Re: autoflush behavior for subrequests

On Sep 16, 2004, at 8:53 AM, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> 1. Should a subreauest which calls $self->flush_buffer be flushing the
>    parent request?
>
> Right now it does, but I'm not sure that's right.  Maybe the subrequest
> should really be isolated if the parent does not have autoflush on.

I agree with that. But then I haven't used subrequests, myself. But it 
sounds right.

> 2. Given a parent with autoflush on, and a subreq which explicitly 
> turns
>    it off, what do we expect to happen?  Right now the output gets 
> flushed
>    anyway, because the child's default out_method will end up calling
>    print() on the parent, which will then flush.
>
> Is this correct?  Again, if the subrequest should be totally isolated 
> then
> it's not correct.

Yeah, that makes sense to me, too.

Regards,

David



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