[RADIATOR] Using Storable in a hook

[Heikki Vatiainen]

On 01/25/2012 05:44 AM, Jared Watkins wrote:

> 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'}.

Try @{$p->{Attributes}} if you want to access the attribute array
instead of reference. Maybe you are already doing this, but I thought
I'd check. Also Data::Dumper has sometimes been quite helpful figuring
out how various items are composed.

> 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. 

Hard to tell. I have not tried this myself.

Please keep us posted how it goes.

Thanks!
Heikki

> 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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Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server
anywhere. SQL, proxy, DBM, files, LDAP, NIS+, password, NT, Emerald,
Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external, Active Directory, EAP, TLS,
TTLS, PEAP, TNC, WiMAX, RSA, Vasco, Yubikey, MOTP, HOTP, TOTP,
DIAMETER etc. Full source on Unix, Windows, MacOSX, Solaris, VMS,
NetWare etc.