{"id":47,"date":"2004-03-01T11:50:05","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T15:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/2004\/03\/01\/fix-cant-locate-object-method-sele"},"modified":"2004-03-01T11:50:05","modified_gmt":"2004-03-01T15:50:05","slug":"fix-cant-locate-object-method-select_val-via-package-dbist-under-cl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/2004\/03\/01\/fix-cant-locate-object-method-select_val-via-package-dbist-under-cl\/","title":{"rendered":"FIX: Can’t locate object method “select_val” via package “DBI::st” under Class::DBI 0.95"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Between Class::DBI 0.94 and 0.95, something changed causing my classes that override db_Main() to set the db connection (instead of, e.g. using set_db) to stop working.  Specifically, when their sequence functions were invoked, I got an error of:<\/P>
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Can’t locate object method “select_val” via package “DBI::st” (perhaps you forgot to load “DBI::st”?) at \/usr\/lib\/perl5\/site_perl\/5.6.1\/Class\/DBI.pm line …<\/P>
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I was able to replicate this on Mac OS X 10.2 with Perl 5.6.0 and Red Hat 9 with 5.6.1 (don’t ask about the latter version magic…).<\/P>
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If you get select_val errors with Class::DBI 0.95, here are two workarounds:<\/P>
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