[Catalyst] Session, DateTime and Storable

[Ruben Fonseca]

On 2008/01/01, at 04:57, Christopher Laco wrote:

> I've heard mention of this before, but I can't find the thread.
> I have the latest DateTime, Storable and
> Catalyst::Plugin::Session/Authentication and I've getting heap of  
> these
> in my logs:
>
>> Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at blib/lib/ 
>> Storable.pm (autosplit into blib/lib/auto/Storable/_freeze.al)  
>> line 339.
>
> This seems to be caused by storaing a DateTime object in the  
> session. If
> I store a string instead of a DT instance, the warnings go away.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on this one?

The only thing I can tell you about this is: STAY WAY FROM  
SERIALIZING DATETIME INTO STORABLE!

I've had a project that did that, and I had tons of problems, some  
like the warnings you mentioned and others resulting in real 'dies'.

I've asked this mailling list without any good tip. I was so angry  
then that I solved my problem once and for all by storing the  
individual parts of datetime in the storable (month, day, year, ....).

Probably the stupidest solution, but it solved my problems after 1  
month of battle.

Ruben

>
> -=Chris
>
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