Perl Cache::Memcached not connecting

[Adam Dixon]

Thanks for the quick reply Earl, at 5:29pm you have made my day.

Thanks allot,

Adam

On 11/9/06, Cahill, Earl <ecahill at corp.untd.com> wrote:
> I think you just need to make servers an array ref, like so
>
> my $mcd = new Cache::Memcached {'servers' => ["127.0.0.1:11211"]};
>
> I think that's kind of a bug, but maybe not.  I think it should at least
> die on the instantiation with something like 'servers needs to be an
> array ref', but I would say, heck, just change it to an array ref on the
> fly
>
> Seems like something like
>
> $self->{'servers'} = [$self->{'servers'}]
> unless(UNIVERSAL::isa($self->{'servers'}, 'ARRAY'));
>
> Right after
>
>     $self->{'servers'} = $list || [];
>
> In set_servers would do the trick.
>
> I have made your same mistake in the past.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Earl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: memcached-bounces at lists.danga.com
> [mailto:memcached-bounces at lists.danga.com] On Behalf Of Adam Dixon
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:42 PM
> To: memcached at lists.danga.com
> Subject: Perl Cache::Memcached not connecting
>
> Hi,
> First time playing about with memcached, seems pretty straight
> forward, start it up, and start 'set'ing objects into the cache; My
> example perl script however doesnt work, I cannot seem to get it to
> actually connect (when starting memcached with -vv).
> Ive tried this on 3 systems 2 CentOS4 perl 5.8.5 and a FreeBSD 6.1
> with perl 5.8.8 both seem to be acting the same.
> I installed libevent and memcached from the source downloads and
> Cache::Memcached from CPAN
>
> memcache source files 'make test' looks ok to me, 2 subtests skipped
> but that seems normal from my googling.
> #----------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use Cache::Memcached;
> use Data::Dumper;
> use strict;
>
> my ($obj, $username);
> my $mcd = new Cache::Memcached {'servers' => "127.0.0.1:11211"};
>
> print $mcd->set("my_key", "Some value");
> Dumper($mcd->get("my_key"));
> exit;
> #----------------------
>
> This always prints 0, as in, not actually set properly. I dont get any
> output when memcached is running under -vv (apart from when it starts
> up).
>
> Anyone know what I can try to get this going properly?
>
> Regards
> Adam
>