[Openinteract-help] SPOPS::DBI minibug

[Ken Youens-C. <ky...@gm...>]

Here's a very tricky little thing that got me for a few hours.  In  
SPOPS::DBI at line 342, there's this:

	next ROW unless ( $obj ); # How could this ever be true?

In my SPOPS hierarchy, I had defined a class that overloads q{""} to  
stringify an SPOPS object.  I had a bug in that code that caused the  
object to stringify to the empty string, so the above test failed  
every time causing "fetch_group" to return nothing.

I'd like to suggest that be changed to something else, possibly  
"defined" or maybe check "keys %$obj" or something a little more  
rigorous.  Granted, the error was mine, but what if a stringification  
returned a valid "0"?

ky