[ic] ActionMap breaks subcatalog

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Marty Tennison (marty at sediva.com):
> David Christensen wrote:
> > Marty,
> >
> >   
> >> When defining an ActionMap for a subcatalog, an error is produced when
> >> trying to load a page.  ActionMap does not appear to break the parent
> >> catalog, only the subs.
> >>
> >> This ActionMap is defined in both the parent and sub catalogs....
> >>
> >> ActionMap foo sub { return 1; }
> >>
> >> When the interchange server is started, all is well.  Trying to  
> >> access a
> >> page on the sub catalog produces this error.
> >>
> >> store1 /cgi-bin/store1/ Runtime error: do not know how to copy
> >> Safe=HASH(0xad7aa98) at /usr/local/interchange/lib/Vend/Util.pm line  
> >> 818.
> >>
> >> I was also able to produce a slight different error, but not sure  
> >> how...
> >>
> >> store1 /cgi-bin/store1/ Runtime error: do not know how to copy
> >> Safe=CODE(0xaf8f6c0) at /usr/local/interchange/lib/Vend/Util.pm line  
> >> 818.
> >>
> >> I have done some testing and "swapped" catalogs (made the parent the
> >> sub), the error remained.  So I think it *may* be a bug.
> >>     
> >
> > Do you have some more specific information such as your Interchange  
> > version number, the specific name of the ActionMap, and the names of  
> > the parent and subcatalogs?  Are these errors occurring on every page  
> > in the sub-catalog or only on certain pages?  Are there any other  
> > interesting messages in interchange and the catalogs' error/debug  
> > logs?  Any messages when restarting interchange?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > David
> >   
> Hi David,
> 
> My bad, I forgot to put version numbers, here they are, my apologies....
> 
> IC=5.6.1
> PERL=5.10.0
> 
> The ActionMap that causes the problem actually is...
> 
> ActionMap foo sub { return 1; }
> 
> The catalog names are "storea" and "storeb" (it's a test system)
> 
> The error occurs when I try to access index.html but it happens on any
> page as far as I can tell. 
> 
> No other errors are reported in the interchange debug.log file or the
> catalog error file. 
> 
> I'll keep digging around and see if I can get more info out of the
> system to diagnose it. 
> 
> I think it has something to do with safe.pm since the copyref function
> has a test for /HASH/

You can't define an ActionMap in a subcatalog. Nor any code reference
type, because -- as it says -- "do not know how to copy Safe=CODE(0xaf8f6c0)".

It would be conceivable to make it work, but it does not right now.

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Mike Heins
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