[RADIATOR] Using Storable in a hook

[Jared Watkins]

I figured out that I have to call it directly like Storable::nfreeze(\%x) but the error I was getting for other way was:

Bizarre copy of HASH in refgen at

Now.. I'm passing the value in as a bound parameter in the hook and according to a length call on the variable.. it's going in with an average length of 1450 bytes.  However.. when I fetch it from the database (postgres) I'm only getting back 3 bytes.

I'm using just the attributes list out of the $p variable by $p->{'Attributes'}.

I've done binary data through DBI before (to mysql) without a problem.. so I'm not sure where it might be getting lost here. 

Thanks,
Jared


On Jan 24, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:

> On 01/24/2012 10:44 PM, Jared Watkins wrote:
> 
>> I'm seeing some weird errors and behavior trying to use the freeze method from Storable.  Is there a special trick to making it work in hook code? 
> 
> I have not used Storable myself, but if you could reply with some
> examples I can take a a look.
> 
> Note that some of the data structures, such as radius requests ($p
> usually) are very large. You could see e.g. with Data::Dumper to see
> what they look like.
> 
>> I saw a reference on the cpan page for special handling when used in a 'Safe' compartment.. is that what's happening here?   For reference.. for development/debugging I'm attempting to serialize and store (in db field) a hash I'm creating with all the per packet name-value pairs.
> 
> Hard to tell. Examples would be useful :)
> 
> Thanks!
> Heikki
> 
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