Dear Monks,

I thought I understood how SUPER works - but today I tried to override a method in a CDBI object, and things didn't happen as I expected.

I have a My::User.pm, which (among other columns), has a Password column. Since I'm hashing the password, I wanted to able to call $u->password("secret"), and have it stored in the database automatically hashed. So in my User.pm module, I tried to override the password method:

sub password {
  my $self = shift;

  if (@_) { # we're setting a value
    $_[0] = Digest::MD5::md5_base64($_[0]);
  }

  return $self->SUPER::password(@_);
}

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But when I try this, I get the following error: 

Can't locate object method "password" via package "My::User" at My/Use
+r.pm line 37.

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So I have two questions:

  1. What am I doing wrong with the SUPER call?
  2. I'm sure this can be done with triggers - is "before_set_password" the only one I need to set?

Thanks!

-- zigdon

In reply to (z) SUPER and Class::DBI by zigdon

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