class::Schema for details.

ATTRIBUTES

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Attributes are used to refine a ResultSet in various ways when searching for data. They can be passed to any method which takes an \%attrs argument. See search, search_rs, find, count.

These are in no particular order:

order_by

Value: ( $order_by | \@order_by | \%order_by )

Which column(s) to order the results by.

[The full list of suitable values is documented in "ORDER BY CLAUSES" in SQL::Abstract; the following is a summary of common options.]

If a single column name, or an arrayref of names is supplied, the argument is passed through directly to SQL. The hashref syntax allows for connection-agnostic specification of ordering direction:

 For descending order:

  order_by => { -desc => [qw/col1 col2 col3/] }

 For explicit ascending order:

  order_by => { -asc => 'col' }

The old scalarref syntax (i.e. order_by => \'year DESC') is still supported, although you are strongly encouraged to use the hashref syntax as outlined above.

columns

Value: \@columns

Shortcut to request a particular set of columns to be retrieved. Each column spec may be a string (a table column name), or a hash (in which case the key is the as value, and the value is used as the select expression). Adds me. onto the start of any column without a . in it and sets select from that, then auto-populates as from select as normal. (You may also use the cols attribute, as in earlier versions of DBIC.)

Essentially columns does the same as select and as.

    columns => [ 'foo', { bar => 'baz' } ]

is the same as

    select => [qw/foo baz/],
    as => [qw/foo bar/]

+columns

Value: \@columns

Indicates additional columns to be selected from storage. Works the same as columns but adds columns to the selection. (You may also use the include_columns attribute, as in earlier versions of DBIC). For example:-

  $schema->resultset('CD')->search(undef, {
    '+columns' => ['artist.name'],
    join => ['artist']
  });

would return all CDs and include a 'name' column to the information passed to object inflation. Note that the 'artist' is the name of the column (or relationship) accessor, and 'name' is the name of the column accessor in the related table.

NOTE: You need to explicitly quote '+columns' when defining the attribute. Not doing so causes Perl to incorrectly interpret +columns as a bareword with a unary plus operator before it.

include_columns

Value: \@columns

Deprecated. Acts as a synonym for +columns for backward compatibility.

select

Value: \@select_columns

Indicates which columns should be selected from the storage. You can use column names, or in the case of RDBMS back ends, function or stored procedure names:

  $rs = $schema->resultset('Employee')->search(undef, {
    select => [
      'name',
      { count => 'employeeid' },
      { max => { length => 'name' }, -as => 'longest_name' }
    ]
  });

  # Equivalent SQL
  SELECT name, COUNT( employeeid ), MAX( LENGTH( name ) ) AS longest_name FROM employee

NOTE: You will almost always need a corresponding as attribute when you use select, to instruct DBIx::Class how to store the result of the column. Also note that the as attribute has nothing to do with the SQL-side 'AS' identifier aliasing. You can however alias a function, so you can use it in e.g. an ORDER BY clause. This is done via the -as select function attribute supplied as shown in the example above.

NOTE: You need to explicitly quote '+select'/'+as' when defining the attributes. Not doing so causes Perl to incorrectly interpret them as a bareword with a unary plus operator before it.

+select

Indicates additional columns to be selected from storage. Works the same as select but adds columns to the default selection, instead of specifying an explicit list.

+as

Indicates additional column names for those added via +select. See as.

as

Value: \@inflation_names

Indicates column names for object inflation. That is as indicates the slot name in which the column value will be stored within the Row object. The value will then be accessible via this identifier by the get_column method (or via the object accessor if one with the same name already exists) as shown below. The as attribute has nothing to do with the SQL-side AS. See select for details.

  $rs = $schema->resultset('Employee')->search(undef, {
    select => [
      'name',
      { count => 'employeeid' },
      { max => { length => 'name' }, -as => 'longest_name' }
    ],
    as => [qw/
      name
      employee_count
      max_name_length
    /],
  });

If the object against which the search is performed already has an accessor matching a column name specified in as, the value can be retrieved using the accessor as normal:

  my $name = $employee->name();

If on the other hand an accessor does not exist in the object, you need to use get_column instead:

  my $employee_count = $employee->get_column('employee_count');

You can create your own accessors if required - see DBIx::Class::Manual::Cookbook for details.

join

Value: ($rel_name | \@rel_names | \%rel_names)

Contains a list of relationships that should be joined for this query. For example:

  # Get CDs by Nine Inch Nails
  my $rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->search(
    { 'artist.name' => 'Nine Inch Nails' },
    { join => 'artist' }
  );

Can also contain a hash reference to refer to the other relation's relations. For example:

  package MyApp::Schema::Track;
  use base qw/DBIx::Class/;
  __PACKAGE__->table('track');
  __PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/trackid cd position title/);
  __PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('trackid');
  __PACKAGE__->belongs_to(cd => 'MyApp::Schema::CD');
  1;

  # In your application
  my $rs = $schema->resultset('Artist')->search(
    { 'track.title' => 'Teardrop' },
    {
      join     => { cd => 'track' },
      order_by => 'artist.name',
    }
  );

You need to use the relationship (not the table) name in conditions, because they are aliased as such. The current table is aliased as "me", so you need to use me.column_name in order to avoid ambiguity. For example:

  # Get CDs from 1984 with a 'Foo' track
  my $rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->search(
    {
      'me.year' => 1984,
      'tracks.name' => 'Foo'
    },
    { join => 'tracks' }
  );

If the same join is supplied twice, it will be aliased to <rel>_2 (and similarly for a third time). For e.g.

  my $rs = $schema->resultset('Artist')->search({
    'cds.title'   => 'Down to Earth',
    'cds_2.title' => 'Popular',
  }, {
    join => [ qw/cds cds/ ],
  });

will return a set of all artists that have both a cd with title 'Down to Earth' and a cd with title 'Popular'.

If you want to fetch related objects from other tables as well, see prefetch below.

For more help on using joins with search, see DBIx::Class::Manual::Joining.

prefetch

Value: ($rel_name | \@rel_names | \%rel_names)

Contains one or more relationships that should be fetched along with the main query (when they are accessed afterwards the data will already be available, without extra queries to the database). This is useful for when you know you will need the related objects, because it saves at least one query:

  my $rs = $schema->resultset('Tag')->search(
    undef,
    {
      prefetch => {
        cd => 'artist'
      }
    }
  );

The initial search results in SQL like the following:

  SELECT tag.*, cd.*, artist.* FROM tag
  JOIN cd ON tag.cd = cd.cdid
  JOIN artist ON cd.artist = artist.artistid

DBIx::Class has no need to go back to the database when we access the cd or artist relationships, which saves us two SQL statements in this case.

Simple prefetches will be joined automatically, so there is no need for a join attribute in the above search.

prefetch can be used with the any of the relationship types and multiple prefetches can be specified together. Below is a more complex example that prefetches a CD's artist, its liner notes (if present), the cover image, the tracks on that cd, and the guests on those tracks.

 # Assuming:
 My::Schema::CD->belongs_to( artist      => 'My::Schema::Artist'     );
 My::Schema::CD->might_have( liner_note  => 'My::Schema::LinerNotes' );
 My::Schema::CD->has_one(    cover_image => 'My::Schema::Artwork'    );
 My::Schema::CD->has_many(   tracks      => 'My::Schema::Track'      );

 My::Schema::Artist->belongs_to( record_label => 'My::Schema::RecordLabel' );

 My::Schema::Track->has_many( guests => 'My::Schema::Guest' );




 my $rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->search(
   undef,
   {
     prefetch => [
       { artist => 'record_label'},  # belongs_to => belongs_to
       'liner_note',                 # might_have
       'cover_image',                # has_one
       { tracks => 'guests' },       # has_many => has_many
     ]
   }
 );

This will produce SQL like the following:

 SELECT cd.*, artist.*, record_label.*, liner_note.*, cover_image.*,
        tracks.*, guests.*
   FROM cd me
   JOIN artist artist
     ON artist.artistid = me.artistid
   JOIN record_label record_label
     ON record_label.labelid = artist.labelid
   LEFT JOIN track tracks
     ON tracks.cdid = me.cdid
   LEFT JOIN guest guests
     ON guests.trackid = track.trackid
   LEFT JOIN liner_notes liner_note
     ON liner_note.cdid = me.cdid
   JOIN cd_artwork cover_image
     ON cover_image.cdid = me.cdid
 ORDER BY tracks.cd

Now the artist, record_label, liner_note, cover_image, tracks, and guests of the CD will all be available through the relationship accessors without the need for additional queries to the database.

However, there is one caveat to be observed: it can be dangerous to prefetch more than one has_many relationship on a given level. e.g.:

 my $rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->search(
   undef,
   {
     prefetch => [
       'tracks',                         # has_many
       { cd_to_producer => 'producer' }, # has_many => belongs_to (i.e. m2m)
     ]
   }
 );

In fact, DBIx::Class will emit the following warning:

 Prefetching multiple has_many rels tracks and cd_to_producer at top
 level will explode the number of row objects retrievable via ->next
 or ->all. Use at your own risk.

The collapser currently can't identify duplicate tuples for multiple has_many relationships and as a result the second has_many relation could contain redundant objects.

Using prefetch with join

prefetch implies a join with the equivalent argument, and is properly merged with any existing join specification. So the following:

  my $rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->search(
   {'record_label.name' => 'Music Product Ltd.'},
   {
     join     => {artist => 'record_label'},
     prefetch => 'artist',
   }
 );

... will work, searching on the record label's name, but only prefetching the artist.

Using prefetch with select / +select / as / +as

prefetch implies a +select/+as with the fields of the prefetched relations. So given:

  my $rs = $schema->resultset('CD')->search(
   undef,
   {
     select   => ['cd.title'],
     as       => ['cd_title'],
     prefetch => 'artist',
   }
 );

The select becomes: 'cd.title', 'artist.*' and the as becomes: 'cd_title', 'artist.*'.

CAVEATS

Prefetch does a lot of deep magic. As such, it may not behave exactly as you might expect.

page

Value: $page

Makes the resultset paged and specifies the page to retrieve. Effectively identical to creating a non-pages resultset and then calling ->page($page) on it.

If rows attribute is not specified it defaults to 10 rows per page.

When you have a paged resultset, count will only return the number of rows in the page. To get the total, use the pager and call total_entries on it.

rows

Value: $rows

Specifies the maximum number of rows for direct retrieval or the number of rows per page if the page attribute or method is used.

offset

Value: $offset

Specifies the (zero-based) row number for the first row to be returned, or the of the first row of the first page if paging is used.

group_by

Value: \@columns

A arrayref of columns to group by. Can include columns of joined tables.

  group_by => [qw/ column1 column2 ... /]

having

Value: $condition

HAVING is a select statement attribute that is applied between GROUP BY and ORDER BY. It is applied to the after the grouping calculations have been done.

  having => { 'count_employee' => { '>=', 100 } }

or with an in-place function in which case literal SQL is required:

  having => \[ 'count(employee) >= ?', [ count => 100 ] ]

distinct

Value: (0 | 1)

Set to 1 to group by all columns. If the resultset already has a group_by attribute, this setting is ignored and an appropriate warning is issued.

where

Adds to the WHERE clause.

