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<EDIT> has been answered/fixed. the lc usage on a non-string causes the problem /<EDIT>


I'm at a loss as to why I observe the following behavior and how to fix it.

if an existing filehandle is passed to an object constructor via hashref, a subsequently invoked setter method triggers correctly but the stored value is a glob() rather than the filehandle, if it is passed as an argument to the same setter method it works just fine.

calling part

open(my $pfh, ">&", "STDOUT") or die("$0:ERROR Unable to redirect outp
+ut to STDOUT. ERR: $?/$!\n");

my %conf = (
        maxchilds => '20',
        waitforchilds => '180',
        mhandle => $pfh,
);

print Dumper \%conf;

my $fmo = fmanager->new(\%conf);
print Dumper $fmo;

$fmo->set_mhandle($pfh);
print Dumper $fmo;

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constructor and setter methods

sub new {
        my $class = shift;
        my $self = {};

        my %childs;

        $self = {
                _handle => undef,
                _childs => \%childs,
                waitforchilds => '120',
                maxchilds => '10',
                mhandle => undef,
        };

        bless($self,$class);

        if (@_){

                my $hash_ref = shift;
                if ( ref($hash_ref) eq "HASH"){

                        while ( my ($k,$v) = ( each %{ $hash_ref } ) )
+{
                                $k = lc $k;
                                $v = lc $v;
                                if ( exists $self->{$k} && ! ($k =~ m/
+^\_/)  ){         #is a valid config setting and is NOT a private met
+hod
                                        my $method = "set_".$k;
                                        $self->$method($v);           
+                  #call appropriate setter method

                                }else{
                                        warn("$0:WARNING: skipping uns
+upported configuration setting $k => $v in hash_ref $hash_ref\n");
                                }

                        }
                }else{
                        die("$0:ERROR: argument passed to method 'new'
+ must be reference to a hash.\n");
                }

        }

        return $self;
}



sub set_mhandle {

        my $self = shift;
        if (@_){
                my $handle = shift;
                $self->{mhandle} = $handle;
        }

        return $self->{mhandle};
}

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output

config hash

$VAR1 = {
          'mhandle' => \*{'::$pfh'},
          'waitforchilds' => '180',
          'maxchilds' => '20'
        };

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fmo-object after constructor

$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'mhandle' => 'glob(0x2161670)',
                 'waitforchilds' => 180,
                 '_handle' => undef,
                 'maxchilds' => 20,
                 '_childs' => {}
               }, 'fmanager' );

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fmo-object after manual setter call

$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'mhandle' => \*{'::$pfh'},
                 'waitforchilds' => 180,
                 '_handle' => undef,
                 'maxchilds' => 20,
                 '_childs' => {}
               }, 'fmanager' );

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Why the different behavior?

In reply to passing filehandle to contstructor by georgecarlin

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