Old and Wise Monks,

I have come up with an interesting solution (I hope) to a tricky problem. I've almost got it but just need some advice.

I have a class, let's call it BigDB. I would like to dynamically generate object method names for a BigDB instance based upon some stuff read in from a file. Within the BigDB constructor, I say: 

my $self = {};  # hash ref
...
foreach my $method (@method_names_from_file) {
   $self->{$method} = makeCommandSub($stuff);
}

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And within makeCommandSub(), I am creating a code ref and returning it: 
my $code = sub {
   my $self = shift;
   print "Dang, it worked.\n";
};
return $code;

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So, I go ahead and create my new BigDB() object and everything seems to go fine. My debugger shows me that my new object $myDB now has CODE type fields: 
$myDB           <hash>
   ->{method1}  <CODE>
   ->{method2}  <CODE>

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Alas, when I try to run these CODE blocks as I would a method, it doesn't work. 
$myDB->method1();

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yields... 
Can't locate object method "method1" via package "BigDB" at line...

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I have also tried &{$myDB->method1}. I AM able to run normal subroutines within the BigDB class.

So what's the proper way (if any) to execute these CODE refs in my object/hash ?

Much thanks

-zaven.pl

In reply to Dynamically Creating (and Calling) Object Methods by zaven

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