  # only return rows WHERE deleted IS NULL for all searches
  __PACKAGE__->resultset_attributes({ where => { deleted => undef } }); )

Can be overridden by passing { where => undef } as an attribute to a resultset.

cache

Set to 1 to cache search results. This prevents extra SQL queries if you revisit rows in your ResultSet:

  my $resultset = $schema->resultset('Artist')->search( undef, { cache => 1 } );

  while( my $artist = $resultset->next ) {
    ... do stuff ...
  }

  $rs->first; # without cache, this would issue a query

By default, searches are not cached.

For more examples of using these attributes, see DBIx::Class::Manual::Cookbook.

for

Value: ( 'update' | 'shared' )

Set to 'update' for a SELECT ... FOR UPDATE or 'shared' for a SELECT ... FOR SHARED.


DBIx-Class documentation Contained in the DBIx-Class distribution.
package DBIx::Class::ResultSet;

use strict;
use warnings;
use base qw/DBIx::Class/;
use DBIx::Class::Carp;
use DBIx::Class::Exception;
use DBIx::Class::ResultSetColumn;
use Scalar::Util qw/blessed weaken/;
use Try::Tiny;

# not importing first() as it will clash with our own method
use List::Util ();

BEGIN {
  # De-duplication in _merge_attr() is disabled, but left in for reference
  # (the merger is used for other things that ought not to be de-duped)
  *__HM_DEDUP = sub () { 0 };
}

use namespace::clean;

use overload
        '0+'     => "count",
        'bool'   => "_bool",
        fallback => 1;

__PACKAGE__->mk_group_accessors('simple' => qw/_result_class result_source/);

sub new {
  my $class = shift;
  return $class->new_result(@_) if ref $class;

  my ($source, $attrs) = @_;
  $source = $source->resolve
    if $source->isa('DBIx::Class::ResultSourceHandle');
  $attrs = { %{$attrs||{}} };

  if ($attrs->{page}) {
    $attrs->{rows} ||= 10;
  }

  $attrs->{alias} ||= 'me';

  my $self = bless {
    result_source => $source,
    cond => $attrs->{where},
    pager => undef,
    attrs => $attrs,
  }, $class;

  # if there is a dark selector, this means we are already in a
  # chain and the cleanup/sanification was taken care of by
  # _search_rs already
  $self->_normalize_selection($attrs)
    unless $attrs->{_dark_selector};

  $self->result_class(
    $attrs->{result_class} || $source->result_class
  );

  $self;
}

sub search {
  my $self = shift;
  my $rs = $self->search_rs( @_ );

  if (wantarray) {
    return $rs->all;
  }
  elsif (defined wantarray) {
    return $rs;
  }
  else {
    # we can be called by a relationship helper, which in
    # turn may be called in void context due to some braindead
    # overload or whatever else the user decided to be clever
    # at this particular day. Thus limit the exception to
    # external code calls only
    $self->throw_exception ('->search is *not* a mutator, calling it in void context makes no sense')
      if (caller)[0] !~ /^\QDBIx::Class::/;

    return ();
  }
}

sub search_rs {
  my $self = shift;

  # Special-case handling for (undef, undef).
  if ( @_ == 2 && !defined $_[1] && !defined $_[0] ) {
    @_ = ();
  }

  my $call_attrs = {};
  if (@_ > 1) {
    if (ref $_[-1] eq 'HASH') {
      # copy for _normalize_selection
      $call_attrs = { %{ pop @_ } };
    }
    elsif (! defined $_[-1] ) {
      pop @_;   # search({}, undef)
    }
  }

  # see if we can keep the cache (no $rs changes)
  my $cache;
  my %safe = (alias => 1, cache => 1);
  if ( ! List::Util::first { !$safe{$_} } keys %$call_attrs and (
    ! defined $_[0]
      or
    ref $_[0] eq 'HASH' && ! keys %{$_[0]}
      or
    ref $_[0] eq 'ARRAY' && ! @{$_[0]}
  )) {
    $cache = $self->get_cache;
  }

  my $rsrc = $self->result_source;

  my $old_attrs = { %{$self->{attrs}} };
  my $old_having = delete $old_attrs->{having};
  my $old_where = delete $old_attrs->{where};

  my $new_attrs = { %$old_attrs };

  # take care of call attrs (only if anything is changing)
  if (keys %$call_attrs) {

    my @selector_attrs = qw/select as columns cols +select +as +columns include_columns/;

    # reset the current selector list if new selectors are supplied
    if (List::Util::first { exists $call_attrs->{$_} } qw/columns cols select as/) {
      delete @{$old_attrs}{(@selector_attrs, '_dark_selector')};
    }

    # Normalize the new selector list (operates on the passed-in attr structure)
    # Need to do it on every chain instead of only once on _resolved_attrs, in
    # order to allow detection of empty vs partial 'as'
    $call_attrs->{_dark_selector} = $old_attrs->{_dark_selector}
      if $old_attrs->{_dark_selector};
    $self->_normalize_selection ($call_attrs);

    # start with blind overwriting merge, exclude selector attrs
    $new_attrs = { %{$old_attrs}, %{$call_attrs} };
    delete @{$new_attrs}{@selector_attrs};

    for (@selector_attrs) {
      $new_attrs->{$_} = $self->_merge_attr($old_attrs->{$_}, $call_attrs->{$_})
        if ( exists $old_attrs->{$_} or exists $call_attrs->{$_} );
    }

    # older deprecated name, use only if {columns} is not there
    if (my $c = delete $new_attrs->{cols}) {
      if ($new_attrs->{columns}) {
        carp "Resultset specifies both the 'columns' and the legacy 'cols' attributes - ignoring 'cols'";
      }
      else {
        $new_attrs->{columns} = $c;
      }
    }


    # join/prefetch use their own crazy merging heuristics
    foreach my $key (qw/join prefetch/) {
      $new_attrs->{$key} = $self->_merge_joinpref_attr($old_attrs->{$key}, $call_attrs->{$key})
        if exists $call_attrs->{$key};
    }

    # stack binds together
    $new_attrs->{bind} = [ @{ $old_attrs->{bind} || [] }, @{ $call_attrs->{bind} || [] } ];
  }


  # rip apart the rest of @_, parse a condition
  my $call_cond = do {

    if (ref $_[0] eq 'HASH') {
      (keys %{$_[0]}) ? $_[0] : undef
    }
    elsif (@_ == 1) {
      $_[0]
    }
    elsif (@_ % 2) {
      $self->throw_exception('Odd number of arguments to search')
    }
    else {
      +{ @_ }
    }

  } if @_;

  if( @_ > 1 and ! $rsrc->result_class->isa('DBIx::Class::CDBICompat') ) {
    carp_unique 'search( %condition ) is deprecated, use search( \%condition ) instead';
  }

  for ($old_where, $call_cond) {
    if (defined $_) {
      $new_attrs->{where} = $self->_stack_cond (
        $_, $new_attrs->{where}
      );
    }
  }

  if (defined $old_having) {
    $new_attrs->{having} = $self->_stack_cond (
      $old_having, $new_attrs->{having}
    )
  }

  my $rs = (ref $self)->new($rsrc, $new_attrs);

  $rs->set_cache($cache) if ($cache);

  return $rs;
}

my $dark_sel_dumper;
sub _normalize_selection {
  my ($self, $attrs) = @_;

  # legacy syntax
  $attrs->{'+columns'} = $self->_merge_attr($attrs->{'+columns'}, delete $attrs->{include_columns})
    if exists $attrs->{include_columns};

  # columns are always placed first, however 

  # Keep the X vs +X separation until _resolved_attrs time - this allows to
  # delay the decision on whether to use a default select list ($rsrc->columns)
  # allowing stuff like the remove_columns helper to work
  #
  # select/as +select/+as pairs need special handling - the amount of select/as
  # elements in each pair does *not* have to be equal (think multicolumn
  # selectors like distinct(foo, bar) ). If the selector is bare (no 'as'
  # supplied at all) - try to infer the alias, either from the -as parameter
  # of the selector spec, or use the parameter whole if it looks like a column
  # name (ugly legacy heuristic). If all fails - leave the selector bare (which
  # is ok as well), but make sure no more additions to the 'as' chain take place
  for my $pref ('', '+') {

    my ($sel, $as) = map {
      my $key = "${pref}${_}";

      my $val = [ ref $attrs->{$key} eq 'ARRAY'
        ? @{$attrs->{$key}}
        : $attrs->{$key} || ()
      ];
      delete $attrs->{$key};
      $val;
    } qw/select as/;

    if (! @$as and ! @$sel ) {
      next;
    }
    elsif (@$as and ! @$sel) {
      $self->throw_exception(
        "Unable to handle ${pref}as specification (@$as) without a corresponding ${pref}select"
      );
    }
    elsif( ! @$as ) {
      # no as part supplied at all - try to deduce (unless explicit end of named selection is declared)
      # if any @$as has been supplied we assume the user knows what (s)he is doing
      # and blindly keep stacking up pieces
      unless ($attrs->{_dark_selector}) {
        SELECTOR:
        for (@$sel) {
          if ( ref $_ eq 'HASH' and exists $_->{-as} ) {
            push @$as, $_->{-as};
          }
          # assume any plain no-space, no-parenthesis string to be a column spec
          # FIXME - this is retarded but is necessary to support shit like 'count(foo)'
          elsif ( ! ref $_ and $_ =~ /^ [^\s\(\)]+ $/x) {
            push @$as, $_;
          }
          # if all else fails - raise a flag that no more aliasing will be allowed
          else {
            $attrs->{_dark_selector} = {
              plus_stage => $pref,
              string => ($dark_sel_dumper ||= do {
                  require Data::Dumper::Concise;
                  Data::Dumper::Concise::DumperObject()->Indent(0);
                })->Values([$_])->Dump
              ,
            };
            last SELECTOR;
          }
        }
      }
    }
    elsif (@$as < @$sel) {
      $self->throw_exception(
        "Unable to handle an ${pref}as specification (@$as) with less elements than the corresponding ${pref}select"
      );
    }
    elsif ($pref and $attrs->{_dark_selector}) {
      $self->throw_exception(
        "Unable to process named '+select', resultset contains an unnamed selector $attrs->{_dark_selector}{string}"
      );
    }


    # merge result
    $attrs->{"${pref}select"} = $self->_merge_attr($attrs->{"${pref}select"}, $sel);
    $attrs->{"${pref}as"} = $self->_merge_attr($attrs->{"${pref}as"}, $as);
  }
}

sub _stack_cond {
  my ($self, $left, $right) = @_;
  if (defined $left xor defined $right) {
    return defined $left ? $left : $right;
  }
  elsif (defined $left) {
    return { -and => [ map
      { ref $_ eq 'ARRAY' ? [ -or => $_ ] : $_ }
      ($left, $right)
    ]};
  }

  return undef;
}

sub search_literal {
  my ($self, $sql, @bind) = @_;
  my $attr;
  if ( @bind && ref($bind[-1]) eq 'HASH' ) {
    $attr = pop @bind;
  }
  return $self->search(\[ $sql, map [ __DUMMY__ => $_ ], @bind ], ($attr || () ));
}

sub find {
  my $self = shift;
  my $attrs = (@_ > 1 && ref $_[$#_] eq 'HASH' ? pop(@_) : {});

  my $rsrc = $self->result_source;

  # Parse out the condition from input
  my $call_cond;
  if (ref $_[0] eq 'HASH') {
    $call_cond = { %{$_[0]} };
  }
  else {
    my $constraint = exists $attrs->{key} ? $attrs->{key} : 'primary';
    my @c_cols = $rsrc->unique_constraint_columns($constraint);

    $self->throw_exception(
      "No constraint columns, maybe a malformed '$constraint' constraint?"
    ) unless @c_cols;

    $self->throw_exception (
      'find() expects either a column/value hashref, or a list of values '
    . "corresponding to the columns of the specified unique constraint '$constraint'"
    ) unless @c_cols == @_;

    $call_cond = {};
    @{$call_cond}{@c_cols} = @_;
  }

  my %related;
  for my $key (keys %$call_cond) {
    if (
      my $keyref = ref($call_cond->{$key})
        and
      my $relinfo = $rsrc->relationship_info($key)
    ) {
      my $val = delete $call_cond->{$key};

      next if $keyref eq 'ARRAY'; # has_many for multi_create

      my $rel_q = $rsrc->_resolve_condition(
        $relinfo->{cond}, $val, $key, $key
      );
      die "Can't handle complex relationship conditions in find" if ref($rel_q) ne 'HASH';
      @related{keys %$rel_q} = values %$rel_q;
    }
  }

  # relationship conditions take precedence (?)
  @{$call_cond}{keys %related} = values %related;

  my $alias = exists $attrs->{alias} ? $attrs->{alias} : $self->{attrs}{alias};
  my $final_cond;
  if (exists $attrs->{key}) {
    $final_cond = $self->_qualify_cond_columns (

      $self->_build_unique_cond (
        $attrs->{key},
        $call_cond,
      ),

      $alias,
    );
  }
  elsif ($self->{attrs}{accessor} and $self->{attrs}{accessor} eq 'single') {
    # This means that we got here after a merger of relationship conditions
    # in ::Relationship::Base::search_related (the row method), and furthermore
    # the relationship is of the 'single' type. This means that the condition
    # provided by the relationship (already attached to $self) is sufficient,
    # as there can be only one row in the database that would satisfy the
    # relationship
  }
  else {
    # no key was specified - fall down to heuristics mode:
    # run through all unique queries registered on the resultset, and
    # 'OR' all qualifying queries together
    my (@unique_queries, %seen_column_combinations);
    for my $c_name ($rsrc->unique_constraint_names) {
      next if $seen_column_combinations{
        join "\x00", sort $rsrc->unique_constraint_columns($c_name)
      }++;

      push @unique_queries, try {
        $self->_build_unique_cond ($c_name, $call_cond, 'croak_on_nulls')
      } || ();
    }

    $final_cond = @unique_queries
      ? [ map { $self->_qualify_cond_columns($_, $alias) } @unique_queries ]
      : $self->_non_unique_find_fallback ($call_cond, $attrs)
    ;
  }

  # Run the query, passing the result_class since it should propagate for find
  my $rs = $self->search ($final_cond, {result_class => $self->result_class, %$attrs});
  if (keys %{$rs->_resolved_attrs->{collapse}}) {
    my $row = $rs->next;
    carp "Query returned more than one row" if $rs->next;
    return $row;
  }
  else {
    return $rs->single;
  }
}

# This is a stop-gap method as agreed during the discussion on find() cleanup:
# http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/dbix-class/2010-October/009535.html
#
# It is invoked when find() is called in legacy-mode with insufficiently-unique
# condition. It is provided for overrides until a saner way forward is devised
#
# *NOTE* This is not a public method, and it's *GUARANTEED* to disappear down
# the road. Please adjust your tests accordingly to catch this situation early
# DBIx::Class::ResultSet->can('_non_unique_find_fallback') is reasonable
#
# The method will not be removed without an adequately complete replacement
# for strict-mode enforcement
sub _non_unique_find_fallback {
  my ($self, $cond, $attrs) = @_;

  return $self->_qualify_cond_columns(
    $cond,
    exists $attrs->{alias}
      ? $attrs->{alias}
      : $self->{attrs}{alias}
  );
}


sub _qualify_cond_columns {
  my ($self, $cond, $alias) = @_;

  my %aliased = %$cond;
  for (keys %aliased) {
    $aliased{"$alias.$_"} = delete $aliased{$_}
      if $_ !~ /\./;
  }

  return \%aliased;
}

sub _build_unique_cond {
  my ($self, $constraint_name, $extra_cond, $croak_on_null) = @_;

  my @c_cols = $self->result_source->unique_constraint_columns($constraint_name);

  # combination may fail if $self->{cond} is non-trivial
  my ($final_cond) = try {
    $self->_merge_with_rscond ($extra_cond)
  } catch {
    +{ %$extra_cond }
  };

  # trim out everything not in $columns
  $final_cond = { map {
    exists $final_cond->{$_}
      ? ( $_ => $final_cond->{$_} )
      : ()
  } @c_cols };

  if (my @missing = grep
    { ! ($croak_on_null ? defined $final_cond->{$_} : exists $final_cond->{$_}) }
    (@c_cols)
  ) {
    $self->throw_exception( sprintf ( "Unable to satisfy requested constraint '%s', no values for column(s): %s",
      $constraint_name,
      join (', ', map { "'$_'" } @missing),
    ) );
  }

  if (
    !$croak_on_null
      and
    !$ENV{DBIC_NULLABLE_KEY_NOWARN}
      and
    my @undefs = grep { ! defined $final_cond->{$_} } (keys %$final_cond)
  ) {
    carp_unique ( sprintf (
      "NULL/undef values supplied for requested unique constraint '%s' (NULL "
    . 'values in column(s): %s). This is almost certainly not what you wanted, '
    . 'though you can set DBIC_NULLABLE_KEY_NOWARN to disable this warning.',
      $constraint_name,
      join (', ', map { "'$_'" } @undefs),
    ));
  }

  return $final_cond;
}

sub search_related {
  return shift->related_resultset(shift)->search(@_);
}

sub search_related_rs {
  return shift->related_resultset(shift)->search_rs(@_);
}

sub cursor {
  my ($self) = @_;

  my $attrs = $self->_resolved_attrs_copy;

  return $self->{cursor}
    ||= $self->result_source->storage->select($attrs->{from}, $attrs->{select},
          $attrs->{where},$attrs);
}

sub single {
  my ($self, $where) = @_;
  if(@_ > 2) {
      $self->throw_exception('single() only takes search conditions, no attributes. You want ->search( $cond, $attrs )->single()');
  }

  my $attrs = $self->_resolved_attrs_copy;

  if (keys %{$attrs->{collapse}}) {
    $self->throw_exception(
      'single() can not be used on resultsets prefetching has_many. Use find( \%cond ) or next() instead'
    );
  }

  if ($where) {
    if (defined $attrs->{where}) {
      $attrs->{where} = {
        '-and' =>
            [ map { ref $_ eq 'ARRAY' ? [ -or => $_ ] : $_ }
               $where, delete $attrs->{where} ]
      };
    } else {
      $attrs->{where} = $where;
    }
  }

  my @data = $self->result_source->storage->select_single(
    $attrs->{from}, $attrs->{select},
    $attrs->{where}, $attrs
  );

  return (@data ? ($self->_construct_object(@data))[0] : undef);
}


# _collapse_query
#
# Recursively collapse the query, accumulating values for each column.

sub _collapse_query {
  my ($self, $query, $collapsed) = @_;

  $collapsed ||= {};

  if (ref $query eq 'ARRAY') {
    foreach my $subquery (@$query) {
      next unless ref $subquery;  # -or
      $collapsed = $self->_collapse_query($subquery, $collapsed);
    }
  }
  elsif (ref $query eq 'HASH') {
    if (keys %$query and (keys %$query)[0] eq '-and') {
      foreach my $subquery (@{$query->{-and}}) {
        $collapsed = $self->_collapse_query($subquery, $collapsed);
      }
    }
    else {
      foreach my $col (keys %$query) {
        my $value = $query->{$col};
        $collapsed->{$col}{$value}++;
      }
    }
  }

  return $collapsed;
}

sub get_column {
  my ($self, $column) = @_;
  my $new = DBIx::Class::ResultSetColumn->new($self, $column);
  return $new;
}

sub search_like {
  my $class = shift;
  carp_unique (
    'search_like() is deprecated and will be removed in DBIC version 0.09.'
   .' Instead use ->search({ x => { -like => "y%" } })'
   .' (note the outer pair of {}s - they are important!)'
  );
  my $attrs = (@_ > 1 && ref $_[$#_] eq 'HASH' ? pop(@_) : {});
  my $query = ref $_[0] eq 'HASH' ? { %{shift()} }: {@_};
  $query->{$_} = { 'like' => $query->{$_} } for keys %$query;
  return $class->search($query, { %$attrs });
}

sub slice {
  my ($self, $min, $max) = @_;
  my $attrs = {}; # = { %{ $self->{attrs} || {} } };
  $attrs->{offset} = $self->{attrs}{offset} || 0;
  $attrs->{offset} += $min;
  $attrs->{rows} = ($max ? ($max - $min + 1) : 1);
  return $self->search(undef, $attrs);
  #my $slice = (ref $self)->new($self->result_source, $attrs);
  #return (wantarray ? $slice->all : $slice);
}

sub next {
  my ($self) = @_;
  if (my $cache = $self->get_cache) {
    $self->{all_cache_position} ||= 0;
    return $cache->[$self->{all_cache_position}++];
  }
  if ($self->{attrs}{cache}) {
    delete $self->{pager};
    $self->{all_cache_position} = 1;
    return ($self->all)[0];
  }
  if ($self->{stashed_objects}) {
    my $obj = shift(@{$self->{stashed_objects}});
    delete $self->{stashed_objects} unless @{$self->{stashed_objects}};
    return $obj;
  }
  my @row = (
    exists $self->{stashed_row}
      ? @{delete $self->{stashed_row}}
      : $self->cursor->next
  );
  return undef unless (@row);
  my ($row, @more) = $self->_construct_object(@row);
  $self->{stashed_objects} = \@more if @more;
  return $row;
}

sub _construct_object {
  my ($self, @row) = @_;

  my $info = $self->_collapse_result($self->{_attrs}{as}, \@row)
    or return ();
  my @new = $self->result_class->inflate_result($self->result_source, @$info);
  @new = $self->{_attrs}{record_filter}->(@new)
    if exists $self->{_attrs}{record_filter};
  return @new;
}

sub _collapse_result {
  my ($self, $as_proto, $row) = @_;

  my @copy = @$row;

  # 'foo'         => [ undef, 'foo' ]
  # 'foo.bar'     => [ 'foo', 'bar' ]
  # 'foo.bar.baz' => [ 'foo.bar', 'baz' ]

  my @construct_as = map { [ (/^(?:(.*)\.)?([^.]+)$/) ] } @$as_proto;

  my %collapse = %{$self->{_attrs}{collapse}||{}};

  my @pri_index;

  # if we're doing collapsing (has_many prefetch) we need to grab records
  # until the PK changes, so fill @pri_index. if not, we leave it empty so
  # we know we don't have to bother.

