[Dancer-users] mime types

[damien krotkine]

Please retry with latest Dancer from devel branch, I've applied Chris
fix. Granted, it's a workaround, but it looks like it's not a bug in
MIME::Types, but in the preforking platforms. Hard to fix anyway.



On 11 February 2011 14:40, damien krotkine <dkrotkine at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> As reported by Chris,
> I think this whole thread is linked to issue GH#136. This issues was
> fixed, but the fix was then removed accidentally by an other commit.
>
> Chris has proposed to reintroduce the fix ( basically just  BEGIN {
> MIME::Types->new(only_complete => 1);  }   )
>
> He has also provided a test to check it.
>
> Please check his PR#310  ( https://github.com/sukria/Dancer/pull/310/ )
>
> I think that's all we need for now, but don't take my word for it :)
> Have a look at it, and possibly propose additional changes, or a
> better solution.
>
> In any case, it'd be good to gather the efforts on this fix
>
> Thanks
>
> On 10 February 2011 19:25, Flavio Poletti <polettix at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Oleg A. Mamontov <oleg at mamontov.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> After some debugging i found that MIME::Types (used in Dancer::MIME)
>>> read and parse mime types from it DATA handle.
>>> This handle is opening by Perl during module load procedure. But
>>> subsequent
>>> reads occured in &MIME::Types::init (which called from constructor).
>>
>> ...
>>>
>>> I propose three different solutions:
>>>
>>> 1. Remove MIME::Types from Dancer::MIME completely :)
>>>
>>> 2. Explicitly call &MIME::Types::init early (before fork):
>>>
>>>   package Dancer::MIME;
>>>   use strict;
>>>   use warnings;
>>>   use base 'Dancer::Object::Singleton';
>>>   use MIME::Types;
>>>
>>>   MIME::Types->init;
>>>
>>> 3. Use MIME::Types later (in &Dancer::MIME::init):
>>>
>>>   sub init {
>>>     my ($class, $instance) = @_;
>>>     eval "use MIME::Types";
>>>     $instance->mime_type(MIME::Types->new(only_complete => 1));
>>>     $instance->aliases({});
>>>   }
>>>
>>
>> I would dare to propose two additional potential solutions:
>> 4. Solve the issue in MIME::Type, the author is usually very responsive and
>> he should be willing to accept patches
>> 5. Investigate the possibility to use Media::Type::Simple, from the feedback
>> page of MIME::Type it seems that this module does the same things of
>> MIME::Type but with additional features.
>>
>> I can try to propose a patch for MIME::Type to MARKOV (i.e. start working on
>> solution 4).
>> Cheers,
>>     Flavio.
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