Hi there,
I am trying to setup a system that, on startup reads a DB table into a
hashed array and then makes this available to the rest of the hooks. A
later hook then takes this hashed array and parses it to add a value to
a custom attribute which is then used for later processing within a handler.
While I understand that globals are bad and should never be used, I
believe that making a DB request on every radius packet would have more
of an impact on performance for something that rarely changes (maybe
once a week or so) and so the positives outweigh the negatives.
What I had which doesn't seem to work was something along these lines.
<from radius.cfg>
# Hooks
StartupHook file:"%D/hooks/StartupHook-SetupGlobals.pl"
.
.
<Client>
Secret blah
PreHandlerHook file:"$D/hooks/AddAttribute.pl"
</Client>
<Handler MyAtttribute = /something/>
.
Do Stuff
</Handler>
in the SetupGlobals file I have something like;
# Define a global (obviously, there is where I'd read in the DB table)
our %global_steve = (
'message1' => 'Steve was here',
'message2' => 'woot'
);
and then, when trying to reference it I have in the PreHandler hook
sub {
&main::log($main::LOG_INFO, "Test: $main::global_steve{'messsage1'}");
}
Which ends up printing out a blank.
Does anyone know of either, a way to get this going, or a way to read in
a db table of data and cache it for use in later hooks without having
each radius request generate another database call?
Thanks in advance,
--
Steve.
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