This DBIx::Class component can be used to automatically insert a message digest of selected columns. By default DigestColumns will use Digest::MD5 to insert a 128-bit hexadecimal message digest of the column value. The length of the inserted string will be 32 and it will only contain characters from this set: '0'..'9' and 'a'..'f'. If you would like to use a specific digest module to create your message digest, you can set "digest_algorithm":