Class::Data::Inheritable and persistence.

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Hi all,

I was just poking around in an application I am building when I tripped 
over something interesting. Class::Data::Inheritable, when used under 
mod_perl, preserves the stored class data across multiple requests (but 
inconsistently if using a forking Apache, as each child gets its own 
copy). This had some scary repercussions for my app, and I wondered if 
any of Class::DBI's innards might be adversely effected by this?

I did a quick grep through the code ( but I am still using 0.95 ) and 
found a few properties that appear to store objects (__grouper?). If any 
class properties get manipulated during the course of a request through 
mod_perl, subsequent requests might get the value set in the previous 
request instead of the default. (Would the live object cache in 0.96 be 
effected at all?)

I was just curious to know if anyone had examined how this might effect 
CDBI apps under mod_perl, or had experienced any problems with it.

-Vince Veselosky
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