[Catalyst] c->user_exists causes runtime error.

[Wade.Stuart at fallon.com]

Are you running  C::P::Auth v0.09?  I think that error was happening to
people running v0.08...





catalyst-bounces at lists.rawmode.org wrote on 08/02/2006 11:51:31 AM:

>
> Cats:
>
> The following code snippet:
>
> unless ($c->user_exists) {
>      my $standardid = $c->request->header('standardid') ||
> $c->request->param('laj');
>      unless ($c->login(uc($standardid))) {
>         $c->error("Could not authenitcate".  ($standardid ?  ":
> $standardid" : 'UNKNOWN')  );
>        return 0;
>      }
>   }
>
> Generates the following error message:
>
> [error] Coldn't render template "undef error - Can't call method
> "from_session" on an undefined value at D:
> /Perl/site/lib/Catalyst\Plugin\Authentication.pm line 122.
> [error] Caught exception in dtsis::Controller::Root->auto "Can't
> call method "from_session" on an undefined value at D:
> /Perl/site/lib/Catalyst\Plugin\Authentication.pm line 122.
> [error] Coldn't render template "undef error - Can't call method
> "from_session" on an undefined value at D:
> /Perl/site/lib/Catalyst\Plugin\Authentication.pm line 122.
>
> along with a debug screen.
>
> What I don't understand, is why it blow up, because the same code
> snippet, with the outermost unless removed (so it calls login on
> every request) works just fine.
>
> I'm using the most current set of authn/'session modules that have
> come through CPAN in last day or two,
> and I'm using Session::Store::DBIC, Authentication::Store::Minimal
> (due to a DBIC/session/freeze issue with
> the user record, that I'd posted about already), and
Session::State::Cookie.
>
> So, calling login each time is not a big deal for me in terms of
> resource usage, but obviously, I shouldn't really have to.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Len.
>
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