Hi, I am trying to store a data structure in using Apache::Session::MySQL.
The session creation and retrieval works fine for scalar values,HoH or Array etc,
but the session is not written if i try to store a tree data structure (N-ary tree http://search.cpan.org/~rkinyon/Tree-1.01/lib/Tree.pm) The code is as follows: -- 
my %session;

tie %session,'Apache::Session::MySQL', undef, { 
    DataSource => 'dbi:mysql:sessions',
   UserName => 'login',
    Password => 'pass',
    LockDataSource => 'dbi:mysql:sessions',
    LockUserName   => 'login',
    LockPassword   => 'pass' };

my $id = $session{_session_id};
$session{TIMESTAMP} =time;
$session{tree} = $treeP; ## $treeP is a N-ary Tree

$session{uname} = $uname;
untie(%session) || die " Cant untie! \n";

##-- in another code
my %session1;

tie %session1,'Apache::Session::MySQL', undef, {
    DataSource => 'dbi:mysql:sessions',
   UserName => 'login',
    Password => 'pass',
    LockDataSource => 'dbi:mysql:sessions',
    LockUserName   => 'login',
    LockPassword   => 'pass' };


my $u = $session1{uname}; ## this value is undef if I try to store the
+ tree as well in the above code

print STDERR "name $u \n"; 
untie(%session1) or die "CANT CLOSE!! \n";

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Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance...

cheers!

In reply to Apache::Session help storing a complex data structure by B-A-T

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