DESTROY issues

[Henrik Pauli]

Hello,

I'm using AnyEvent inside Gtk2's main loop, for HTTP RPC that doesn't
block the UI.  For certain reasons such as an ancient GTK+, I couldn't
use Gtk's own libsoup for this but AnyEvent::HTTP seems to work just fine.

Except when I'm quitting the app, sometimes (but not always), I get the
following traceback:

== Stack trace ==
AnyEvent/Handle.pm:2163, module AnyEvent::Handle, sub main::__ANON__
AnyEvent/Handle.pm:2185, module AnyEvent::Handle, sub
AnyEvent::Handle::_freetls
calgo:0, module main, sub AnyEvent::Handle::DESTROY
calgo:0, module main, sub (eval)

== Croak message ==
Can't call method "_put_session" on an undefined value at
AnyEvent/Handle.pm line 2163 during global destruction.

Yeah, so last time I reported weird behaviour due to our DIE handler not
working well inside evals, and you pointed it out to me that the DIE
handler was broken, so I did attempt to fix it and the problems are
indeed gone.  Not sure if it's still broken, but right now this is the
only unexplainable croaking from it.

I have a little object $api that implements a single call() method that
simplifies the RPC/API calls.  Within itself, it uses AnyEvent::HTTP and
some non-communication internals of the LWP bundle to more easily manage
HTTP requests and responses, and to implement Digest authentication.

$api is instantiated once, and gets destroyed at the end.  I guess this
is when this discrepancy happens about the destroying of the underlying
AnyEvent::Handle.

I'm curious about what I could do to guard against it — maybe by
manually destroying the handle before exiting, something along those
lines.  So, any ideas?


Thanks,
H.