Greetings,
I'm attempting to manipulate the $Application object from a cronjob and
need some guidance. I have a cron script which generates an object from
data which I want to embed into the session. I could write a handler
that gets called via LWP from the cron and does the required session
manipulation but I'm wondering if there's a more elegant solution. Here's what I have so far in the cronjob:
use Apache::ASP; use Apache::ASP::Application; my $object = My::App->new(); my $asp = Apache::ASP->new($a_request_object); $asp::Application->{'object'} = { object => $object };
So the question is what can I use for $a_request_object? I'm using mp2 so Apache::FakeRequest is out - any ideas?
If you want a fake Apache request object, try Apache::ASP::CGI
To see how its used, you can check out the asp-perl script. Its not really documented, but the obvious methods are pretty stable, as everything from asp-perl to the t/*.t script depend on it.
I would recommend doing an lwp-request to a real script though, as then you get to work with guaranteed APIs.
What I would really recommend is having some extra data file your cron job writes to that can be initialize in Script_OnStart, and not stored in $Application at all. $Application usage for any really big data is probably pretty slow & performance intensive.
If you are really brave, you can use MLDBM::Sync to access the files in StateDir directly. If you use MLDBM::Sync, this will be safe, if you use MLDBM, it won't be.
Regards,
Josh ________________________________________________________________ Josh Chamas, Founder phone:925-552-0128 Chamas Enterprises Inc. http://www.chamas.com NodeWorks Link Checker http://www.nodeworks.com
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