I may be wrong here, but it seems that there are conflicting standards.
MySQL refers to the stored date of time "0000-00-00 00:00:00" as equivalent to NULL. (update - only, it seems if datetime is defined as NOT NULL)
But Rose :: DB :: Object uses DateTime fields for MySQL DATETIME, and trying to set the DATETIME value to zero with "0000-00-00" throws an exception in the DateTime module. those. I cannot create a DateTime object with year 0, month 0, day 0, because it throws an exception in the DateTime module.
I checked in Rose :: DB :: Object :: Metadata :: Column :: Datetime and I see no way to explicitly handle NULL DateTime when creating a record or when retrieving it.
Did I miss something?
those. can Rose :: DB :: Object handle NULL datetime fields (MySQL), although DateTime (Perl module) cannot.
Code example:
use strict;
use warnings;
use lib 'lib';
use RoseDB::dt_test;
my $dt_entry = RoseDB::dt_test->new();
$dt_entry->date_time_field('0000-00-00');
$dt_entry->save;
1;
__END__
mysql> show create table dt_test \G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
Table: dt_test
Create Table: CREATE TABLE `dt_test` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`date_time_field` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
with RoseDB :: dt_test module:
package RoseDB::dt_test;
use strict;
use warnings;
use RoseDB;
use base qw(Rose::DB::Object);
__PACKAGE__->meta->setup (
table => 'dt_test',
columns =>
[
id => { type => 'int', primary_key => 1 },
date_time_field => { type => 'datetime' },
],
);
sub init_db { RoseDB->get_dbh }
1;
When I started it, I get the error "Invalid datetime:" 0000-00-00 "in line tmp.pl 8"
When I change the date to "2010-01-01", it works as expected:
mysql> select * from dt_test\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
id: 1
date_time_field: 2010-01-01 00:00:00
I finally managed to recover the MySQL NULL query example!
mysql> create table dt_test(dt_test_field datetime not null);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.05 sec)
mysql> insert into dt_test values(null);
ERROR 1048 (23000): Column 'dt_test_field' cannot be null
mysql> insert into dt_test values('0000-00-00');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> select * from dt_test;
+---------------------+
| dt_test_field |
+---------------------+
| 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
+---------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select * from dt_test where dt_test_field is null;
+---------------------+
| dt_test_field |
+---------------------+
| 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
+---------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
It seems that problems with tables in which datetimes are defined using NOT NULL and then try to use MySQL's false zero are a problem. I'm too tired to play with it now, but I'll see what happens when I change the table structure in the morning.