[html-formfu] out of memory errors under perl debugger

[Mario Minati]

On Tuesday 11 September 2007 22:20:29 Jim Spath wrote:
> Mario Minati wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 September 2007 20:54:09 Jim Spath wrote:
> >> Jim Spath wrote:
> >>> There seems to be a problem with running HTML::FormFu under the Perl
> >>> debugger.  The following code works perfectly fine, but when I run it
> >>> under the debugger it dies with an "Out of memory!" error.
> >>>
> >>> use HTML::FormFu;
> >>>
> >>> my $formfu = HTML::FormFu->new({
> >>>   render_class_args => {
> >>>     INCLUDE_PATH => '../../templates/formfu',
> >>>   },
> >>>   elements => [
> >>>     {
> >>>      name => 'foo',
> >>>      type => 'Text',
> >>>     },
> >>>   ],
> >>> });
> >>>
> >>> print $formfu;
> >>>
> >>> I am running HTML::FormFu version 0.01003 under Perl 5.8.7 on Ubuntu
> >>> LTS 6.06.
> >>
> >> I'm narrowed it down a bit and the "Out of memory!" error seems to occur
> >>   in HTML::FormFu::Render::base::xhtml() when we call
> >> $template->process().
> >>
> >> If it matters I am using Template 2.19.
> >
> > A few days ago I also was using the perl debugger with my Catalyst
> > application that uses FormFu (svn) and had no problems, except that it
> > told me that I am more than 100 subroutines deep in the code.
> >
> > When calling $template->process the control goes over to the
> > Template::Toolkit library. Maybe upgrading or reinstalling that library
> > helps.
> >
> > Greets,
> > Mario
>
> We are using Template Toolkit 2.19, which is the most recent version and
> we have used it quite extensively up until this point without any problems.
>
> I narrowed the problem down a bit more to the use of the ENCODING
> option.  HTML::FormFu sets it to UTF-8 by default.  If I set it to
> undef, I do not experience the problem.

It came into the code some time ago due to problems with utf8 in the form 
config files. 

> I'll let you know if I find out anything more, since I am continuing to
> debug it... thanks for the reply!

Welcome and good luck.

I think tomorrow Carl can pop in, if he's not to busy.

Greets,
Mario