I've been using Win32::Taskscheduler for a bit now and it has always served me well. Recently I put some of the scheduler code into a package that gets instantiated by a soap 'wrapper' . Now when I call Win32::Taskscheduler->New() I get an undefined return value.

use HTTP::Daemon::SSL;
use HTTP::Status;

use SOAP::Lite;
use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;

use auth;

  # Make sure you have a certs/ directory with "server-cert.pem"
  # and "server-key.pem" in it before running this!
  my $daemon = HTTP::Daemon::SSL->new(LocalPort => 8001)
         || die "Can't start SSH Daemon. $!\n";

    my $soap = SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server
        -> new ( )
        -> dispatch_to(qw(auth));

  print "Please contact me at: <URL:", $daemon->url, ">\n";
  while (my $conn = $daemon->accept) 
    {
      while (my $request = $conn->get_request) 
            {
                my $req =  $request->{_headers}{soapaction};

                $soap->request($request);
                $soap->handle();

                my $response = $soap->response();
                $conn->send_response($response);
      }
      $conn->close;
      undef($conn);
  }

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My task code is: 
package auth;

use strict;
use Win32::TaskScheduler;

sub new
{
    my $pkg = shift;
    my $self = {};
    bless ($self, $pkg);

    return $self;
}
sub getTaskInfo
{
    my $self = shift;
    my $scheduler = Win32::TaskScheduler->New();

        die "not defined" if ( !defined( $scheduler ));

    my %tasks;
    foreach my $tsk ($scheduler->Enum())
    {
        $scheduler->Activate($tsk);
        substr($tsk,-4,4) = '';

        $tasks{$tsk}{'status'} = -1;
        $scheduler->GetStatus($tasks{$tsk}{status});

        $tasks{$tsk}{'code'} = -1;
        $scheduler->GetExitCode($tasks{$tsk}{code});

        $tasks{$tsk}{'owner'} = $scheduler->GetAccountInformation();

        my ($ms, $sec, $min, $hour, $day, $dayofweek, $month, $year) =
+ $scheduler->GetMostRecentRunTime();
        $tasks{$tsk}{'last_ran'} = sprintf "%04d%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d",
+ $year,
            $month, $day, $hour, $min, $sec;

        ($ms, $sec, $min, $hour, $day, $dayofweek, $month, $year) = $s
+cheduler->GetNextRunTime();
        $tasks{$tsk}{'next_run'} = sprintf "%04d%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d",
+ $year,
            $month, $day, $hour, $min, $sec;

    }

    return %tasks;
}

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Its something I'm doing wrong with the SOAP wrapper code. I can instantiate and call this proc from a non-soap app and it works fine.

I looked into the 'New' method in TaskScheduler.xs. Its failing on CoCreateInstance or CoInitialize though I don't understand why.

Suggestions?

In reply to win32::taskscheduler - failure from New()? by ethrbunny

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