In the past I have used a 'Singleton Class' to do a similar sort of thing, something like this: 

sub new
{
   my ( $class ) = @_;
                                                                      
+          
   if (! defined $UsageDB::_instance )
   {
      $UsageDB::_instance = $class->_init();
   }
                                                                      
+          
   return $UsageDB::_instance;
}
                                                                      
+          
sub _init
{
   my ( $class ) = @_;
                                                                      
+          
   my $self = bless {}, $class;
                                                                      
+          
   # get configuration for connection

   $self->{_handle} = DBI->connect($dsn,$user,$pass, {PrintError => 1,
                                                      RaiseError => 1}
+);
   return $self;
}
                                                                      
+          
=item handle
                                                                      
+          
Return the connected DBI handle to the usage DB
                                                                      
+          
                                                                      
+          
=cut
                                                                      
+          
sub handle
{
   my ( $self ) = @_;
                                                                      
+          
   return $self->{_handle};
}

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(This is cut straight from working code so is missing part). Then each place the DB connection is needed they can call UsageDB->new() and use handle() to get the database handle.

The advantage of doing this is that the modules that use this don't have to know the implementation details at all and you don't have to interfere with any other packages namespace.

/J\

In reply to Re: Sharing DBI handler between several modules by gellyfish
in thread Sharing DBI handler between several modules by Hue-Bond

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