Just to clarify what donarb is stating, here is an example of how to better structure your code:


package Bar;

use base qw(CGI::Application);

sub useful_method {
  my $self = shift;

  # do something useful here
}

1;

package Foo;

use Base qw(Bar);
# By inheriting from Bar, we also inherit everything
# that Bar inherits, so you don't need to specifically
# mention CGI::Application in package Foo, since Bar
# deals with that for you

sub setup {
  my $self = shift;
  $self->run_modes(qw(runmode1 runmode2));
}

sub runmode1 {
  my $self = shift;

  my $results = $self->useful_method();

  ...
}

1;

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So in the above example Bar would contain all of your useful methods and runmodes that all of your other application can share. Whereas Foo is the actual application that you load and run in your instance script

In reply to Re^4: CGI::Application and object inheritance by cees
in thread CGI::Application and object inheritance by spork

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