On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:35:47PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> Your package names should not start with a lowercase. That's
> reserved for pragmata.
Ah; I was uncertain how solid of a convention this was; I saw no
reference in the manpages on this.
> This code is unnecessarily complex. First, to create a
> subclass-overloaded ->new (for additional member variables), you
> merely need:
Thanks for that feedback; I was relying on manpages, and couldn't
come up with a good example.
> But in your case, you have *no* additional attributes (member variables),
> so you can leave your "new" entirely out, and it does The Right Thing.
Well, I do intend to introduce additional attributes; I was presenting
a simplified case to illustrate my problem.
So, arbitrarily changing my package to be 'QmailUser' instead of
'qmailUser' solves my problem by sidestepping the test in Schema.pm.
However, if I now ask Net::LDAP::Schema to list attributes for a
hypthetical LDAP object class called 'QmailUser', I still see an
error such as:
Can't use string ("QmailUser") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Net/LDAP/Entry.pm line 109, <DATA>
chunk 417.
because that test in Schema.pm still thinks that I've passed an
Net::LDAP::Entry object, which I haven't.
> Brian> So - have I miscoded here, or have I ticked a bug in Net::LDAP::Schema?
>
> If your objects cannot also respond to the entire protocol of
> the base class, then you don't have a proper derived class.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you here. I subclassed Net::LDAP::Entry,
but I'm tripping over Net::LDAP::Schema...
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