In lib/Controller/Root.pm I'm using a standard pattern for automatically redirecting to a login controller if a user is not logged in and the user is not running either the registration or login controllers. lib/Controller/Root.pm 
sub auto : Private {
    my ($self, $c) = @_;

    if ($c->controller eq $c->controller('Login') ||
        ## The following test eventually starts failing 
        ## while running the register controller:
        $c->controller eq $c->controller('Register') ) {
        return 1;
    }
     if (!$c->user_exists) {
        $c->response->redirect($c->uri_for('/login'));
     }
     ...

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I am tweaking CSS/JS error handling and run the Register page repeatedly with deliberate input errors (empty input field etc). After a few cycles I modify the register controller or the appropriate template/form definition.

After a while the above test fails even though I know (from Catalyst debug output) the Register controller is being invoked and control passes to the Login controller.

Once this happens, it continues to happens until I restart Catalyst. Sometimes the same thing also happens to the login controller so Catalyst loops indefinitely redirecting to the login controller.

I am running Catalyst with the -r option and have been modifying the the register controller. Is it possible that this is introducing some instability?

I can't imagine that Catalyst would be so flaky in production so I can only assume that either the -r option introduces some instability (and I can live with that) or that I am somehow corrupting Catalyst by doing something dumb.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Using Catalyst 5.7014/ CGI::FormBuilder 3.0501 / Ubuntu 8.10 on a dedicated development VM. Running catalyst with the -r option

In reply to Catalyst controller comparison fails in Root controller auto() by smallvaluesof2

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