joes 2004/01/14 21:05:56
Modified: glue/perl/xsbuilder/Apache/Request Request_pod Log: Add Geoff's doc patch for Apache::Request::instance() Revision Changes Path 1.7 +14 -0 httpd-apreq-2/glue/perl/xsbuilder/Apache/Request/Request_pod Index: Request_pod =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/httpd-apreq-2/glue/perl/xsbuilder/Apache/Request/Request_pod,v retrieving revision 1.6 retrieving revision 1.7 diff -u -r1.6 -r1.7 --- Request_pod 16 Nov 2003 03:29:14 -0000 1.6 +++ Request_pod 15 Jan 2004 05:05:56 -0000 1.7 @@ -85,6 +85,20 @@ =back +=head2 instance + +The default (and only) behavior of I<Apache::Request> is to intelligently +cache B<POST> data for the duration of the request. Thus there is no longer +the need for a separate C<instance()> method as existed in I<Apache::Request> +for Apache 1.3 - all B<POST> data is always available from each and every +I<Apache::Request> object created during the request's lifetime. + +If you need an C<instance()> method to make ease the pains of porting to +Apache 2.0, you can add this shortcut to your C<startup.pl>: + + use Apache::Request; + *Apache::Request::instance = \&Apache::Request::new; + =head2 param Get or set (TODO) the request parameters (using case-insensitive keys) by
