Re: [Cgi-session-user] errors not displaying

[Randall H. <ra...@ra...>]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:51:26PM -0400, Mark Stosberg wrote:

> As you can see from the snippet you posted, CGI::Session is setting the=
=20
> error.
>=20
> As documented, this error is available through the errstr() method if=20
> you want to see the error.  It's the user's responsibility to check this=
=20
> error.

Thanks for the reply, Mark.  Normally I'd agree with you, but the
error is occuring in CGI::Session's flush() method, which is called
automatically when the object goes out of scope.  So unless I call
flush() explicitly, I'll never have an opportunity to check for the
error.

In practice, it means that I either need to create a destructor, or
call flush() then check errstr() at every possible exit point for the
code.  It seems sub-optimal to me that CGI::Sesion says, in effect,
"Trust me to call flush() automatically, but I won't promise it will
do anything useful."

IMHO if flush() is called automatically it should die of its errors,
otherwise it isn't trustworthy.

r