[Catalyst] auth::DBIC & session problems

[Matt S Trout]

leonard.a.jaffe at jpmchase.com wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk>
> 
>  > leonard.a.jaffe at jpmchase.com wrote:
>  > >  The problem
>  > > lies inside the serialization of the DBIC object, which means I 
> should not
>  > > be the only person seeing this error message.
>  >
>  > Auth::Store::DBIC doesn't store the DBIC object into the session, 
> only the
>  > user id. If there's a DBIC object going into the session it's almost 
> certainly
>  > you putting it there :)
> 
> 
> The default behavior of session and auth used together to the stick the 
> user
> in the session.
> 
>  From C::P::Authentication.pm:
> 
> 
> sub set_authenticated {
>     my ( $c, $user ) = @_;
>     $c->user($user);
>     $c->request->{user} = $user;    # compatibility kludge
>     if (    $c->isa("Catalyst::Plugin::Session")
>         and $c->config->{authentication}{use_session}
>         and $user->supports("session") )
>     {
>         $c->save_user_in_session($user);
>     }
>     $c->NEXT::set_authenticated($user);
> }

save_user_in_session calls $user->for_session, which in Auth::Store::DBIC 
returns $obj->id

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