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Re^5: method chaining fails where separate method calls succeed in DBIx::Simple (XS, tests)

by metaperl (Curate)
on Aug 16, 2011 at 16:17 UTC ( [id://920515]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^4: method chaining fails where separate method calls succeed in DBIx::Simple (XS, tests)
in thread method chaining fails where separate method calls succeed in DBIx::Simple

So it would be good to provide some complete, stand-alone code that reproduces this problem so it can at least be added to the test suite for the module (probably marked "to-do" for now).
OK here it is. (github link may be preferred because perlmonks wraps the code). And thank you for your polite reply to my issue. As long as others can confirm what I'm demonstrating, and then fix it, by getting rid of the quoting on line 165, then I will report it as a bug
{ package Util; sub dbconnect { use DBI; DBI->connect('dbi:SQLite:temp.db'); } } { package Local::DBIx::Simple::Q; use Moose; has 'q' => ( is => 'rw', default => sub { $main::backgroundqueue } + ); has 'standard' => ( is => 'rw', default => 0 ); use Data::Dumper; sub BUILD { my ($self) = @_; $main::globalstandardconnection = $self->standard } sub enq { my ( $self, @arg ) = @_; warn sprintf "Enqueing with id %d this data: %s", $self->enq_i +d, Dumper( \@arg ); $self->q->enqueue( [ $self->enq_id, @arg ] ); } } { package Local::DBIx::Simple; use Moose; extends qw(Local::DBIx::Simple::Q); use DBIx::Simple; has 'enq_id' => ( is => 'rw', default => 5 ); has 'deq_id' => ( is => 'rw', default => 6 ); sub dbh { Util::dbconnect; } sub dbs { my ($self) = @_; my $dbs = DBIx::Simple->connect( $self->dbh ); } } { package main; use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use Test::More; use lib 'lib'; sub constructor { Local::DBIx::Simple->new( standard => 0 ); } sub create_database { my ($dbh) = @_; my $ddl = <<'EODDL'; create table table_one ( col1 integer not null primary key, col2 TEXT ) EODDL $dbh->do($ddl); } sub main { my $dbh = Util::dbconnect; create_database($dbh); my $Q = "SELECT * FROM table_one"; my $desired_class = 'DBIx::Simple::Statement'; my $desired_desc = "object isa $desired_class"; { # CASE 1 - successful my $s = constructor; my $dbs = DBIx::Simple->connect( $s->dbh ); my $r = $dbs->query($Q); warn sprintf 'Result of DBIx::Simple query: %s', Dumper($r +); my $h = $r->hashes; warn sprintf 'Hashes? %s', Dumper($h); ok( $r->{st}->isa($desired_class), $desired_desc ); } { # CASE 2 - successful my $s = constructor; my $dbs = $s->dbs; my $r = $dbs->query($Q); warn sprintf 'Result of DBIx::Simple-from-Local query: %s' +, Dumper($r); my $h = $r->hashes; warn sprintf 'Hashes? %s', Dumper($h); ok( $r->{st}->isa($desired_class), $desired_desc ); } { # CASE 3 - *FAILS* when $self is quoted on line 165 my $s = constructor; my $r = $s->dbs->query($Q); ok( $r->{st}->isa($desired_class), $desired_desc ); } } } main() unless caller; 1;




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Re^6: method chaining fails where separate method calls succeed in DBIx::Simple (Moose)
by tye (Sage) on Aug 16, 2011 at 16:46 UTC

    So, if you take Moose out of the picture, does the problem go away? That would be the first place I would suggest slicing the problem to narrow down the source (of the real bug that is exposed by the quoting of $self).

    Though, I suspect trying that will point the finger at Moose not away from it. And finding a bug in the huge volumes of code that Moose pulls in could be a daunting task. But it doesn't look like your test case uses a lot of Moose features, so, if Moose appears required to reproduce the problem, then you can probably start cutting out bits on that side to narrow things down much smaller than just "something Moose requires".

    For example, try replacing Moose with Mouse and see if the problem still exists.

    - tye        

        Having a runnable test case that didn't require spending hours trying to get stuff installed helped clarify the described problem.

        The basic problem is that the DBIx::Simple object [returned from dbs()] gets destroyed after the DBIx::Simple::Statement object is created [and returned by query()] but before it can be used.

        It wasn't, as I initially misunderstood, that the DBIx::Simple::Statement object is actually being DESTROYed before it can be used.

        DBIx::Simple goes to some significant lengths to make all DBIx::Simple::Statement objects suddenly become unusable as soon as their parent DBIx::Simple object is destroyed.

        I don't pretend to know why this strange lifecycle interplay is implemented or even whether or not it is a good idea.

        But thwarting that part of the module design by inducing circular references such that things just never get destroyed is not what I would call a "bug fix", nor "wise".

        Here is an abbreviated summary of the differences between runs of your test cases with one I added with and without the "fix" of not quoting $self (matching lines are prefixed with "=" to aid comparison):

        Which shows that the 'fix' does indeed prevent a bunch of stuff from being cleaned up until Perl's "global destruction".

        Here is my modified test code. The modifications I made to DBIx::Simple are left as a trivial exercise for the reader:

        The test case I added makes it clearer how the lifecycle interplay designed into the module is violated:

        warn "Starting CASE 4"; { # CASE 4 - also fails my $s = constructor; my $r; { my $dbs = $s->dbs; $r = $dbs->query($Q); warn sprintf 'Result of DBIx::Simple-from-Local query: + %s', Dumper($r); } my $h = $r->hashes; warn sprintf 'Hashes? %s', Dumper($h); ok( $r->{st}->isa($desired_class), $desired_desc ); }

        - tye        

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