First, Marc Langheinrich did a great job on this module. It is going to meet my needs perfectly and allows a single thread to access hundres of webpages at the same time, just as advertised.

But I've ran into an issue. I'm not sure if it is because I've created a wrapper object that inherits from LWP::Parallel::UserAgent or what, but for some reason the method discard_entry doesn't appear to be deleting the entry objects. I've overloaded the on_return method and have this: 

sub on_return {
        my ($self, $request, $response, $entry) = @_;
        .....Do some work, process data, register regex'd urls......
        $self->discard_entry($entry);

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This should work, but when I Data::Dump::dump the LWP object after that call, not only is the entry still there, but the response and request objects it contained.

The discard_entry code is as follows: 

sub discard_entry {
    my ($self, $entry) = @_;
  LWP::Debug::trace("($entry)") if $entry;
    # Entries are added to ordpend_connections in $self->register:
    #    push (@{$self->{'ordpend_connections'}}, $entry);
    #
    # the reason we even maintain this ordered list is that
    # currently the user can change the "in_order" flag any
    # time, even if we already started 'wait'ing.
    my $entries = $self->{ordpend_connections};
    @$entries = grep $_ != $entry, @$entries;

    $entries = $self->{entries_by_requests};
    delete @$entries{grep $entries->{$_} == $entry, keys %$entries};

    $entries = $self->{entries_by_sockets};
    delete @$entries{grep $entries->{$_} == $entry, keys %$entries};
    return;
}

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When I test this on my own, the return from keys aren't blessed as a proper HTTP::Response type, so I don't know if the error is in the library or in how I'm using it.

In reply to LWP::Parallel::UserAgent discard_entry does not delete entry objects by perlmonkey2

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