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

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I have seen that error many times myself, and I have never quite been 
able to track down the exact cause. I suspect it is down in overload.pm. 
My workaround has always been, as Matt suggested, never to compare 
objects when I mean to compare their stringification or their ID (which 
are not necessarily the same).

Hope that helps. If anyone can narrow down the cause of this better, 
speak up. :)

-Vince

Matt S Trout wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 01:10:41PM -0400, Juan Camacho wrote:
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>>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 :)
>>    
>>
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>Something's gone wrong in the stringification somewhere, I'd guess.
>
>How about
>
>return 1 if $type->id == $current_type->id; # assuming numeric pk
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>instead?
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