I wrote a module using cached hashes to access methods, as in the node A cacheing tied hash base class. The point is that you can access data using things like $object->{method}. After writing a moderately sided module around this, I've come across a strange bug. Depending on the way I call the method, sometimes I get a "Modification of a read-only value" error at the end of a file read.

Here's some code that reproduces the problem. Run it with the path to a file as an argument. The first way of calling the method will read and print out every line in the file, but the second way causes a fatal error, which occurs on the last line of the file (I think). 

#!/bin/perl -w

package My::Module;

use vars qw(@ISA);
use Carp;
use Tie::Hash;
@ISA = qw(Tie::StdHash);

sub TIEHASH {
    my($class) = shift;
    my($self) = { };
    bless $self, $class;
}

sub FETCH { 
    my($self, $key) = @_; 
    
    unless (exists $self->{$key}) { 
        if (my $meth = $self->can($key)) { 
            $self->{$key} = $meth->($self);
        } else { 
            warn "No method for '$key'"; 
            $self->{$key} = undef; 
        } 
    } 
    return $self->{$key}; 
} 

sub new {
    my($class) = shift;
    my(%hash);
    tie %hash, $class;
    $hash{filename} = shift;
    return \%hash;
}

sub my_method {
    my $self = shift;
    open(IN, $self->{filename}) or croak "Couldn't open file $self->{f
+ilename}: $!";
    while (<IN>) {
        print;
    }
    close IN;
}

1;

package main;

# THIS WORKS:
my $obj1 = new My::Module($ARGV[0]);
my $method = 'my_method';
print $obj1->{$method};

# THIS DOESNT WORK -- error message:
# Modification of a read-only value attempted at /home/apirkle/perl/bu
+g.pm line 41.
my $obj2 = new My::Module($ARGV[0]);
print $obj2->{$_} for (qw|my_method|);

exit;

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Any thoughts on why the second way of calling the method (in a for loop) doesn't work?

In reply to Method call to tied hash leads to file read error by Cirollo

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