If at all, the second of your two snippets should work. And it should even work if storing arrays isn't possible because a reference behaves like a scalar in most situations. For example if you print it, it says "ARRAY(0x...)".

I notice that you write in your first post "Setting a scalar value (is_weekend) is straight from the documentation and should work". You might test that first, even documentation can have bugs. This should help get some answers:

# instead of my @o = @{ $self->get("fruit_order") || [] };
my $o= $self->get("fruit_order");
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper($o),"\n";
print ref $o,"\n";
return @$o if (ref $o eq 'ARRAY');

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In reply to Re^3: How to store an array in the store of Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module? by jethro
in thread How to store an array in the store of Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module? by brengo

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