Re: $r vs. Apache2::RequestUtil->request

Okay, never mind.  The Apache2::Log methods are in fact working for me.
 Stupid error.

I am still curious about the difference between the Apache2::Request object
which is the default request record accessor, and the Apache2::RequestRec
object which comes out of Apache2::RequestUtil::request.


On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Charlie Katz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, I'm confused about something.  I am cleaning up some legacy Perl code
> in our application, and I find a number of our custom Perl modules have
> functions which require $r be passed to them solely for use in logging (e.g.
> $r->log->error()). I want to remove that requirement, so I am changing
> things around so that the code uses Apache2::RequestUtil::request to get the
> request object when needed.  This is working fine, except when I use the
> object retrieved that way, the $r->log methods fail to write to the server
> log.   In addition, I see that the original $r and the new one from
> A::RU::request are different:
>
> use Data::Dumper;
> print STDERR Dumper($r);
> print STDERR Dumper(Apache2::RequestUtil->request);
>
> yields
>
> $VAR1 = bless( do{\(my $o = 158143776)}, 'Apache2::Request' );
> $VAR1 = bless( do{\(my $o = 158116376)}, 'Apache2::RequestRec' );
>
> Can someone help me understand this difference, and how to use the object
> retrieved from A::RU::request to access the Apache2::Log methods?  Why isn't
> the original $r an Apache2::RequestRec object?
>
> This is Perl 5.14.2, mod_perl 2.0.5
>
> Thanks.
>
> Charlie Katz
>
>