[Mason] syshandler

[Jim B. <ji...@us...>]

Good morning (GMT -5),

I'm trying to follow the Mason books apprentice.perl.org example for login =
and session management and I'm having and issue with 'syshandler'.

The book alleges that a file called 'syshandler' will get called first, eve=
n before autohandler  and even when autohandler is not called. It says that=
 syshandler is the ideal place for setting up database handles and session =
cookies and such.

I've tried mimicking what the book does and it doesn't seem to recognize it=
. Digging into the example from the book, it seems to hook it into the auto=
handler with an inherit. Researching it on google either points to copies o=
f the book on line or errors that its web crawlers has found, but no longer=
 exist. There is also no reference to it on masonhq.com's search engine or =
documents.

Is the syshandler something they made up or is it a real component of mason=
? How do I go about debugging it? I thought I might have had it working onc=
e, but I can't get back there now and I'm wondering if something was cached=
 (I got the db connection working from one file first, then tried to distri=
bute it).=20

Also, it seems like mason doesn't tell you when things fail, it tells you w=
hen you try to use them next time and that fails... is that a fair characte=
rzation?

Jimbus

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