  # the reason for not using the collapse stuff directly is because if you
  # had for e.g. two artists in a row with no cds, the collapse info for
  # both would be NULL (undef) so you'd lose the second artist

  # store just the index so we can check the array positions from the row
  # without having to contruct the full hash

  if (keys %collapse) {
    my %pri = map { ($_ => 1) } $self->result_source->_pri_cols;
    foreach my $i (0 .. $#construct_as) {
      next if defined($construct_as[$i][0]); # only self table
      if (delete $pri{$construct_as[$i][1]}) {
        push(@pri_index, $i);
      }
      last unless keys %pri; # short circuit (Johnny Five Is Alive!)
    }
  }

  # no need to do an if, it'll be empty if @pri_index is empty anyway

  my %pri_vals = map { ($_ => $copy[$_]) } @pri_index;

  my @const_rows;

  do { # no need to check anything at the front, we always want the first row

    my %const;

    foreach my $this_as (@construct_as) {
      $const{$this_as->[0]||''}{$this_as->[1]} = shift(@copy);
    }

    push(@const_rows, \%const);

  } until ( # no pri_index => no collapse => drop straight out
      !@pri_index
    or
      do { # get another row, stash it, drop out if different PK

        @copy = $self->cursor->next;
        $self->{stashed_row} = \@copy;

        # last thing in do block, counts as true if anything doesn't match

        # check xor defined first for NULL vs. NOT NULL then if one is
        # defined the other must be so check string equality

        grep {
          (defined $pri_vals{$_} ^ defined $copy[$_])
          || (defined $pri_vals{$_} && ($pri_vals{$_} ne $copy[$_]))
        } @pri_index;
      }
  );

  my $alias = $self->{attrs}{alias};
  my $info = [];

  my %collapse_pos;

  my @const_keys;

  foreach my $const (@const_rows) {
    scalar @const_keys or do {
      @const_keys = sort { length($a) <=> length($b) } keys %$const;
    };
    foreach my $key (@const_keys) {
      if (length $key) {
        my $target = $info;
        my @parts = split(/\./, $key);
        my $cur = '';
        my $data = $const->{$key};
        foreach my $p (@parts) {
          $target = $target->[1]->{$p} ||= [];
          $cur .= ".${p}";
          if ($cur eq ".${key}" && (my @ckey = @{$collapse{$cur}||[]})) {
            # collapsing at this point and on final part
            my $pos = $collapse_pos{$cur};
            CK: foreach my $ck (@ckey) {
              if (!defined $pos->{$ck} || $pos->{$ck} ne $data->{$ck}) {
                $collapse_pos{$cur} = $data;
                delete @collapse_pos{ # clear all positioning for sub-entries
                  grep { m/^\Q${cur}.\E/ } keys %collapse_pos
                };
                push(@$target, []);
                last CK;
              }
            }
          }
          if (exists $collapse{$cur}) {
            $target = $target->[-1];
          }
        }
        $target->[0] = $data;
      } else {
        $info->[0] = $const->{$key};
      }
    }
  }

  return $info;
}

sub result_class {
  my ($self, $result_class) = @_;
  if ($result_class) {
    unless (ref $result_class) { # don't fire this for an object
      $self->ensure_class_loaded($result_class);
    }
    $self->_result_class($result_class);
    # THIS LINE WOULD BE A BUG - this accessor specifically exists to
    # permit the user to set result class on one result set only; it only
    # chains if provided to search()
    #$self->{attrs}{result_class} = $result_class if ref $self;
  }
  $self->_result_class;
}

sub count {
  my $self = shift;
  return $self->search(@_)->count if @_ and defined $_[0];
  return scalar @{ $self->get_cache } if $self->get_cache;

  my $attrs = $self->_resolved_attrs_copy;

  # this is a little optimization - it is faster to do the limit
  # adjustments in software, instead of a subquery
  my $rows = delete $attrs->{rows};
  my $offset = delete $attrs->{offset};

  my $crs;
  if ($self->_has_resolved_attr (qw/collapse group_by/)) {
    $crs = $self->_count_subq_rs ($attrs);
  }
  else {
    $crs = $self->_count_rs ($attrs);
  }
  my $count = $crs->next;

  $count -= $offset if $offset;
  $count = $rows if $rows and $rows < $count;
  $count = 0 if ($count < 0);

  return $count;
}

sub count_rs {
  my $self = shift;
  return $self->search(@_)->count_rs if @_;

  # this may look like a lack of abstraction (count() does about the same)
  # but in fact an _rs *must* use a subquery for the limits, as the
  # software based limiting can not be ported if this $rs is to be used
  # in a subquery itself (i.e. ->as_query)
  if ($self->_has_resolved_attr (qw/collapse group_by offset rows/)) {
    return $self->_count_subq_rs;
  }
  else {
    return $self->_count_rs;
  }
}

#
# returns a ResultSetColumn object tied to the count query
#
sub _count_rs {
  my ($self, $attrs) = @_;

  my $rsrc = $self->result_source;
  $attrs ||= $self->_resolved_attrs;

  my $tmp_attrs = { %$attrs };
  # take off any limits, record_filter is cdbi, and no point of ordering nor locking a count
  delete @{$tmp_attrs}{qw/rows offset order_by record_filter for/};

  # overwrite the selector (supplied by the storage)
  $tmp_attrs->{select} = $rsrc->storage->_count_select ($rsrc, $attrs);
  $tmp_attrs->{as} = 'count';
  delete @{$tmp_attrs}{qw/columns/};

  my $tmp_rs = $rsrc->resultset_class->new($rsrc, $tmp_attrs)->get_column ('count');

  return $tmp_rs;
}

#
# same as above but uses a subquery
#
sub _count_subq_rs {
  my ($self, $attrs) = @_;

  my $rsrc = $self->result_source;
  $attrs ||= $self->_resolved_attrs;

  my $sub_attrs = { %$attrs };
  # extra selectors do not go in the subquery and there is no point of ordering it, nor locking it
  delete @{$sub_attrs}{qw/collapse columns as select _prefetch_selector_range order_by for/};

  # if we multi-prefetch we group_by primary keys only as this is what we would
  # get out of the rs via ->next/->all. We *DO WANT* to clobber old group_by regardless
  if ( keys %{$attrs->{collapse}}  ) {
    $sub_attrs->{group_by} = [ map { "$attrs->{alias}.$_" } ($rsrc->_pri_cols) ]
  }

  # Calculate subquery selector
  if (my $g = $sub_attrs->{group_by}) {

    my $sql_maker = $rsrc->storage->sql_maker;

    # necessary as the group_by may refer to aliased functions
    my $sel_index;
    for my $sel (@{$attrs->{select}}) {
      $sel_index->{$sel->{-as}} = $sel
        if (ref $sel eq 'HASH' and $sel->{-as});
    }

    # anything from the original select mentioned on the group-by needs to make it to the inner selector
    # also look for named aggregates referred in the having clause
    # having often contains scalarrefs - thus parse it out entirely
    my @parts = @$g;
    if ($attrs->{having}) {
      local $sql_maker->{having_bind};
      local $sql_maker->{quote_char} = $sql_maker->{quote_char};
      local $sql_maker->{name_sep} = $sql_maker->{name_sep};
      unless (defined $sql_maker->{quote_char} and length $sql_maker->{quote_char}) {
        $sql_maker->{quote_char} = [ "\x00", "\xFF" ];
        # if we don't unset it we screw up retarded but unfortunately working
        # 'MAX(foo.bar)' => { '>', 3 }
        $sql_maker->{name_sep} = '';
      }

      my ($lquote, $rquote, $sep) = map { quotemeta $_ } ($sql_maker->_quote_chars, $sql_maker->name_sep);

      my $sql = $sql_maker->_parse_rs_attrs ({ having => $attrs->{having} });

      # search for both a proper quoted qualified string, for a naive unquoted scalarref
      # and if all fails for an utterly naive quoted scalar-with-function
      while ($sql =~ /
                $rquote $sep $lquote (.+?) $rquote
                    |
                [\s,] \w+ \. (\w+) [\s,]
                    |
                [\s,] $lquote (.+?) $rquote [\s,]
            /gx) {
        push @parts, ($1 || $2 || $3);  # one of them matched if we got here
      }
    }

    for (@parts) {
      my $colpiece = $sel_index->{$_} || $_;

      # unqualify join-based group_by's. Arcane but possible query
      # also horrible horrible hack to alias a column (not a func.)
      # (probably need to introduce SQLA syntax)
      if ($colpiece =~ /\./ && $colpiece !~ /^$attrs->{alias}\./) {
        my $as = $colpiece;
        $as =~ s/\./__/;
        $colpiece = \ sprintf ('%s AS %s', map { $sql_maker->_quote ($_) } ($colpiece, $as) );
      }
      push @{$sub_attrs->{select}}, $colpiece;
    }
  }
  else {
    my @pcols = map { "$attrs->{alias}.$_" } ($rsrc->primary_columns);
    $sub_attrs->{select} = @pcols ? \@pcols : [ 1 ];
  }

  return $rsrc->resultset_class
               ->new ($rsrc, $sub_attrs)
                ->as_subselect_rs
                 ->search ({}, { columns => { count => $rsrc->storage->_count_select ($rsrc, $attrs) } })
                  ->get_column ('count');
}

sub _bool {
  return 1;
}

sub count_literal { shift->search_literal(@_)->count; }

sub all {
  my $self = shift;
  if(@_) {
      $self->throw_exception("all() doesn't take any arguments, you probably wanted ->search(...)->all()");
  }

  return @{ $self->get_cache } if $self->get_cache;

  my @obj;

  if (keys %{$self->_resolved_attrs->{collapse}}) {
    # Using $self->cursor->all is really just an optimisation.
    # If we're collapsing has_many prefetches it probably makes
    # very little difference, and this is cleaner than hacking
    # _construct_object to survive the approach
    $self->cursor->reset;
    my @row = $self->cursor->next;
    while (@row) {
      push(@obj, $self->_construct_object(@row));
      @row = (exists $self->{stashed_row}
               ? @{delete $self->{stashed_row}}
               : $self->cursor->next);
    }
  } else {
    @obj = map { $self->_construct_object(@$_) } $self->cursor->all;
  }

