Odd Reload Behavior

[Cory 'G' Watson]

I've recently written some code that behaves in a way I don't 
understand.  It's basically a Handler that works for more than one 
VirtualHost.  For each VirtualHost that uses the Handler, a call is 
made to App->loadPages().  It crawls an accompanying lib directory and 
loads the pages into a hashref, which is then stored in a global hash 
inside App.

Later, during requests, the Handler calls App->getPages("key"), where 
key is a unique name for each virtual host.  This _should_ return a 
hashref full of page objects, but it returns undef.

Since the App module is pre-loaded (in startup.pl), and loadPages() 
fills the hash, shouldn't the Handler's calls to getPages(key) work?  I 
know it can, because I had it working a couple weeks ago, but something 
has broken it.

It looks as though this works during the first 'load' that Apache does, 
which I'm assuming is the phase that checks for errors.  The second 
phase seems to cause my global hash to get undef'ed, even though the 
loadPages() method works properly.

I can divulge more code if necessary, but perhaps someone can clue me 
into why this happens.

Cory 'G' Watson
http://www.loggerithim.org


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