The module which holds together the whole cabuddle reads the configuration information and makes it available to the Connection Object.

And you are primarily concerned with how it hands that information over? I'm guessing you don't need anything much more complicated than a hash that you pass by reference. If you need to perform some operations on the data that have nothing to do with either the "module which holds together the whole cabuddle" or with the connection object which is storing this data, then you could wrap it all up in another object. (ConnectionConfig?) I doubt that's necessary though.

-sauoq
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