in reply to Caching File-based Config across many sessions

if you put your config-data in a hashtable there's an easy way for you:

package MyApp::Config;
use strict;
use vars qw/%appdata/;
%appdata = ( key_1 => value_1,
             [...]
             key_n => value_n
           );

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startup.pl: 
use MyApp::Config;

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later in your cgi-scripts: 
our %appdata;
*appdata = \%MyApp::Config::appdata;

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Re^2: Caching File-based Config across many sessions
by mpeters (Chaplain) on May 01, 2007 at 01:13 UTC

    This won't work right in mod_perl by itself since changes to the config package will require a restart of the server which the OP said he didn't want.

    What will work is doing the above with Apache::Reload. And to reduce the impact of Apache::Reload on the rest of your modules you can restrict it to just check this one config package.


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