The things I'm trying to do seem a little more advanced than general mod_perl stuff, but nothing that should require delving into the C and XS code.

uh, right. you don't need to delve into C/XS. Whatever gave you that idea?

If you want to create objects to handle generating content, just create a handler that instantiates an object: 

  package My::Handler;
  sub handler
  {
     my $r = shift;

     # translate from URL to package name, and the "action"
     # that you want to perform
     my($pkg, $action) = figure_out_package_name($r->uri);
     
     # instantiate, and call the appropriate handler
     my $obj = $pkg->new();
     $obj->dispatch($action);
  }

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Meanwhile, if you still insist on subclassing Apache (which, I'm starting to think could be useful, but is still parallel to what you are trying to solve), you could just add a hook to do so in the dispatch() method above:


  sub dispatch
  {
     my($self, $action) = @_;
     my $my_r = My::Apache::Request->new(Apache->request);
     $self->do_the_appropriate_thing($action, $my_r);
  }

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Then when you write code for the actual objects that handle the request, you can safely assume that you will get the appropriate request object. No?

In reply to Re^5: Subclassing Apache::Request? by lestrrat
in thread Subclassing Apache::Request? by tadamec

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