Re: [Userlogin-users] Re: [Mason] UserLogin 0.5

[John K. <jk...@in...>]

On 02 Sep 2001 12:35:53 +0200, Amodiovalerio Verde wrote:
> I look a little further inside UserLogin.
> 
> I'm not so good with 'object-like' programming, but it seems that the
> DESTROY constructor in Postgres.pm is never called. So you end up with a
> bounce of connect until postgresql will complain.
> 
> Well I'm going to debug it a little to see what it's happening.
> 
> I look around using web search engine, and seems that other people has some
> problem with mod_perl, mason and the DESTROY constructor and looking in the
> perlobj page :
> 
> When the last reference to an object goes away, the object is automatically
> destroyed. (This may even be after you exit, if you've stored references in
> global variables.)
> 
> maybe there still some reference in a persistence connection ???
> 

Wow, thanks :)

Well, what I think is going on there at least is the garbage collector
isn't able to delete it immediately because there are circular
references.

Specifically, $sys holds a reference to $sys->{parameters}, which holds
a reference back to $sys.

I am thinking we may want to create a $sys->finished() method that does
the same thing as DESTROY to alleviate these problems.

I've opened a bug on this.  I'll play with it and get finished() in
today or tomorrow along with Mark Nickel's patch.

--John