Re: moose and mod_perl

Mike,

Honestly, I have no idea what that directive does, I never used it :)

However a little googling shows that it is perhaps a problem for more  
then just you:

http://modperlbook.org/html/4-2-9-PerlFreshRestart.html

And that it is ultimately deprecated in 2.0:

http://modperlbook.org/html/25-1-2-6-PerlFreshRestart.html

I suspect that effort would be better spent moving your old code away  
from using it instead of trying to make Moose support it. I know that  
Moose works with Module::Refresh (there are tests in the suite for it)  
and it did at one point work with Apache::Reload as well (I haven't  
tested it against the latest version as we have moved away from  
mod_perl at work and us mostly FCGI now).

- Stevan

On Dec 16, 2008, at 6:15 AM, Mike Glen wrote:

> Did some more digging into this and it is down to the line
>
> PerlFreshRestart on
>
> in one of the apache config files
> turn it off and i can preload Moose classes no problem
>
> unfortunately this seems to break our old mod_perl code  (running  
> using perl 5.8.8 )
>
>
> [email protected] wrote:
>> I'm preloading with a startup.pl
>> there a few other things in it at the minute from an old mod_perl app
>> when im back in work tomorrow i will trim everything else out so i  
>> am just
>> preloading the Moose stuff and see if that makes a difference
>>
>>
>>> Mike,
>>>
>>> That is very odd, I have had several Moose based apps running under
>>> mod_perl for a while now without issue.
>>>
>>> How exactly are you pre-loading? With a startup.pl?
>>>
>>> - Stevan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 15, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Mike Glen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Are there any know issues with using moose and mod_perl when you
>>>> preload modules in a startup.pl?
>>>>
>>>> I'm running the latest Moose (downloaded today), mod_perl 1, apache
>>>> 1.3.37 and perl 5.8.8
>>>>
>>>> What seems to be happening is that if i preload any mod_perl  
>>>> scripts
>>>> using Moose objects then they loose their attributes.
>>>>
>>>> for example I have a Moose class
>>>>
>>>> package MINDsweep::TestClass;
>>>>
>>>> use Moose;
>>>> has 'requiredAttRO' => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'Str', required => 1);
>>>> has 'requiredAttRW' => ( is => 'rw', isa => 'Str', required => 1);
>>>>
>>>> 1;
>>>>
>>>> and a mod_perl script
>>>>
>>>> package MINDsweep::Apache::Test;
>>>>
>>>> use Apache::Request();
>>>> use Apache::Constants qw(OK);
>>>> use MINDsweep::TestClass();
>>>>
>>>> use strict;
>>>>
>>>> sub handler {
>>>>  my $r = Apache::Request->new(shift);
>>>>  my $um;
>>>>    my $test = MINDsweep::TestClass->new( requiredAttRO => 'Read
>>>> Only', requiredAttRW => 'Read Write' );
>>>>    print '<pre>' . $test->dump() . '</pre>';
>>>>    return OK;
>>>> }
>>>> 1;
>>>>
>>>> with no preloading I get
>>>>
>>>> $VAR1 = bless( {
>>>>               'requiredAttRO' => 'Read Only',
>>>>               'requiredAttRW' => 'Read Write'
>>>>             }, 'MINDsweep::TestClass' );
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> but if I preload stuff
>>>>
>>>> $VAR1 = bless( {}, 'MINDsweep::TestClass' );
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Mike
>>>>
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