Re: Overload error -- Operation `eq': no method found

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On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 01:10:41PM -0400, Juan Camacho wrote:
> This is a shot in the dark, but I wonder if anyone has come across an
> error like this under a mod_perl environment.  I'm unable to duplicate
> outside of our production environment, which makes this quite hard to
> track.
> 
> Operation `eq': no method found,
>   left argument in overloaded package Onyx::DB::RTMType,
>   right argument in overloaded package Onyx::DB::RTMType
> 
> 
> The code the produces it is something like this:
>     my $type = $rtm->rtm_type;
>     my $current_type = $current_rtm->rtm_type;
>     return 1 if $type eq $current_type;
> 
>     # RTM has_a RTMType;
> 
> We are running CDBI version 0.95, Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_perl/1.27
> 
> Even wild guesses are welcome :)

Something's gone wrong in the stringification somewhere, I'd guess.

How about

return 1 if $type->id == $current_type->id; # assuming numeric pk

instead?

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