SPUG: OO Perl object backrefrence question

[Peter Darley]

Friends,
	I have taken a look at the weaken() function, and have a further question
about it.
	I want to use it in my objects, but I would also like to store the objects
to a database via the Apache::Session mechanism and reuse them during a
session (so I don't have to do all the complex db queries required to build
the objects every time).
	My question is this:  Will an object that comes back from stored still have
references to it's parent weaken()ed?  I took a look at how Dumper() deals
with it and it doesn't seem to weaken() the references that it gives back,
so I'm worried.  I don't know how to tell how the reference comes back from
being stored (weak or not).

Thanks,
Peter Darley

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-spug-list at pm.org [mailto:owner-spug-list at pm.org]On Behalf Of
Parr, Ryan
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 8:24 AM
To: SPUG
Subject: RE: SPUG: OO Perl object backrefrence question


There's an article by Matt Sergeant on Perl.com right now that covers
exactly this.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/07/proxyobject.html

Basically it shows how to pass a parent object to a child without creating a
circular reference.

-- Ryan


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