[Perl-workflow-devel] Allowing multiple factories

[Alexander K. <ak-...@cy...>]

Hi all,

in OpenXPKI, we are currently doing funny things with having multiple
different configurations available in the system and we would like to
have multiple Workflow::Factory instances with different configuration.
Unfortunately, Workflow::Factory is singleton for now. What would you
think about adding a 'force' parameter to Workflow::Factory->new()
that would allow people to create a new (second, third, ...) instance?

The alternative of subclassing Workflow::Factory works, but is not very
elegant. The RT bug #18159 gets it correctly when saying that
subclassing Workflow::Factory is broken. Even though I can have my own
Factory class and instance, once objects are created (i.e.
Workflow::State objects), they use 'use Workflow::Factory qw( FACTORY )'
instead of my factory (instance). Changing that would probably involve
passing the factory instance to every 'new()' there is, which seems like
a lot of work. For now, we are using the ugly hack of changing the
symbol table: *Workflow::State::FACTORY = sub { return $factory } (and
so on for different classes as well). If someone has an easy solution
that solves this bug, I'd be happy to implement it as well (because
people might want to change their factory in ways different to ours
and that is a good thing) ...

Best regards,
    Alex
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