Re: Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method is no longer allowed with Perl 5.34.

Updated Preface:

I understand your question as the desire to use the same AUTOLOAD in different files/packages.

And I presume you already tried the obvious - importing - and it failed.

main

> *AUTOLOAD = \&BASE_CLASS::AUTOLOAD; #this doesn't seem to work

one guess: did you put this in a BEGIN {} block?

untested since you didn't provide an SSCCE to reproduce it and the concept really looks like *a terrible hack*...

edit

A more terrible hack would be to do

BEGIN {
eval <<"__CODE__";
sub AUTOLOAD {
   $BODY_OF_ORIG_AUTOLOAD
}
__CODE__
}
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like this the AUTOLAD could be indistiguishible from a real autoload

edit

BEGIN { require "The_Autoload.pl"; }

with

sub AUTOLOAD {
   ...            # Body of Autoload
}
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inside.

again untested for mentioned reasons

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

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Re^2: Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method is no longer allowed with Perl 5.34. by Anonymous Monk on Sep 27, 2021 at 15:03 UTC
Hi, I have tried moving *AUTOLOAD = \&BASE_CLASS::AUTOLOAD; to BEGIN {} block, it's not working. Note that i am having perl 5.34. using require for that particular .pl file seems working for me, but i have to modify all such instances for the same. i am looking for better solution. Thank you	[reply]
Re^3: Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method is no longer allowed with Perl 5.34. by LanX (Saint) on Sep 27, 2021 at 17:20 UTC
> Hi, I have tried moving AUTOLOAD = \&BASE_CLASS::AUTOLOAD; to BEGIN {} block, it's not working.* but that's the documented solution in perldelta. Where is your SSCCE to reproduce your problem? Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re^4: Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method is no longer allowed with Perl 5.34. by Anonymous Monk on Sep 27, 2021 at 18:39 UTC
Hi, my code looks below, please ignore previous comment ##script homepage.pl #this script has been located in cgi folder where + it also has SUBS/APP folder package homepage; our ($AUTOLOAD_DEFINED); # This isn't necessary, but without it you ge +t a warning when perl uses UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD if (!$AUTOLOAD_DEFINED) # (from lib.pl): "Use of inherited AUTOLOAD f +or non-method...". (search for that warning { # text in 'perldoc perldiag' for more info. AUTOLOAD = \&APP::AUTOLOAD; $AUTOLOAD_DEFINED = 1; } # # #below is the non-method called from the perl file (getStatuses.pl) lo +cated at cgi/SUBS/APP/Statues @Statuses = &APP::Statuses::getStatuses({IsResolvedFlag =>1}); #here + is is failing to autoload the script getStatuses.pl. [download] In other script (lib.pl) where AUTOLOAD function is defined which would control the autoloading part, it also has below line outside of AUTOLOAD function `# use APP package's AUTOLOAD for all packages that don't have their ow +n UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD = \&APP::AUTOLOAD;` [download] Note : I cant see anywhere autoLoader module has been used instead AUTOLOAD function has been written. I hope this helps you to understand the scenario. Thank you	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method is no longer allowed with Perl 5.34. by LanX (Saint) on Sep 28, 2021 at 00:35 UTC
Re^6: Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method is no longer allowed with Perl 5.34. by Anonymous Monk on Sep 28, 2021 at 18:07 UTC
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Re^3: Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method is no longer allowed with Perl 5.34. by LanX (Saint) on Sep 27, 2021 at 15:08 UTC
> but i have to modify all such instances for the same same with `*AUTOLOAD = \&BASE_CLASS::AUTOLOAD;` (shrug) ! I know many dirty workarounds° in Perl but I doubt what you want is possible or even desirable. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery} °) well as always with Perl ... provided the base class is directly `use`d one could try a source filter to inject `sub AUTOLOAD` in the importing file. But I wanna be damned before showing how...	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method is no longer allowed with Perl 5.34. by LanX (Saint) on Sep 27, 2021 at 17:07 UTC
FWIW: an even less stable hack would be to write something like an 'INIT {}' or 'CHECK{ }' block to indentify all defined packages/classes after compilation which inherit from the `BASE_CLASS::` ( see `->isa` in `UNIVERSAL` ) all those packages could then have a new AUTOLOAD added via eval. this will not work in all cases because those timing issues in Perl are highly flexible: a sub could have been called before compilation finished. a class could be defined dynamically afterwards at runtime ... Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l] [select]