[Catalyst] OT Config::General question

[Kieren Diment]

Oops, posted to impulsively.  Your solution below is the "correct"
one.  Someone needs to fix this, or at least patch their own fix into
core.

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:13:20PM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> 
> I want to set up my new PageCache configuration in a
> Config::General style. I need to change this:
> 
> __PACKAGE__->config(
>       'Plugin::PageCache' => {
>           expires => 300,
>           set_http_headers => 1,
>           auto_cache => [ '^(search)' ]
>           debug => 1,
> 
>         }
> );
> 
> into this:
> 
> <Plugin::PageCache>
> 	expires 3600
> 	set_http_headers 1
> 	auto_cache [ '^(search)' ] # uh...
> 	debug 1
> </Plugin::PageCache>
> 
> The problem is, auto_cache needs to be an arrayref even though
> there's only a single item in it, and I don't know how to
> force Config::General to interpret it this way; if it's in the
> docs, I'm missing it. Right now I get an error like
> 
>   Caught exception in engine "Can't use string ("[ '^(search)' ]")
>   as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use
> 
> I get the same error if I try to remove the brackets.
> 
> If I add another line like "auto_cache *", then things just
> work, because with two identically named lines it assumes an
> array, but I assume there has to be a way to make C::G read
> this as an arrayref?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jesse
> 
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