How do I get the server to return my new object instead of a generic Apache object. Or, how do I get the server to return my object blessed as an Apache object, instead of returning a generic Apache::Request object?

I think the short answer is, you can't/don't. No matter how hard you try, handler() will always receive a vanilla Apache object

So the next best thing would be to always start out your handlers like so:

  sub handler {
     my $r    = shift;
     my $my_r = My::Apache::Request->new($r);
     # do interesting things with $my_r
  }

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Or perhaps you can create something like the Apache->instance() method, and do something like:

   # somewhere in your code...
   my $r = My::Apache::Request->instance;

   # in My::Apache::Request;
   package My::Apache::Request;
   use base qw(Apache::Singleton); # or something like it 

   sub _new_instance {
      my $class = shift;
      return $class->new(r => Apache::Request->instance);
   }

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In reply to Re^3: Subclassing Apache::Request? by lestrrat
in thread Subclassing Apache::Request? by tadamec

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