---
name: "Coat::Persistent::Meta"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libcoat-persistent-perl"
version: "0.223-1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Coat::Persistent::Meta"
---

# Coat::Persistent::Meta(3pm)

## NAME

Coat::Persistent::Meta -- meta-information for Coat::Persistent objects

## DESCRIPTION

The purpose of this class is to translate Model information into SQL information. Coat::Persistent uses this class to store and retreive meta-information about models and their database-related properties.

This class provides accessors (setters and getters) for each  meta-information it handles.

These are the supported meta-information:

- **table\_name** : The table name associated to the model

  - **primary\_key** : The column in the table used as primary key

  ## SEE ALSO

Coat::Persistent

## AUTHOR

This module was written by Alexis Sukrieh \<sukria@cpan.org\>.

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2007-2008 by Alexis Sukrieh.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.