[Openinteract-help] Problems with Stash

[Teemu A. <te...@io...>]

Hi, 

I'm using OpenInteract 1.60.

I noticed a problem with Stash class. I might be wrong but my understanding is 
that the Stash class makes sure you can run several different OpenInteract 
websites on one Apache mod_perl server without any problems.

I have a mod_perl server with two different OpenInteract websites running on 
different virtual hosts, both configured with their own 
httpd_modperl_solo.conf with virtualhost configurations and with different 
databases. Both have different OIStashClass and startup.pl.

Lets say that on website #1 (configuration Included first in my apache.conf) I 
have the following additional SPOPS objects installed:

course
student

Which both I can access through $R->[object] without problems.

On website #2 however (configuration included second in apache.conf) I have 
the following SPOPS objects installed:

course
teacher

I can access course without problems through $R. But 
$R->teacher->fetch_group() however results in the following error:

Can't locate object method "teacher" via package "OpenInteract::Request".

Strangely, I'm able to access $R->student from website #2, which is not 
installed on website #2! (but it doesn't work as it should, because I don't 
have such a table in the database of website #2).

If I disable website #1 on my webserver, website #2 works as it should. 
$R->teacher works as it should. 

I also noticed that on website #2, defining new object classes for $R in 
system_alias configuration in server.ini doesn't work. Seems like website #2 
accesses the object class aliases from website #1, which is loaded first into 
our Apache.

It seems like everything in this Stash works (actions, own database 
connections, other configuration options...) expect object class aliases for 
$R. 

Just to let you know, oi_manage list_objects for website #2 returns the 
correct list of installed objects and there is no sign of student there, but 
the site still works the other way around.

I know the Stash implementation is a little bit of a hack, but this hack 
obviously does something wrong at the moment. Currently I have to work-around 
this problem by running separate apaches on one server, which is maybe more 
clever anyway.

- Teemu Arina