  $self->set_cache(\@obj) if $self->{attrs}{cache};

  return @obj;
}

sub reset {
  my ($self) = @_;
  delete $self->{_attrs} if exists $self->{_attrs};
  $self->{all_cache_position} = 0;
  $self->cursor->reset;
  return $self;
}

sub first {
  return $_[0]->reset->next;
}


# _rs_update_delete
#
# Determines whether and what type of subquery is required for the $rs operation.
# If grouping is necessary either supplies its own, or verifies the current one
# After all is done delegates to the proper storage method.

sub _rs_update_delete {
  my ($self, $op, $values) = @_;

  my $rsrc = $self->result_source;

  my $needs_group_by_subq = $self->_has_resolved_attr (qw/collapse group_by -join/);
  my $needs_subq = $needs_group_by_subq || $self->_has_resolved_attr(qw/rows offset/);

  if ($needs_group_by_subq or $needs_subq) {

    # make a new $rs selecting only the PKs (that's all we really need)
    my $attrs = $self->_resolved_attrs_copy;


    delete $attrs->{$_} for qw/collapse _collapse_order_by select _prefetch_selector_range as/;
    $attrs->{columns} = [ map { "$attrs->{alias}.$_" } ($self->result_source->_pri_cols) ];

    if ($needs_group_by_subq) {
      # make sure no group_by was supplied, or if there is one - make sure it matches
      # the columns compiled above perfectly. Anything else can not be sanely executed
      # on most databases so croak right then and there

      if (my $g = $attrs->{group_by}) {
        my @current_group_by = map
          { $_ =~ /\./ ? $_ : "$attrs->{alias}.$_" }
          @$g
        ;

        if (
          join ("\x00", sort @current_group_by)
            ne
          join ("\x00", sort @{$attrs->{columns}} )
        ) {
          $self->throw_exception (
            "You have just attempted a $op operation on a resultset which does group_by"
            . ' on columns other than the primary keys, while DBIC internally needs to retrieve'
            . ' the primary keys in a subselect. All sane RDBMS engines do not support this'
            . ' kind of queries. Please retry the operation with a modified group_by or'
            . ' without using one at all.'
          );
        }
      }
      else {
        $attrs->{group_by} = $attrs->{columns};
      }
    }

    my $subrs = (ref $self)->new($rsrc, $attrs);
    return $self->result_source->storage->_subq_update_delete($subrs, $op, $values);
  }
  else {
    # Most databases do not allow aliasing of tables in UPDATE/DELETE. Thus
    # a condition containing 'me' or other table prefixes will not work
    # at all. What this code tries to do (badly) is to generate a condition
    # with the qualifiers removed, by exploiting the quote mechanism of sqla
    #
    # this is atrocious and should be replaced by normal sqla introspection
    # one sunny day
    my ($sql, @bind) = do {
      my $sqla = $rsrc->storage->sql_maker;
      local $sqla->{_dequalify_idents} = 1;
      $sqla->_recurse_where($self->{cond});
    } if $self->{cond};

    return $rsrc->storage->$op(
      $rsrc,
      $op eq 'update' ? $values : (),
      $self->{cond} ? \[$sql, @bind] : (),
    );
  }
}

sub update {
  my ($self, $values) = @_;
  $self->throw_exception('Values for update must be a hash')
    unless ref $values eq 'HASH';

  return $self->_rs_update_delete ('update', $values);
}

sub update_all {
  my ($self, $values) = @_;
  $self->throw_exception('Values for update_all must be a hash')
    unless ref $values eq 'HASH';

  my $guard = $self->result_source->schema->txn_scope_guard;
  $_->update($values) for $self->all;
  $guard->commit;
  return 1;
}

sub delete {
  my $self = shift;
  $self->throw_exception('delete does not accept any arguments')
    if @_;

  return $self->_rs_update_delete ('delete');
}

sub delete_all {
  my $self = shift;
  $self->throw_exception('delete_all does not accept any arguments')
    if @_;

  my $guard = $self->result_source->schema->txn_scope_guard;
  $_->delete for $self->all;
  $guard->commit;
  return 1;
}

sub populate {
  my $self = shift;

  # cruft placed in standalone method
  my $data = $self->_normalize_populate_args(@_);

  if(defined wantarray) {
    my @created;
    foreach my $item (@$data) {
      push(@created, $self->create($item));
    }
    return wantarray ? @created : \@created;
  } 
  else {
    my $first = $data->[0];

    # if a column is a registered relationship, and is a non-blessed hash/array, consider
    # it relationship data
    my (@rels, @columns);
    my $rsrc = $self->result_source;
    my $rels = { map { $_ => $rsrc->relationship_info($_) } $rsrc->relationships };
    for (keys %$first) {
      my $ref = ref $first->{$_};
      $rels->{$_} && ($ref eq 'ARRAY' or $ref eq 'HASH')
        ? push @rels, $_
        : push @columns, $_
      ;
    }

    my @pks = $rsrc->primary_columns;

    ## do the belongs_to relationships
    foreach my $index (0..$#$data) {

      # delegate to create() for any dataset without primary keys with specified relationships
      if (grep { !defined $data->[$index]->{$_} } @pks ) {
        for my $r (@rels) {
          if (grep { ref $data->[$index]{$r} eq $_ } qw/HASH ARRAY/) {  # a related set must be a HASH or AoH
            my @ret = $self->populate($data);
            return;
          }
        }
      }

      foreach my $rel (@rels) {
        next unless ref $data->[$index]->{$rel} eq "HASH";
        my $result = $self->related_resultset($rel)->create($data->[$index]->{$rel});
        my ($reverse_relname, $reverse_relinfo) = %{$rsrc->reverse_relationship_info($rel)};
        my $related = $result->result_source->_resolve_condition(
          $reverse_relinfo->{cond},
          $self,
          $result,
          $rel,
        );

        delete $data->[$index]->{$rel};
        $data->[$index] = {%{$data->[$index]}, %$related};

        push @columns, keys %$related if $index == 0;
      }
    }

    ## inherit the data locked in the conditions of the resultset
    my ($rs_data) = $self->_merge_with_rscond({});
    delete @{$rs_data}{@columns};
    my @inherit_cols = keys %$rs_data;
    my @inherit_data = values %$rs_data;

    ## do bulk insert on current row
    $rsrc->storage->insert_bulk(
      $rsrc,
      [@columns, @inherit_cols],
      [ map { [ @$_{@columns}, @inherit_data ] } @$data ],
    );

    ## do the has_many relationships
    foreach my $item (@$data) {

      my $main_row;

      foreach my $rel (@rels) {
        next unless ref $item->{$rel} eq "ARRAY" && @{ $item->{$rel} };

        $main_row ||= $self->new_result({map { $_ => $item->{$_} } @pks});

        my $child = $main_row->$rel;

        my $related = $child->result_source->_resolve_condition(
          $rels->{$rel}{cond},
          $child,
          $main_row,
          $rel,
        );

        my @rows_to_add = ref $item->{$rel} eq 'ARRAY' ? @{$item->{$rel}} : ($item->{$rel});
        my @populate = map { {%$_, %$related} } @rows_to_add;

        $child->populate( \@populate );
      }
    }
  }
}


# populate() argumnets went over several incarnations
# What we ultimately support is AoH
sub _normalize_populate_args {
  my ($self, $arg) = @_;

  if (ref $arg eq 'ARRAY') {
    if (ref $arg->[0] eq 'HASH') {
      return $arg;
    }
    elsif (ref $arg->[0] eq 'ARRAY') {
      my @ret;
      my @colnames = @{$arg->[0]};
      foreach my $values (@{$arg}[1 .. $#$arg]) {
        push @ret, { map { $colnames[$_] => $values->[$_] } (0 .. $#colnames) };
      }
      return \@ret;
    }
  }

  $self->throw_exception('Populate expects an arrayref of hashrefs or arrayref of arrayrefs');
}

# make a wizard good for both a scalar and a hashref
my $mk_lazy_count_wizard = sub {
  require Variable::Magic;

  my $stash = { total_rs => shift };
  my $slot = shift; # only used by the hashref magic

  my $magic = Variable::Magic::wizard (
    data => sub { $stash },

    (!$slot)
    ? (
      # the scalar magic
      get => sub {
        # set value lazily, and dispell for good
        ${$_[0]} = $_[1]{total_rs}->count;
        Variable::Magic::dispell (${$_[0]}, $_[1]{magic_selfref});
        return 1;
      },
      set => sub {
        # an explicit set implies dispell as well
        # the unless() is to work around "fun and giggles" below
        Variable::Magic::dispell (${$_[0]}, $_[1]{magic_selfref})
          unless (caller(2))[3] eq 'DBIx::Class::ResultSet::pager';
        return 1;
      },
    )
    : (
      # the uvar magic
      fetch => sub {
        if ($_[2] eq $slot and !$_[1]{inactive}) {
          my $cnt = $_[1]{total_rs}->count;
          $_[0]->{$slot} = $cnt;

          # attempting to dispell in a fetch handle (works in store), seems
          # to invariable segfault on 5.10, 5.12, 5.13 :(
          # so use an inactivator instead
          #Variable::Magic::dispell (%{$_[0]}, $_[1]{magic_selfref});
          $_[1]{inactive}++;
        }
        return 1;
      },
      store => sub {
        if (! $_[1]{inactive} and $_[2] eq $slot) {
          #Variable::Magic::dispell (%{$_[0]}, $_[1]{magic_selfref});
          $_[1]{inactive}++
            unless (caller(2))[3] eq 'DBIx::Class::ResultSet::pager';
        }
        return 1;
      },
    ),
  );

  $stash->{magic_selfref} = $magic;
  weaken ($stash->{magic_selfref}); # this fails on 5.8.1

  return $magic;
};

