[Webtek-devel] Session methods

[Adrian S. <adr...@gm...>]

I thought it would be nice to be able to define my own methods on the
Session class. In other frameworks, it's possible to subclass the Session
class, add extra attributes (not necessary in the case of WebTek) and add
extra methods.

I thought it might be nice if this happened automatically. So I added code
in the Session class to check for the existance of an AppName::Session. If
it's there, it's used, otherwise the standard WebTek::Session is used.

However, i didn't get on very well. Firstly the AppName::Session is not
automatically loaded (AppName::Classname is not loaded;
AppName::Package::Classname is, which I didn't expect), and then I had a
problem where the compiler went into an infinite loop when I tried to
automatically load the class from somewhere else (I've no idea why) and so I
gave up on automatic loading and put "use AppName::Session" in the
Handler.pm. The module is loaded, but now I get the error:

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to
your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1' in
delete from session where

I.e. it tries to execute the statement "delete from session where" with no
where condition, as far as I can see.

Well, I shall continue trying tomorrow. Currently I have spent about 2 hours
on this feature. It is just to display a different text if a certain
condition is true, if certain attributes are set on the session at the same
time, i.e. all I need is one utility method actually! Maybe I can give up on
this approach if it is not possible, and e.g. put the utility method
somewhere else e.g. global function somewhere.

Do you have any advice on this matter?

Thanks, Adrian