Hi,
I'm working on a new feature for David E. Wheeler's DBIx::Connector module. I
want to make it so that if you pass an an existing dbh to the constructor, you
get back a DBIx::Connector object that wraps the dbh. (DBIx::Connector adds
transaction, savepoint, and reconnect logic to DBI).
The problem is, in order to add this feature, I need the original args that
were passed to connect() when creating the dbh. The reason is that
DBIx::Connector will need to construct the dbh anew if it gets disconnected.
However, I can't find a way to get those args out of the dbh. Normally I would
try looping over the contents of the tied hash, but FIRSTKEY and NEXTKEY both
have null method bodies (i.e. { }), so looping is effectively disabled.
Any ideas? Tim, would you be amenable to a patch that implemented FIRSTKEY and
NEXTKEY? It seems to me that there are legitimate use cases for introspection,
such as this one.
Thanks for any advice, and many thanks for the indispensable DBI. :)
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