MongoDB dbref in perl

Question

Is there a way to do dbrefs using the Perl API? Its not here nor is it anywhere here.

Here s a sample schema:

book: name, publisher,isdn,{author}
author : name,date of birth

I could just add a field to serve as the reference but wanted to do it with dbref instead. Did I miss something?

Answer 1

There are no helpers for it, yet. DBRefs are just normal hashes, though, so you can access/create them yourself. They have the form:

 my $ref = {'$ref' => $collection_name, '$id' => $id};

See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/DB+Ref for more info.