# the tie class for 5.8.1
{
  package # hide from pause
    DBIx::Class::__DBIC_LAZY_RS_COUNT__;
  use base qw/Tie::Hash/;

  sub FIRSTKEY { my $dummy = scalar keys %{$_[0]{data}}; each %{$_[0]{data}} }
  sub NEXTKEY  { each %{$_[0]{data}} }
  sub EXISTS   { exists $_[0]{data}{$_[1]} }
  sub DELETE   { delete $_[0]{data}{$_[1]} }
  sub CLEAR    { %{$_[0]{data}} = () }
  sub SCALAR   { scalar %{$_[0]{data}} }

  sub TIEHASH {
    $_[1]{data} = {%{$_[1]{selfref}}};
    %{$_[1]{selfref}} = ();
    Scalar::Util::weaken ($_[1]{selfref});
    return bless ($_[1], $_[0]);
  };

  sub FETCH {
    if ($_[1] eq $_[0]{slot}) {
      my $cnt = $_[0]{data}{$_[1]} = $_[0]{total_rs}->count;
      untie %{$_[0]{selfref}};
      %{$_[0]{selfref}} = %{$_[0]{data}};
      return $cnt;
    }
    else {
      $_[0]{data}{$_[1]};
    }
  }

  sub STORE {
    $_[0]{data}{$_[1]} = $_[2];
    if ($_[1] eq $_[0]{slot}) {
      untie %{$_[0]{selfref}};
      %{$_[0]{selfref}} = %{$_[0]{data}};
    }
    $_[2];
  }
}

sub pager {
  my ($self) = @_;

  return $self->{pager} if $self->{pager};

  my $attrs = $self->{attrs};
  if (!defined $attrs->{page}) {
    $self->throw_exception("Can't create pager for non-paged rs");
  }
  elsif ($attrs->{page} <= 0) {
    $self->throw_exception('Invalid page number (page-numbers are 1-based)');
  }
  $attrs->{rows} ||= 10;

  # throw away the paging flags and re-run the count (possibly
  # with a subselect) to get the real total count
  my $count_attrs = { %$attrs };
  delete $count_attrs->{$_} for qw/rows offset page pager/;
  my $total_rs = (ref $self)->new($self->result_source, $count_attrs);


### the following may seem awkward and dirty, but it's a thought-experiment
### necessary for future development of DBIx::DS. Do *NOT* change this code
### before talking to ribasushi/mst

  require Data::Page;
  my $pager = Data::Page->new(
    0,  #start with an empty set
    $attrs->{rows},
    $self->{attrs}{page},
  );

  my $data_slot = 'total_entries';

  # Since we are interested in a cached value (once it's set - it's set), every
  # technique will detach from the magic-host once the time comes to fire the
  # ->count (or in the segfaulting case of >= 5.10 it will deactivate itself)

  if ($] < 5.008003) {
    # 5.8.1 throws 'Modification of a read-only value attempted' when one tries
    # to weakref the magic container :(
    # tested on 5.8.1
    tie (%$pager, 'DBIx::Class::__DBIC_LAZY_RS_COUNT__',
      { slot => $data_slot, total_rs => $total_rs, selfref => $pager }
    );
  }
  elsif ($] < 5.010) {
    # We can use magic on the hash value slot. It's interesting that the magic is
    # attached to the hash-slot, and does *not* stop working once I do the dummy
    # assignments after the cast()
    # tested on 5.8.3 and 5.8.9
    my $magic = $mk_lazy_count_wizard->($total_rs);
    Variable::Magic::cast ( $pager->{$data_slot}, $magic );

    # this is for fun and giggles
    $pager->{$data_slot} = -1;
    $pager->{$data_slot} = 0;

    # this does not work for scalars, but works with
    # uvar magic below
    #my %vals = %$pager;
    #%$pager = ();
    #%{$pager} = %vals;
  }
  else {
    # And the uvar magic
    # works on 5.10.1, 5.12.1 and 5.13.4 in its current form,
    # however see the wizard maker for more notes
    my $magic = $mk_lazy_count_wizard->($total_rs, $data_slot);
    Variable::Magic::cast ( %$pager, $magic );

    # still works
    $pager->{$data_slot} = -1;
    $pager->{$data_slot} = 0;

    # this now works
    my %vals = %$pager;
    %$pager = ();
    %{$pager} = %vals;
  }

  return $self->{pager} = $pager;
}

sub page {
  my ($self, $page) = @_;
  return (ref $self)->new($self->result_source, { %{$self->{attrs}}, page => $page });
}

sub new_result {
  my ($self, $values) = @_;
  $self->throw_exception( "new_result needs a hash" )
    unless (ref $values eq 'HASH');

  my ($merged_cond, $cols_from_relations) = $self->_merge_with_rscond($values);

  my %new = (
    %$merged_cond,
    @$cols_from_relations
      ? (-cols_from_relations => $cols_from_relations)
      : (),
    -result_source => $self->result_source, # DO NOT REMOVE THIS, REQUIRED
  );

  return $self->result_class->new(\%new);
}

# _merge_with_rscond
#
# Takes a simple hash of K/V data and returns its copy merged with the
# condition already present on the resultset. Additionally returns an
# arrayref of value/condition names, which were inferred from related
# objects (this is needed for in-memory related objects)
sub _merge_with_rscond {
  my ($self, $data) = @_;

  my (%new_data, @cols_from_relations);

  my $alias = $self->{attrs}{alias};

  if (! defined $self->{cond}) {
    # just massage $data below
  }
  elsif ($self->{cond} eq $DBIx::Class::ResultSource::UNRESOLVABLE_CONDITION) {
    %new_data = %{ $self->{attrs}{related_objects} || {} };  # nothing might have been inserted yet
    @cols_from_relations = keys %new_data;
  }
  elsif (ref $self->{cond} ne 'HASH') {
    $self->throw_exception(
      "Can't abstract implicit construct, resultset condition not a hash"
    );
  }
  else {
    # precendence must be given to passed values over values inherited from
    # the cond, so the order here is important.
    my $collapsed_cond = $self->_collapse_cond($self->{cond});
    my %implied = %{$self->_remove_alias($collapsed_cond, $alias)};

    while ( my($col, $value) = each %implied ) {
      my $vref = ref $value;
      if (
        $vref eq 'HASH'
          and
        keys(%$value) == 1
          and
        (keys %$value)[0] eq '='
      ) {
        $new_data{$col} = $value->{'='};
      }
      elsif( !$vref or $vref eq 'SCALAR' or blessed($value) ) {
        $new_data{$col} = $value;
      }
    }
  }

  %new_data = (
    %new_data,
    %{ $self->_remove_alias($data, $alias) },
  );

  return (\%new_data, \@cols_from_relations);
}

# _has_resolved_attr
#
# determines if the resultset defines at least one
# of the attributes supplied
#
# used to determine if a subquery is neccessary
#
# supports some virtual attributes:
#   -join
#     This will scan for any joins being present on the resultset.
#     It is not a mere key-search but a deep inspection of {from}
#

sub _has_resolved_attr {
  my ($self, @attr_names) = @_;

  my $attrs = $self->_resolved_attrs;

  my %extra_checks;

  for my $n (@attr_names) {
    if (grep { $n eq $_ } (qw/-join/) ) {
      $extra_checks{$n}++;
      next;
    }

    my $attr =  $attrs->{$n};

    next if not defined $attr;

    if (ref $attr eq 'HASH') {
      return 1 if keys %$attr;
    }
    elsif (ref $attr eq 'ARRAY') {
      return 1 if @$attr;
    }
    else {
      return 1 if $attr;
    }
  }

  # a resolved join is expressed as a multi-level from
  return 1 if (
    $extra_checks{-join}
      and
    ref $attrs->{from} eq 'ARRAY'
      and
    @{$attrs->{from}} > 1
  );

  return 0;
}

# _collapse_cond
#
# Recursively collapse the condition.

sub _collapse_cond {
  my ($self, $cond, $collapsed) = @_;

  $collapsed ||= {};

  if (ref $cond eq 'ARRAY') {
    foreach my $subcond (@$cond) {
      next unless ref $subcond;  # -or
      $collapsed = $self->_collapse_cond($subcond, $collapsed);
    }
  }
  elsif (ref $cond eq 'HASH') {
    if (keys %$cond and (keys %$cond)[0] eq '-and') {
      foreach my $subcond (@{$cond->{-and}}) {
        $collapsed = $self->_collapse_cond($subcond, $collapsed);
      }
    }
    else {
      foreach my $col (keys %$cond) {
        my $value = $cond->{$col};
        $collapsed->{$col} = $value;
      }
    }
  }

  return $collapsed;
}

# _remove_alias
#
# Remove the specified alias from the specified query hash. A copy is made so
# the original query is not modified.

sub _remove_alias {
  my ($self, $query, $alias) = @_;

  my %orig = %{ $query || {} };
  my %unaliased;

  foreach my $key (keys %orig) {
    if ($key !~ /\./) {
      $unaliased{$key} = $orig{$key};
      next;
    }
    $unaliased{$1} = $orig{$key}
      if $key =~ m/^(?:\Q$alias\E\.)?([^.]+)$/;
  }

  return \%unaliased;
}

sub as_query {
  my $self = shift;

  my $attrs = $self->_resolved_attrs_copy;

  # For future use:
  #
  # in list ctx:
  # my ($sql, \@bind, \%dbi_bind_attrs) = _select_args_to_query (...)
  # $sql also has no wrapping parenthesis in list ctx
  #
  my $sqlbind = $self->result_source->storage
    ->_select_args_to_query ($attrs->{from}, $attrs->{select}, $attrs->{where}, $attrs);

  return $sqlbind;
}

sub find_or_new {
  my $self     = shift;
  my $attrs    = (@_ > 1 && ref $_[$#_] eq 'HASH' ? pop(@_) : {});
  my $hash     = ref $_[0] eq 'HASH' ? shift : {@_};
  if (keys %$hash and my $row = $self->find($hash, $attrs) ) {
    return $row;
  }
  return $self->new_result($hash);
}

sub create {
  my ($self, $attrs) = @_;
  $self->throw_exception( "create needs a hashref" )
    unless ref $attrs eq 'HASH';
  return $self->new_result($attrs)->insert;
}

sub find_or_create {
  my $self     = shift;
  my $attrs    = (@_ > 1 && ref $_[$#_] eq 'HASH' ? pop(@_) : {});
  my $hash     = ref $_[0] eq 'HASH' ? shift : {@_};
  if (keys %$hash and my $row = $self->find($hash, $attrs) ) {
    return $row;
  }
  return $self->create($hash);
}

sub update_or_create {
  my $self = shift;
  my $attrs = (@_ > 1 && ref $_[$#_] eq 'HASH' ? pop(@_) : {});
  my $cond = ref $_[0] eq 'HASH' ? shift : {@_};

  my $row = $self->find($cond, $attrs);
  if (defined $row) {
    $row->update($cond);
    return $row;
  }

  return $self->create($cond);
}

sub update_or_new {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $attrs = ( @_ > 1 && ref $_[$#_] eq 'HASH' ? pop(@_) : {} );
    my $cond  = ref $_[0] eq 'HASH' ? shift : {@_};

    my $row = $self->find( $cond, $attrs );
    if ( defined $row ) {
        $row->update($cond);
        return $row;
    }

    return $self->new_result($cond);
}

sub get_cache {
  shift->{all_cache};
}

sub set_cache {
  my ( $self, $data ) = @_;
  $self->throw_exception("set_cache requires an arrayref")
      if defined($data) && (ref $data ne 'ARRAY');
  $self->{all_cache} = $data;
}

sub clear_cache {
  shift->set_cache(undef);
}

sub is_paged {
  my ($self) = @_;
  return !!$self->{attrs}{page};
}

sub is_ordered {
  my ($self) = @_;
  return scalar $self->result_source->storage->_extract_order_criteria($self->{attrs}{order_by});
}

sub related_resultset {
  my ($self, $rel) = @_;

