Fellow monks,

I'm in the process of designing an application and have run into a limit of my Perl knowledge.

I'm attempting to create a handler under mod_perl that would allow me to specify different content generators based upon a configuration file or database entry. For example: 

### Config file
/foo.html = Generator::Foo
/bar.html = Generator::Bar
/foo/bar  = Generator::Baz

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The perl handler should look at the incoming URI and route the request to an instance of the appropriate object, as specified by the config file.

I knew the following was broken under strict when I wrote it, but I had to try... 

# $generator is set by reading the above config file.
my $g = $$generator->new( $r );

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Obviously, $$generator->new(...) won't work with strict, but I can't seem to reason out how to create objects like this on the fly.

I've checked out the nodes on "Dynamic loading of object-oriented plugins" and "plugins and inheritance" but I didn't seem to find anything that really answered my question.

Thanks for any help!

tadamec

In reply to "Dynamic" object creation. by tadamec

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