Please don't cross post.
Peter Rabbitson wrote:
> I have a strange problem where a database handle is being destroyed for no
> apparent reason. My initial idea was to parse some xml, and translate it
> into a database. Deleting line after line of code I came up with this short
> meaningles program which exhibits the same behavior as its real-life
> sibling (tested against two different mysql instalations on different
> machines):
>
> use warnings;
> use strict;
> use DBI;
> use XML::Twig;
>
> ++$|; #so I can see the progress in _dummy ()
>
> my $dbh = DBI->connect ( "dbi:mysql:$random_db:localhost",
> $user,
> $pass,
> { AutoCommit => 0,
> RaiseError => 1,
> PrintError => 0,
> }
> );
>
> unless ($dbh) {
> print "Unable to connect:\n$DBI::errstr\n";
> exit 1;
> };
>
> eval { $dbh->do ("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS some_nonexistant_table") };
> die ($@) if $@;
>
> my $objinfo_parser = XML::Twig->new (
> twig_handlers => {
> 'Products/Product' => \&_dummy
> }
> );
> $objinfo_parser->parseurl ('http://www.3btech.net/3btech/objinfo.xml');
>
> $dbh->commit;
> $dbh->disconnect;
>
> exit 0;
>
> sub _dummy {
> my ($twig, $child) = @_;
> print '.';
> $twig->purge();
> return 'dummy';
> }
>
> Note that I am not even doing any real operations on the MySQL side, thus I
> don't care what database I connect to. I put the DROP TABLE there just to
> make sure that commands are reaching the server, and yes I can see that in
> the logs.
> If I run the real program I end up stuffing about 480 out of roughly 510
> products into a designated table and then the handle goes out to lunch with
> the same error message.
What's the error message?
http://danconia.org
> I use the very same XML::Twig setup in another script that packs results
> into a hash and returns it, and everything works flawlessly. Any help is
> priceless, as after nearly two days playing with this I am totally lost...
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter
>
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