  $self->{related_resultsets} ||= {};
  return $self->{related_resultsets}{$rel} ||= do {
    my $rsrc = $self->result_source;
    my $rel_info = $rsrc->relationship_info($rel);

    $self->throw_exception(
      "search_related: result source '" . $rsrc->source_name .
        "' has no such relationship $rel")
      unless $rel_info;

    my $attrs = $self->_chain_relationship($rel);

    my $join_count = $attrs->{seen_join}{$rel};

    my $alias = $self->result_source->storage
        ->relname_to_table_alias($rel, $join_count);

    # since this is search_related, and we already slid the select window inwards
    # (the select/as attrs were deleted in the beginning), we need to flip all
    # left joins to inner, so we get the expected results
    # read the comment on top of the actual function to see what this does
    $attrs->{from} = $rsrc->schema->storage->_inner_join_to_node ($attrs->{from}, $alias);


    #XXX - temp fix for result_class bug. There likely is a more elegant fix -groditi
    delete @{$attrs}{qw(result_class alias)};

    my $new_cache;

    if (my $cache = $self->get_cache) {
      if ($cache->[0] && $cache->[0]->related_resultset($rel)->get_cache) {
        $new_cache = [ map { @{$_->related_resultset($rel)->get_cache} }
                        @$cache ];
      }
    }

    my $rel_source = $rsrc->related_source($rel);

    my $new = do {

      # The reason we do this now instead of passing the alias to the
      # search_rs below is that if you wrap/overload resultset on the
      # source you need to know what alias it's -going- to have for things
      # to work sanely (e.g. RestrictWithObject wants to be able to add
      # extra query restrictions, and these may need to be $alias.)

      my $rel_attrs = $rel_source->resultset_attributes;
      local $rel_attrs->{alias} = $alias;

      $rel_source->resultset
                 ->search_rs(
                     undef, {
                       %$attrs,
                       where => $attrs->{where},
                   });
    };
    $new->set_cache($new_cache) if $new_cache;
    $new;
  };
}

sub current_source_alias {
  my ($self) = @_;

  return ($self->{attrs} || {})->{alias} || 'me';
}

sub as_subselect_rs {
  my $self = shift;

  my $attrs = $self->_resolved_attrs;

  my $fresh_rs = (ref $self)->new (
    $self->result_source
  );

  # these pieces will be locked in the subquery
  delete $fresh_rs->{cond};
  delete @{$fresh_rs->{attrs}}{qw/where bind/};

  return $fresh_rs->search( {}, {
    from => [{
      $attrs->{alias} => $self->as_query,
      -alias  => $attrs->{alias},
      -rsrc   => $self->result_source,
    }],
    alias => $attrs->{alias},
  });
}

# This code is called by search_related, and makes sure there
# is clear separation between the joins before, during, and
# after the relationship. This information is needed later
# in order to properly resolve prefetch aliases (any alias
# with a relation_chain_depth less than the depth of the
# current prefetch is not considered)
#
# The increments happen twice per join. An even number means a
# relationship specified via a search_related, whereas an odd
# number indicates a join/prefetch added via attributes
#
# Also this code will wrap the current resultset (the one we
# chain to) in a subselect IFF it contains limiting attributes
sub _chain_relationship {
  my ($self, $rel) = @_;
  my $source = $self->result_source;
  my $attrs = { %{$self->{attrs}||{}} };

  # we need to take the prefetch the attrs into account before we
  # ->_resolve_join as otherwise they get lost - captainL
  my $join = $self->_merge_joinpref_attr( $attrs->{join}, $attrs->{prefetch} );

  delete @{$attrs}{qw/join prefetch collapse group_by distinct select as columns +select +as +columns/};

  my $seen = { %{ (delete $attrs->{seen_join}) || {} } };

  my $from;
  my @force_subq_attrs = qw/offset rows group_by having/;

  if (
    ($attrs->{from} && ref $attrs->{from} ne 'ARRAY')
      ||
    $self->_has_resolved_attr (@force_subq_attrs)
  ) {
    # Nuke the prefetch (if any) before the new $rs attrs
    # are resolved (prefetch is useless - we are wrapping
    # a subquery anyway).
    my $rs_copy = $self->search;
    $rs_copy->{attrs}{join} = $self->_merge_joinpref_attr (
      $rs_copy->{attrs}{join},
      delete $rs_copy->{attrs}{prefetch},
    );

    $from = [{
      -rsrc   => $source,
      -alias  => $attrs->{alias},
      $attrs->{alias} => $rs_copy->as_query,
    }];
    delete @{$attrs}{@force_subq_attrs, qw/where bind/};
    $seen->{-relation_chain_depth} = 0;
  }
  elsif ($attrs->{from}) {  #shallow copy suffices
    $from = [ @{$attrs->{from}} ];
  }
  else {
    $from = [{
      -rsrc  => $source,
      -alias => $attrs->{alias},
      $attrs->{alias} => $source->from,
    }];
  }

  my $jpath = ($seen->{-relation_chain_depth})
    ? $from->[-1][0]{-join_path}
    : [];

  my @requested_joins = $source->_resolve_join(
    $join,
    $attrs->{alias},
    $seen,
    $jpath,
  );

  push @$from, @requested_joins;

  $seen->{-relation_chain_depth}++;

  # if $self already had a join/prefetch specified on it, the requested
  # $rel might very well be already included. What we do in this case
  # is effectively a no-op (except that we bump up the chain_depth on
  # the join in question so we could tell it *is* the search_related)
  my $already_joined;

  # we consider the last one thus reverse
  for my $j (reverse @requested_joins) {
    my ($last_j) = keys %{$j->[0]{-join_path}[-1]};
    if ($rel eq $last_j) {
      $j->[0]{-relation_chain_depth}++;
      $already_joined++;
      last;
    }
  }

  unless ($already_joined) {
    push @$from, $source->_resolve_join(
      $rel,
      $attrs->{alias},
      $seen,
      $jpath,
    );
  }

  $seen->{-relation_chain_depth}++;

  return {%$attrs, from => $from, seen_join => $seen};
}

# too many times we have to do $attrs = { %{$self->_resolved_attrs} }
sub _resolved_attrs_copy {
  my $self = shift;
  return { %{$self->_resolved_attrs (@_)} };
}

sub _resolved_attrs {
  my $self = shift;
  return $self->{_attrs} if $self->{_attrs};

  my $attrs  = { %{ $self->{attrs} || {} } };
  my $source = $self->result_source;
  my $alias  = $attrs->{alias};

  # default selection list
  $attrs->{columns} = [ $source->columns ]
    unless List::Util::first { exists $attrs->{$_} } qw/columns cols select as/;

  # merge selectors together
  for (qw/columns select as/) {
    $attrs->{$_} = $self->_merge_attr($attrs->{$_}, delete $attrs->{"+$_"})
      if $attrs->{$_} or $attrs->{"+$_"};
  }

  # disassemble columns
  my (@sel, @as);
  if (my $cols = delete $attrs->{columns}) {
    for my $c (ref $cols eq 'ARRAY' ? @$cols : $cols) {
      if (ref $c eq 'HASH') {
        for my $as (keys %$c) {
          push @sel, $c->{$as};
          push @as, $as;
        }
      }
      else {
        push @sel, $c;
        push @as, $c;
      }
    }
  }

  # when trying to weed off duplicates later do not go past this point -
  # everything added from here on is unbalanced "anyone's guess" stuff
  my $dedup_stop_idx = $#as;

  push @as, @{ ref $attrs->{as} eq 'ARRAY' ? $attrs->{as} : [ $attrs->{as} ] }
    if $attrs->{as};
  push @sel, @{ ref $attrs->{select} eq 'ARRAY' ? $attrs->{select} : [ $attrs->{select} ] }
    if $attrs->{select};

  # assume all unqualified selectors to apply to the current alias (legacy stuff)
  for (@sel) {
    $_ = (ref $_ or $_ =~ /\./) ? $_ : "$alias.$_";
  }

  # disqualify all $alias.col as-bits (collapser mandated)
  for (@as) {
    $_ = ($_ =~ /^\Q$alias.\E(.+)$/) ? $1 : $_;
  }

  # de-duplicate the result (remove *identical* select/as pairs)
  # and also die on duplicate {as} pointing to different {select}s
  # not using a c-style for as the condition is prone to shrinkage
  my $seen;
  my $i = 0;
  while ($i <= $dedup_stop_idx) {
    if ($seen->{"$sel[$i] \x00\x00 $as[$i]"}++) {
      splice @sel, $i, 1;
      splice @as, $i, 1;
      $dedup_stop_idx--;
    }
    elsif ($seen->{$as[$i]}++) {
      $self->throw_exception(
        "inflate_result() alias '$as[$i]' specified twice with different SQL-side {select}-ors"
      );
    }
    else {
      $i++;
    }
  }

  $attrs->{select} = \@sel;
  $attrs->{as} = \@as;

  $attrs->{from} ||= [{
    -rsrc   => $source,
    -alias  => $self->{attrs}{alias},
    $self->{attrs}{alias} => $source->from,
  }];

  if ( $attrs->{join} || $attrs->{prefetch} ) {

    $self->throw_exception ('join/prefetch can not be used with a custom {from}')
      if ref $attrs->{from} ne 'ARRAY';

    my $join = (delete $attrs->{join}) || {};

    if ( defined $attrs->{prefetch} ) {
      $join = $self->_merge_joinpref_attr( $join, $attrs->{prefetch} );
    }

