On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 01:05:17PM -0400, Drew Taylor wrote: > At 11:45 AM 10/11/01 -0500, Jim Smith wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:25:43AM -0400, Drew Taylor wrote: > > > I assume that the reason I get the "Can't locate the render_format method" > > > is because you're not actually storing any objects yet? > > > > Not sure. It should be able to see it. Can you give me the line number > > or any other context for it? Is it version 0.03 (the changes I mentioned > > in the previous e-mail)? > > Yes, I did add the changes you mentioned in the previous email althought I > did not DL the new tarball. Let me try that... > Interesting... I DL the newest taball. Now I get a bunch of code scrolling > by (stupid DOS prompt...) which I guess is the sample.doc. But I still get > the error: > > "Can't locate object method "render_format" via package > "PerlKB::Document::pod" ( > perhaps you forgot to load "PerlKB::Document::pod"?) at test.pl line 40."
ok - I think I know what the problem is. The PerlKB::Document object accepts a `type' argument on creation and tries to load the corresponding module. If it is successful, then it bless's the current document object (being created) into that class/module. I think DOS/Windows is presenting a case-insensitive filesystem and thus PerlKB::Document::pod loads, but is really PerlKB::Document::Pod. The PerlKB::Document code tries qw(pod POD Pod) in that order and stops with the first successful load. This is regardless of the capitalization of `type'. This was made this way to allow differences in actual and expected capitalization (e.g., qw(html HTML Html)). This side effect on case-insensitive filesystems should be viewed as a bug. I'll try and figure out a fix that can still be flexable enough to not require prior knowledge of modules (within PerlKB::Document) and allow for capitalization varients. If I can't think of a good way around this, I'll ditch it and require proper capitalization of the `type' parameter. --jim
