Bod has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Wise Monks,

I have been scratching my head for too long here...it is time to seek your wisdom. I suspect the problem is simple and sufficiently obvious that I shall kick myself when it is revealed!

I am developing a module for internal use that manipulates blog posts. It takes a hashref from a database, manipulates the data and can return either another hashref or any of the individual pieces of data. But it's not working so I have added some debug code. It is the behaviours of this debug code that I cannot understand.

my $query = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM Blog ORDER BY created DESC"); $query->execute; my $test; while( my $bg = $query->fetchrow_hashref ) { my $blog = Bod::Blog->new($bg) or die "Blog not defined"; $test = $blog->heading; # line 152 push @blogs, $blog->hashref; }
I am getting this error:
Can't locate object method "heading" via package "main" at admin.pl line 152.

The heading method should be in the Bod::Blog namespace but the error suggests that Perl is looking for it in the main namespace. I cannot figure out why that might be!

Here is the first part of Blog.pm...

package Bod::Blog; use strict; use warnings; sub new { my ($class, $blog, $vars); $vars->{'heading_class'} ||= 'blogHead'; $vars->{'subheading_class'} ||= 'blogSubHead'; $vars->{'body_class'} ||= 'blogBody'; $vars->{'base_path'} ||= '/blog/'; $vars->{'image_path'} ||= '/images/blog/'; my $self = bless { 'blog' => $blog, 'vars' => $vars, }, $class; return $self; } sub heading { my $self = shift; return $self->{'heading'}; }

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Re: Object method in wrong namespace
by LanX (Saint) on Feb 27, 2022 at 20:42 UTC
    maybe try

    my ($class, $blog, $vars) = @_;

    instead of

    > my ($class, $blog, $vars);

    :)

    edit

    PS: shouldn't

    return $self->{'heading'};

    rather be

    return $self->{vars}{'heading'};

    ?

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

      my ($class, $blog, $vars) = @_;

      Like I said...something worthy of kicking myself!!!
      Kicking done!

      Thank you...

        > Like I said...something worthy of kicking myself!!!

        I can't say this never happened to me, too! 🤷🏽

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery