dear brothers and sisters,

while using CGI::Session I learned about Safe.pm. It's used in CGI::Session to savely eval stuff that has been written by Data::Dumper. This works great with normal data structures, but not with objects.

Say I have a Data::Dumper - string containing (among other stuff) an object: 

$string = <<'EOM';
    $data = {
          'person' => bless( [
                       42
                     ], 'Person' )
        };
EOM

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When I reval this string like so... 

my $mysafe = Safe->new("MySafe");
$mysafe->reval($string);

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...I get a proper object of class Person, but I can't call any of the methods:

Can't locate object method "method" via package "Person" (perhaps you forgot to load "Person"?)

Why is that? Is that a bug or a feature?

P.S. The full code is available 

--
Brigitte    'I never met a chocolate I didnt like'    Jellinek
http://www.horus.com/~bjelli/         http://perlwelt.horus.at

In reply to reval in Safe.pm and objects by bjelli

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