[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Sergeant) wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Ken Williams wrote:
>
>> The thing I can't figure out from the XS code is how/where
>> Apache->request calls sv2request_rec(), which actually does the
>> extraction work. Somehow it's automatically converted, because I see no
>> manual conversion in the Apache->request code below:
>>
>> void
>> request(self, r=NULL)
>> SV *self
>> Apache r
>>
>> PPCODE:
>> self = self;
>> if(items > 1) perl_request_rec(r);
>> XPUSHs(perl_bless_request_rec(perl_request_rec(NULL)));
>>
>> Any pointers?
>
>It's done in the typemap.
Dang. So that would mean that in order to fix this, Apache->request($r)
would have to accept an arbitrary scalar, not something automatically
converted to an Apache object, right?
And then there's the matter of how it should be stored...
>
>> The reason I'm asking is that the current behavior of
>> Apache->request($r) makes it really hard to subclass Apache::Registry
>> and the like, because lots of code (like CGI.pm) call Apache->request to
>> get the current request object.
>
>Yeah I have this same "bug" in AxKit. It's a real pain.
If I get some time this week I'll see whether I can make a patch. But
I'm in pretty unfamiliar territory.
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