Re: [cgiapp] Calling external modules?

[Jeff MacDonald <suppressed>]

Here's what i do..


run_modes (
  'mode1' => 'module::method';
);

been doing that for ages, works like a charm.

Jeff.


On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 11:20, Darin McBride wrote:
> On October 30, 2003 07:58 am, Clint Moore wrote:
> > I swear that it is probably something that I am doing but I can't for
> > the life of me figure out where I'm going wrong.  I have some run_modes
> > defined in a separate file and referenced like this:
> >
> > sub setup {
> >       my $self = shift;
> >       $self->run_modes(
> >               'mode1' => 'Module::method(\$self)',
> >               'mode2' => 'Module::method2(\$self)',
> >       );
> > }
> >
> >       In 5.6.0 this worked no problem.  Now that I have upgraded to 5.8.x, I
> > cannot get this to work for anything.
> 
> You probably also upgrade C::A at the same time.  You probably were
> getting this to work due to some accident of design where the older
> versions of C::A used eval STRING to run the runmodes.  Current
> versions use eval EXPR because it's way faster.
> 
> This could be looked at as a regression in functionality, except that
> what you're doing was never intended to work from what I can tell in
> the docs..  So I'd like to think of this as a tightening of
> functionality rather than a regression ;->
> 
> You'll probably want to do something like these:
> 
> $self->run_modes(
>   'mode1' => sub { Module::method1(@_); },
>   'mode2' => sub { Module::method2(@_); },
> );
> 
> or
> 
> $self->run_modes(
>   'mode1' => \&Module::method1,
>   'mode2' => \&Module::method2,
> );
> 
> Both of these are untested, but should give you enough of an idea to go
> on with.  The point is that you're supposed to pass in either the name
> of a function inside your C::A-derived object, or a code ref.  The
> above two examples both use the code-ref idea - the first uses anon
> code refs, the second uses named code refs.
> 
> I'm sure there's a way to get this to work with strings, too, but I've
> not tried.  For example, this might work, too:
> 
> $self->run_modes(
>   'mode1' => 'Module::method1',
>   'mode2' => 'Module::method2',
> );
> 
> I prefer the code refs myself ;-)
> 
> 
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