On Wed, 31 May 2000, Dylan Weed wrote:
>
> I can't seem to get Apache::Session to save the blessedness of an object.
> Is this an oversight on my part, a limitation of the module, a limitation
> of the database, or an intentional design decision?
>
> Conceptually, it seems as though an objects blessing is stored in a
> different place in the Perl guts than its contents. Is the problem just
> that Apache::Session never saves this information to the database?
>
> Has anyone else had occasion to do this?
Well, that sucks a lot. This is actually a bug in Apache::Session. If it
was working properly, blessed references should be fine. Unfortunately,
the module doesn't seem to be saving hash entries that are added
immediately after creation. I will fix this tomorrow.
Also I will add a test for this case.
>
>
>
> An example in Perl:
>
> # %session is a hash tied to a DB with Apache::Session 1.51
>
> package main;
>
> my $dog_obj = { name => 'Fido', breed => 'Mutt' };
>
> bless ($dog_obj, 'Dog');
>
> $dog_obj->bark();
> $session{my_dog} = $dog_obj;
>
> # The following line dies with an error:
> # cannot call method bark on unblessed reference.
> $session{my_dog}->bark();
>
> package Dog;
>
> sub bark {
> my $self = shift;
> print "Woof! I'm $self->{name}";
> }
>
>