    $attrs->{from} =    # have to copy here to avoid corrupting the original
      [
        @{ $attrs->{from} },
        $source->_resolve_join(
          $join,
          $alias,
          { %{ $attrs->{seen_join} || {} } },
          ( $attrs->{seen_join} && keys %{$attrs->{seen_join}})
            ? $attrs->{from}[-1][0]{-join_path}
            : []
          ,
        )
      ];
  }

  if ( defined $attrs->{order_by} ) {
    $attrs->{order_by} = (
      ref( $attrs->{order_by} ) eq 'ARRAY'
      ? [ @{ $attrs->{order_by} } ]
      : [ $attrs->{order_by} || () ]
    );
  }

  if ($attrs->{group_by} and ref $attrs->{group_by} ne 'ARRAY') {
    $attrs->{group_by} = [ $attrs->{group_by} ];
  }

  # generate the distinct induced group_by early, as prefetch will be carried via a
  # subquery (since a group_by is present)
  if (delete $attrs->{distinct}) {
    if ($attrs->{group_by}) {
      carp_unique ("Useless use of distinct on a grouped resultset ('distinct' is ignored when a 'group_by' is present)");
    }
    else {
      # distinct affects only the main selection part, not what prefetch may
      # add below.
      $attrs->{group_by} = $source->storage->_group_over_selection (
        $attrs->{from},
        $attrs->{select},
        $attrs->{order_by},
      );
    }
  }

  $attrs->{collapse} ||= {};
  if ($attrs->{prefetch}) {

    $self->throw_exception("Unable to prefetch, resultset contains an unnamed selector $attrs->{_dark_selector}{string}")
      if $attrs->{_dark_selector};

    my $prefetch = $self->_merge_joinpref_attr( {}, delete $attrs->{prefetch} );

    my $prefetch_ordering = [];

    # this is a separate structure (we don't look in {from} directly)
    # as the resolver needs to shift things off the lists to work
    # properly (identical-prefetches on different branches)
    my $join_map = {};
    if (ref $attrs->{from} eq 'ARRAY') {

      my $start_depth = $attrs->{seen_join}{-relation_chain_depth} || 0;

      for my $j ( @{$attrs->{from}}[1 .. $#{$attrs->{from}} ] ) {
        next unless $j->[0]{-alias};
        next unless $j->[0]{-join_path};
        next if ($j->[0]{-relation_chain_depth} || 0) < $start_depth;

        my @jpath = map { keys %$_ } @{$j->[0]{-join_path}};

        my $p = $join_map;
        $p = $p->{$_} ||= {} for @jpath[ ($start_depth/2) .. $#jpath]; #only even depths are actual jpath boundaries
        push @{$p->{-join_aliases} }, $j->[0]{-alias};
      }
    }

    my @prefetch =
      $source->_resolve_prefetch( $prefetch, $alias, $join_map, $prefetch_ordering, $attrs->{collapse} );

    # we need to somehow mark which columns came from prefetch
    if (@prefetch) {
      my $sel_end = $#{$attrs->{select}};
      $attrs->{_prefetch_selector_range} = [ $sel_end + 1, $sel_end + @prefetch ];
    }

    push @{ $attrs->{select} }, (map { $_->[0] } @prefetch);
    push @{ $attrs->{as} }, (map { $_->[1] } @prefetch);

    push( @{$attrs->{order_by}}, @$prefetch_ordering );
    $attrs->{_collapse_order_by} = \@$prefetch_ordering;
  }


  # if both page and offset are specified, produce a combined offset
  # even though it doesn't make much sense, this is what pre 081xx has
  # been doing
  if (my $page = delete $attrs->{page}) {
    $attrs->{offset} =
      ($attrs->{rows} * ($page - 1))
            +
      ($attrs->{offset} || 0)
    ;
  }

  return $self->{_attrs} = $attrs;
}

sub _rollout_attr {
  my ($self, $attr) = @_;

  if (ref $attr eq 'HASH') {
    return $self->_rollout_hash($attr);
  } elsif (ref $attr eq 'ARRAY') {
    return $self->_rollout_array($attr);
  } else {
    return [$attr];
  }
}

sub _rollout_array {
  my ($self, $attr) = @_;

  my @rolled_array;
  foreach my $element (@{$attr}) {
    if (ref $element eq 'HASH') {
      push( @rolled_array, @{ $self->_rollout_hash( $element ) } );
    } elsif (ref $element eq 'ARRAY') {
      #  XXX - should probably recurse here
      push( @rolled_array, @{$self->_rollout_array($element)} );
    } else {
      push( @rolled_array, $element );
    }
  }
  return \@rolled_array;
}

sub _rollout_hash {
  my ($self, $attr) = @_;

  my @rolled_array;
  foreach my $key (keys %{$attr}) {
    push( @rolled_array, { $key => $attr->{$key} } );
  }
  return \@rolled_array;
}

sub _calculate_score {
  my ($self, $a, $b) = @_;

  if (defined $a xor defined $b) {
    return 0;
  }
  elsif (not defined $a) {
    return 1;
  }

  if (ref $b eq 'HASH') {
    my ($b_key) = keys %{$b};
    if (ref $a eq 'HASH') {
      my ($a_key) = keys %{$a};
      if ($a_key eq $b_key) {
        return (1 + $self->_calculate_score( $a->{$a_key}, $b->{$b_key} ));
      } else {
        return 0;
      }
    } else {
      return ($a eq $b_key) ? 1 : 0;
    }
  } else {
    if (ref $a eq 'HASH') {
      my ($a_key) = keys %{$a};
      return ($b eq $a_key) ? 1 : 0;
    } else {
      return ($b eq $a) ? 1 : 0;
    }
  }
}

sub _merge_joinpref_attr {
  my ($self, $orig, $import) = @_;

  return $import unless defined($orig);
  return $orig unless defined($import);

  $orig = $self->_rollout_attr($orig);
  $import = $self->_rollout_attr($import);

  my $seen_keys;
  foreach my $import_element ( @{$import} ) {
    # find best candidate from $orig to merge $b_element into
    my $best_candidate = { position => undef, score => 0 }; my $position = 0;
    foreach my $orig_element ( @{$orig} ) {
      my $score = $self->_calculate_score( $orig_element, $import_element );
      if ($score > $best_candidate->{score}) {
        $best_candidate->{position} = $position;
        $best_candidate->{score} = $score;
      }
      $position++;
    }
    my ($import_key) = ( ref $import_element eq 'HASH' ) ? keys %{$import_element} : ($import_element);

    if ($best_candidate->{score} == 0 || exists $seen_keys->{$import_key}) {
      push( @{$orig}, $import_element );
    } else {
      my $orig_best = $orig->[$best_candidate->{position}];
      # merge orig_best and b_element together and replace original with merged
      if (ref $orig_best ne 'HASH') {
        $orig->[$best_candidate->{position}] = $import_element;
      } elsif (ref $import_element eq 'HASH') {
        my ($key) = keys %{$orig_best};
        $orig->[$best_candidate->{position}] = { $key => $self->_merge_joinpref_attr($orig_best->{$key}, $import_element->{$key}) };
      }
    }
    $seen_keys->{$import_key} = 1; # don't merge the same key twice
  }

  return $orig;
}

{
  my $hm;

  sub _merge_attr {
    $hm ||= do {
      require Hash::Merge;
      my $hm = Hash::Merge->new;

      $hm->specify_behavior({
        SCALAR => {
          SCALAR => sub {
            my ($defl, $defr) = map { defined $_ } (@_[0,1]);

            if ($defl xor $defr) {
              return [ $defl ? $_[0] : $_[1] ];
            }
            elsif (! $defl) {
              return [];
            }
            elsif (__HM_DEDUP and $_[0] eq $_[1]) {
              return [ $_[0] ];
            }
            else {
              return [$_[0], $_[1]];
            }
          },
          ARRAY => sub {
            return $_[1] if !defined $_[0];
            return $_[1] if __HM_DEDUP and List::Util::first { $_ eq $_[0] } @{$_[1]};
            return [$_[0], @{$_[1]}]
          },
          HASH  => sub {
            return [] if !defined $_[0] and !keys %{$_[1]};
            return [ $_[1] ] if !defined $_[0];
            return [ $_[0] ] if !keys %{$_[1]};
            return [$_[0], $_[1]]
          },
        },
        ARRAY => {
          SCALAR => sub {
            return $_[0] if !defined $_[1];
            return $_[0] if __HM_DEDUP and List::Util::first { $_ eq $_[1] } @{$_[0]};
            return [@{$_[0]}, $_[1]]
          },
          ARRAY => sub {
            my @ret = @{$_[0]} or return $_[1];
            return [ @ret, @{$_[1]} ] unless __HM_DEDUP;
            my %idx = map { $_ => 1 } @ret;
            push @ret, grep { ! defined $idx{$_} } (@{$_[1]});
            \@ret;
          },
          HASH => sub {
            return [ $_[1] ] if ! @{$_[0]};
            return $_[0] if !keys %{$_[1]};
            return $_[0] if __HM_DEDUP and List::Util::first { $_ eq $_[1] } @{$_[0]};
            return [ @{$_[0]}, $_[1] ];
          },
        },
        HASH => {
          SCALAR => sub {
            return [] if !keys %{$_[0]} and !defined $_[1];
            return [ $_[0] ] if !defined $_[1];
            return [ $_[1] ] if !keys %{$_[0]};
            return [$_[0], $_[1]]
          },
          ARRAY => sub {
            return [] if !keys %{$_[0]} and !@{$_[1]};
            return [ $_[0] ] if !@{$_[1]};
            return $_[1] if !keys %{$_[0]};
            return $_[1] if __HM_DEDUP and List::Util::first { $_ eq $_[0] } @{$_[1]};
            return [ $_[0], @{$_[1]} ];
          },
          HASH => sub {
            return [] if !keys %{$_[0]} and !keys %{$_[1]};
            return [ $_[0] ] if !keys %{$_[1]};
            return [ $_[1] ] if !keys %{$_[0]};
            return [ $_[0] ] if $_[0] eq $_[1];
            return [ $_[0], $_[1] ];
          },
        }
      } => 'DBIC_RS_ATTR_MERGER');
      $hm;
    };

    return $hm->merge ($_[1], $_[2]);
  }
}

sub STORABLE_freeze {
  my ($self, $cloning) = @_;
  my $to_serialize = { %$self };

  # A cursor in progress can't be serialized (and would make little sense anyway)
  delete $to_serialize->{cursor};

  Storable::nfreeze($to_serialize);
}

# need this hook for symmetry
sub STORABLE_thaw {
  my ($self, $cloning, $serialized) = @_;

  %$self = %{ Storable::thaw($serialized) };

  $self;
}


sub throw_exception {
  my $self=shift;

  if (ref $self and my $rsrc = $self->result_source) {
    $rsrc->throw_exception(@_)
  }
  else {
    DBIx::Class::Exception->throw(@_);
  }
}

# XXX: FIXME: Attributes docs need clearing up

1;