Overriding a built-in Apache configuration directive using mod_perl

Matisse Enzer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-perl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Is it practical to override a built-in Apache config directive such as 'Require' in a mod_perl Apache module?

I have examined the documentation at:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/config/custom.html#Creating_and_Using_Custom_Configuration_Directives

and it seems like it might work, but I'd like to hear others' opinions before starting work on it.

So, for example, can I have our Apache module provide a custom version of the 'Require' directive, approximately like this:

 # Example of overriding 'Require' in a mod_perl Apache module
 #
 my @directives = ( 
     {   name         => 'Require',
         func         => __PACKAGE__ . '::Require',
         req_override => Apache2::Const::OR_ALL,
         args_how     => Apache2::Const::ITERATE,
         errmsg       => 'Require Entry1 [Entry2 ... [EntryN]]',
     },
 );  

 Apache2::Module::add( __PACKAGE__, \@directives );

 sub Require {
     my ( $self, $parms, $type, @args ) = @_; 

     my @translated_args = ($type);

     # Custom manipulations of arguments
     foreach my $old_style_arg (@args) {
         my $new_style_arg
             = $self->translate_arg($old_style_arg) push $new_style_arg,
             @translated_args;
     }   
     $self->{'Require'} = \@translated_args;
 }
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