Re: Stacked Handlers Execution Chain

Geoffrey Young wrote:
> Helmut Zeilinger wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > i am using mod_perl 1.99_08.
> >
> > I have two mod_perl handlers:
> >
> > ...
> > PerlResponseHandler Test::handler0 Test::handler1
> > ...
> >
> > How can i brake the execution chain between handler0 and handler1? 
> > Whatever i try as handler0 return value (OK, DECLINED, FORBIDDEN, 404)
> > the handler1 is still executed. The documentation says, that any value
> > except DECLINED should do that.
The documentation talks about a normal (one per phase) handler, not stacked 
handlers. Which certainly should be covered in the docs as well.
> it probably should say that OK, DECLINED, or DONE will allow the chain 
> to continue.  anything else ought to immediately terminate the chain - 
> if not, it's probably a bug.  you might want to see if there is a 
> difference between returning FORBIDDEN, NOT_FOUND, and SERVER_ERROR 
> (well, their 2.0 equivalents, anyway), just to help track things down.
First of all let's clear up the 1.0 side:

Quoting the eagle book:

  The exception to this rule [all handlers will run] is if one of
  the handlers in the series returns an error code (anything other than
  OK, DECLINED, or DONE)

Though the code does *not* check for DONE:

mod_perl.c:1375
            if((status != OK) && (status != DECLINED)) {
                ...
                return status;
            }

so where is the bug? In the book or the code?

Now the 2.0 side:

Currently it runs all handlers no matter what, I'll fix that soon to do the 
same as in 1.0: i.e. checking for OK and DECLINED but not for 'DONE' to be 
consistent with 1.0.
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