Good idea...I like it...

But, I'm not familiar with "use parent", and apparently neither is my server (this server is on Perl 5.8.8). I also tried "use base" and a plain old ISA on it, but they didn't work either--although they errored in a different way. :)

package Mason::MyDynHandler;

our @ISA = qw(HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler);

use HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler;

sub handler
{
    my($r) = @_;
    
    my $output = '% print STDERR "$m->session\n"; \n alert("foo");'; 
    my $ah = HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler->handler($r);
    my $mi = $ah->interp;

    my $c = $mi->make_component(comp_source => $output);
    my $realOutput = $mi->exec($c);
    
    print $realOutput; 
    
    return OK;    
    
}
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With errors:

[Thu Feb  9 17:28:39 2012] [error] [Mason] File does not exist: /somep
+ath/foo.dynjs
[Thu Feb  9 17:28:39 2012] [error] Can't call method "interp" without 
+a package or object reference at ../Mason/MyDynHandler.pm line 43.\n
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the file does not exist is because foo.dynjs is still a virtual file. And line 43 is "my $mi = $ah->interp;". I can move the problem by replacing $mi with $ah, but it isn't set up correctly, clearly.

... the file does not exist ...

Ah, right, in that case see handle_request/prepare_request in http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DROLSKY/HTML-Mason-1.48/lib/HTML/Mason/ApacheHandler.pm

prepare_requests tries to resolve a component to a filename from the path -- copy/paste this function, delete the path resolving part, and define

my $comp_path =  $interp->make_component( comp_source => $output);
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This was a good idea, too. But I can't seem to satisfy all of voodoo going on (Apache::Filter instead of HTML::Mason::Requset, then can't find isa_mason_exception, etc.). Sigh.

I have to give up for now. I have other work to do and this was supposed to be a quick "what-if" that turned into many more hours than intended.

I'll probably end up making the script generator code smarter and avoid any Mason tags. Too bad, though.

thanks
jason.