I have come across the need to use an event driven setup called from a class method. The problem is that, when I call the class method and setup the callback, I then loose all access to the class object in the callback method. Is there any way to retain visibility to the calling classes object in the callback method?

Here is a simple example: 

package XMLParse;

use strict;
use XML::Parser;

sub new {
    my $class = shift;

    my $self = {
        'i_need_this' => 'important',
    };

    bless $self, $class;
    return $self;
}

sub parse {
    my ($self, $xmlfile) = @_;

    my $parser = XML::Parser->new(
        Handlers => {Start => \&handle_start,
                     End   => \&handle_end,
                     Char  => \&handle_char}
    );

    $parser->parsefile($xmlfile);
}

sub handle_start {
    ....    
}

sub handle_end {
    ....
}

sub handle_char {
    ....
}
1;

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In this example, I need access to the attribute 'i_need_this' in the XMLParse class object from within the xml parser callback methods. How to I go about getting at it?

In reply to Access parent class object in callback by Elijah

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