On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 05:25:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> well, since we have been on a feature frenzy i thought i would toss in
> this one to the sharks.
>
> when i have made a serious problem in setting up a callback, event
> generates errors in a loop. i know i should use a $Event::DIED handler
> to deal with this but i think it should wrok better by default. infinite
> error messages is not a good defautl choice IMO. a single error with a
> hard exit would be better to my taste.
Actually, turning errors into warnings is a *feature*. I've had servers
in production that start crashing and alert the user. Then I go in with
ProcessTop and, without restarting, work around the problem. The user
is impressed.
> i will be adding code to verify the object and method exists before
> setting the callback so this will eliminate some potential problems i
> hope.
If your going to be an Event crash dummy, I might as well try to inject
foam into the walls. How does this look? Are lexical warnings
extensible?
--
"May the best description of competition prevail."
via, but not speaking for Deutsche Bank
==== //depot/D/Event/c/watcher.c#39 - /cache/D/Event/c/watcher.c ====
--- /tmp/tmp.15790.0 Tue Feb 8 17:46:55 2000
+++ /cache/D/Event/c/watcher.c Tue Feb 8 17:43:34 2000
@@ -105,8 +105,31 @@
ev->callback = SvREFCNT_inc(nval);
} else if (SvROK(nval) &&
(SvTYPE(av=(AV*)SvRV(nval)) == SVt_PVAV) &&
- av_len(av) == 1 &&
- !SvROK(sv=*av_fetch(av, 1, 0))) {
+ av_len(av) == 1) {
+ /* method lookup code adapted from universal.c */
+ STRLEN n_a;
+ SV *pkgsv = *av_fetch(av, 0, 0);
+ HV *pkg = NULL;
+ SV *namesv = *av_fetch(av, 1, 0);
+ char *name = SvPV(namesv, n_a);
+ int ok=0;
+ if(SvROK(pkgsv)) {
+ pkgsv = (SV*)SvRV(pkgsv);
+ if(SvOBJECT(pkgsv))
+ pkg = SvSTASH(pkgsv);
+ }
+ else {
+ pkg = gv_stashsv(pkgsv, FALSE);
+ }
+ if (pkg) {
+ GV *gv = gv_fetchmethod_autoload(pkg, name, FALSE);
+ if (gv && isGV(gv))
+ ok=1;
+ }
+ if (!ok) {
+ warn("Event: callback method %s->%s doesn't exist",
+ HvNAME(pkg), name);
+ }
WaPERLCB_on(ev);
ev->callback = SvREFCNT_inc(nval);
} else {
==== //depot/D/Event/t/callback.t#3 - /cache/D/Event/t/callback.t ====
--- /tmp/tmp.15790.1 Tue Feb 8 17:46:55 2000
+++ /cache/D/Event/t/callback.t Tue Feb 8 17:46:38 2000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
use strict;
use Test; plan tests => 3;
-use Event 0.53;
+use Event 0.65;
my $invoked_method=0;
sub method {
@@ -13,10 +13,14 @@
Event->timer(after => 0, cb => \&method);
Event->timer(after => 0, cb => ['main', 'method']);
Event->timer(after => 0, cb => [$main, 'method']);
+{
+ local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {
+ ok $_[0], '/nomethod/';
+ };
+ Event->timer(after => 0, cb => [$main, 'nomethod'])->cancel;
+}
eval { Event->timer(after => 0, cb => ['main']); };
-ok $@, '/Callback/';
-eval { Event->timer(after => 0, cb => ['main', \&method]); };
ok $@, '/Callback/';
Event::loop();
