I have an app I wrote using CGI::Application. Several of the run modes make a call to a certain utility method I inherit from my base class. Now this utility method can occasionally throw an error, but the error is fixable.

When I first thought of this problem the solution seemed simple: I'd just check for the error condition inside the utility function, and if I detected it, I could simply change to a run mode that fixes it. But as far as I can tell, it's impossible to change run modes like this.

So whats way to hack around this stupid limitation? I've considered modifying Application.pm it self, but unless this would change the main version at cpan this would be really irritating to have to maintain my own forked version.


Update:
If anyone cares, my solution to this problem was basically thus:

sub utility
{
  my $self = shift;
  my $query = CGI->new('rm=new_mode');
  ref($self)->new->run(QUERY=>$query);
  exit;
}
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