On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 08:37 PM, Per Einar Ellefsen wrote:
> At 21:30 02.10.2002, william ross wrote: > >> On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 08:18 PM, Per Einar Ellefsen wrote: >> >>> At 20:47 02.10.2002, william ross wrote: >>>> but I can't find anything to tell me how to do it. I feel sure I'm >>>> missing something really obvious here? >>> >>> You can configure objects instead of using static class names. See >>> the doc: >>> >>> http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/method_handlers.html >> >> sorry: i wasn't very clear, was I? I am using a method handler, but I >> want to pass an object of another class to it each time it is called. >> The object needs to be created outside of an individual request, and >> therefore presumably in a startup file, and then either passed to the >> handler along with each request, or somehow made available to all the >> requests, but preferably without setting a class variable, which is >> what I do at the moment but dislike. > > Yes, and that it exactly what the doc I referred to shows you: > You instantiate an object in your startup file; then you configure > mod_perl to call your handler with this object as the class, like: > PerlHandler $My::obj->handler > $My::Obj must then be an instance of the handler class, but can > contain any other information too. > Now, in your handler, you get: > sub handler ($$) { > my ($obj, $r) = @_; > > and you have your $obj, which you can use freely. ($obj isn't a class > name, it is an ... object!) > > Wasn't that what you wanted? no, not quite, though i begin to suspect that i wanted the wrong thing, and what you suggest - which I had read several times but apparently not taken in - is what I should be looking for. the trouble is that I want to have many handler objects - they hold session information, among other reasons - but I want each one to use the same factory object. I don't want to instantiate a single handler, as i think your snippet would. so i thought i'd make a new one each time and pass the factory to each one. but it looks - from what you say - like I've just got it back to front: at the moment Class::DBI::Handler expects to be given a Class::DBI::Factory object, but what I should do is put the handler($$) method in the factory itself, and construct a new Class::DBI::Factory::Handler object each time it's called, to hold whatever per-request information is required. excuse me thinking out loud: maybe you could warn me if it sounds like i've found another wrong tree. meanwhile, I'll go try it. thanks for your help will
