On 10/28/99 1:26 PM, Eric Cholet wrote:
>>> You could use "eval" and "die", Perl's standard exception mechanism.
>>
>> I thought of that, but I was concerned that my module would suffer
>> a performance hit. Granted, it's not a strong eval, but it just
>> seems ugly. If that's the only way, I guess I'm stuck, but it seems
Er, that "strong" should be "string" BTW...my bad :)
>> to me that there should be some call like Apache->return(OK) or
>> $r->return(OK) that I can call from any depth within a PerlHander
>> that would behave as if handler() returned that value.
>
> In order for mod_perl to never return to your code from that $r->return()
> it would need to pop the stack, since it needs to continue execution at
> the point following its call to your handler(). This means mod_perl
> is executing the handler in an eval block, so now it has to take over
> all exception handling. Better to do your own, you have fine control
> on what and where you use it.
Yeah, I keep forgetting that Apache.pm is just a perl module itself and
not some opaque magical entity ;) I guess I'll give eval a try. Thanks
a bunch.
-John
