[Catalyst] Best way to have the controller do something just one time

[A. Pagaltzis]

* Jonathan Rockway <jon at jrock.us> [2006-09-03 09:10]:
> As a last resort, if you want the method to be called the first
> time begin() is called, you can simply remove your begin from
> the symbol table the first time through:
> 
> sub begin {
>    ...
>    undef $PACKAGE::{begin}
> }

Uh… you’re undefining the package-global $begin there. I don’t
think that’s what you wanted.

You mean:

    undef *{ __PACKAGE__ . "::begin" };

Or this:

    undef *{ ( caller 0 )[3] };

Or maybe set the whole thing up like so:

    BEGIN {
        my $slot = \*begin;
        *$slot = sub {
            # ...
            undef *$slot;
        }
    }

Saves you from having to index into the symbol table using a
string key.

But whichever you pick, if I were a Java guy, I’d be snickering
even harder at that than at the other hackery.

Regards,
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