Apache::Request question

[Jonathan Vanasco <suppressed>]

I'm posting to mp , as this is perl-glue related.

as a note, I'm using OS X as a dev box , and apreq doesn't compile  
right on it - so that might be the problem

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i'm standardizing my some functions to release into cpan and am at a  
bit of a loss on catching apreq errors.

I have this code:

my 	$want_to_die= 0;
my	 $req;	
eval {
	$req= Apache2::Request->new( $r , %apr_args );
		$r->discard_request_body;
	my 	$args_status = $req->args_status ;
	my 	$body_status = $req->body_status ;
	my 	$param_status= $req->param_status ;

	print STDERR "\n args_status $args_status || " . ( ref $args_status );
	print STDERR "\n body_status  $body_status || " . ( ref $body_status );
	print STDERR "\n param_status $param_status ||" . ( ref  
$param_status );

	my 	$body;
	if ( $want_to_die ) {
		my 	$body = $req->body ;
		print STDERR "\n body $body ||" . ( ref $body );
	}

};
	print STDERR "$@ || " . ( ref $@ );

The behavior I've observed is:

	If there is no POST , param_status + body_status are 'Missing input  
data'
	If there is POST, but its too big, param_status + body_status is  
'Exceeds configured maximum limit'
	If i submit any query string GET args, args_status is "Unknown  
error: 0"
	If i submit no query string / GET args, args_status is "Missing  
input data"

	if i try to access the body on an overlimit, THEN i'll pull an error  
into suppressed  ( $want_to_die= 1 )

The issue I have is:
	All of the _status returns are just plain strings,
	The text I get on what seems to be valid calls doesn't make sense:  
Missing input data / Unknown error -- those look like errors to me.   
but they're not.
	The only way I can seem to pull an actual error is accessng the body/ 
param directly , and ignoring the object.

So : Is there a standardized way I can test for having an error or  
not ? and are my status strings giving me the correct info ?



// Jonathan Vanasco

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