Re: Class::DBI + mod_perl? "Can't locate object method 'search' ...

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Mark McWiggins wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> "Plan to throw one away" (see *The Mythical Man-Month* by Brooks), 
> indeed: I've just about finished a more-complex
> than-I-thought web + database application and then too late thought 
> "gosh, nice if there were something like Hibertnate
> for Perl." A quick web search led me to Class::DBI, which looks like it 
> will eliminate 75% of the code I just wrote, and
> good riddance to it since I have to maintain the thing ongoing.

It does reduce a lot of code, but as you've seen, it has it's own 
quirks... Maybe that's why we love it so much :)

> BUT ... I have a small example working as a standalone Perl script but 
> can't get it going inside mod_perl. I have a startup.pl
> script running successfully:

I don't know if it addresses the specific issue you are having, but 
there is a wiki page just for running C::D under mod_perl.

http://www.class-dbi.com/cgi-bin/wiki/index.cgi?UsingWithModPerl

If you aren't having some of these issues now, you soon will be, so at 
least I have lent a hand on your next problem :)

>> use lib qw(/usr/local/apache2/perl);
>> use Class::DBI;
>> use Class::DBI::Pg;
>> use inforce;
>> 1;
> 
> 
> 
> And the 'inforce' module is just simply:
> 
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>>
>> use strict;
>> use base qw(Class::DBI::Pg);
>>
>> __PACKAGE__->set_db(Main => 'dbi:Pg:dbname=etracclass', 'nobody', '');
>> __PACKAGE__->set_up_table('inforce');
>>
>> 1;
>>
> 
> But I can't get my Apache::ASP page to recognize it with any combination of
> 
>    use inforce;
> 
> with or without the other classes above in 'startup.pl'. I get
>      Can't's locate object method "search" via package 'inforce' ...
> 
> Obviously this is something simple -- thanks in advance for any guidance 
> whatsoever
> on this.

HTH a little.

        -- 
        Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP