mod_perl / Mason syntax errors silently ignored

tomazos has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm working on a Linux / Apache / mod_perl2 / HTML::Mason site and am having a problem getting error reports when a used perl module is not compiling (due to syntax errors for example).

As a test, I wrote a file with syntax errors, "MyTestGarbage.pm" and placed it in my library path.

When I use MyTestGarbage; from a normal .pl script it dies during compilation complaining of syntax errors as expected.

However when I include it from the <%init> section of a Mason component, Mason (or mod_perl) silently ignore the errors and keep running.

I don't find out it hasn't loaded until I actually try to use the syntax errored module and find missing functions in its namespace.

I've tested die and warn and they show up just fine in the apache logs or the mason-generated error response page.

Does anyone have any idea why the module's compilation problems are not being reported, and if there is a way to see them?

Thanks,
Andrew.

Andrew Tomazos | andrew@tomazos.com | www.tomazos.com

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Re: mod_perl / Mason syntax errors silently ignored by Anonymous Monk on Sep 28, 2008 at 08:43 UTC
Maybe you've got an autohandler/dhandler that ignores errors? Restart apache? http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/HTML-Mason-1.40/lib/HTML/Mason/Admin.pod#ERROR_REPORTING_AND_EXCEPTIONS	[reply]
Re: mod_perl / Mason syntax errors silently ignored by andreas1234567 (Vicar) on Sep 29, 2008 at 06:11 UTC
However when I include it from the `<%init>` section of a Mason component, Mason (or mod_perl) silently ignore the errors and keep running. Does moving the `use` statements to the autohandler mitigate the problem? -- No matter how great and destructive your problems may seem now, remember, you've probably only seen the tip of them. [1]	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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