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;
}

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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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In reply to Object method in wrong namespace by Bod

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