NAME

Win32::SqlServer::DTS::TaskTypes - a Perl abstract class to convert DTSTask types to Win32::SqlServer::DTS::Task types.

SYNOPSIS

    use Win32::SqlServer::DTS::TaskTypes;

        # $task is a DTSTask object
    print Win32::SqlServer::DTS::TaskTypes::convert($task->CustomTaskID), "\n";

DESCRIPTION

Win32::SqlServer::DTS::TaskTypes convert a value from the CustomTaskID method from a DTSTask object to the respective type of a Win32::SqlServer::DTS::Task object. Since the types names are not exactly the same, this abstract class is a helper to convert those types based on a hardcoded hash table.

One should use this class only if intends to extend the DTS API or create a factory.

EXPORT

Nothing.

METHODS

convert

Expects the string returned from the CustomTaskID from a DTSTask object. Returns a string with of the respective Win32::SqlServer::DTS::Task.

Beware that not all types of DTSTask objects are implemented yet. The method will return undef on those cases.

Available types are

• DTSDataPumpTask
• DTSDynamicPropertiesTask
• DTSExecutePackageTask
• DTSSendMailTask

get_perl_types

Returns all known task types from Perldts perspective as an array reference.

get_types

Returns all known task types from MS SQL Server DTS API perspective as an array reference.

SEE ALSO

• MSDN on Microsoft website and MS SQL Server 2000 Books Online are a reference about using DTS' object hierarchy, but you will need to convert examples written in VBScript to Perl code.
• Win32::SqlServer::DTS::Task and it's subclasses modules.

AUTHOR

Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior, <arfreitas@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006 by Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.