[Catalyst] Can't use string ("AutoCommit") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use

[Dmitri Pissarenko]

Hello!

I'm new to Catalyst and now I try to make the example "Catalyst
Tutorial - Part 2: Catalyst Application Development Basics" (
Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial::CatalystBasics) run on for me (on a
windows machine with ActivePerl).

However, I'm getting following exception, when I connect to
http://localhost:3000/books/list:

Caught exception in MyApp::Controller::Books->list "Can't use string
("AutoCommit") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at
D:/Perl/site/lib/DBI.pm line 553."


The configuation data is given below.

TIA for any hint

Dmitri Pissarenko

P. S.: Here is the full error report:

Request

bless({
  action           => "books/list",
  address          => "127.0.0.1",
  arguments        => [],
  base             => bless(do{\(my $o = "http://localhost:3000/")},
"URI::http"),
  body_parameters  => {},
  captures         => [],
  cookies          => {
                        "MANTIS_VIEW_ALL_COOKIE" => bless({ name =>
"MANTIS_VIEW_ALL_COOKIE", path => "/", value => [1] },
"CGI::Simple::Cookie"),
                        wikidbLoggedOut          => bless({ name =>
"wikidbLoggedOut", path => "/", value => ["20070430135728"] },
"CGI::Simple::Cookie"),
                        wikidbUserName           => bless({
                                                      name  => "wikidbUserName",
                                                      path  => "/",
                                                      value =>
["\xD0\x94\xD0\x90\xD0\x9F"],
                                                    }, "CGI::Simple::Cookie"),
                      },
  headers          => bless({
                        "accept" =>
"text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5",
                        "accept-charset" => "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7",
                        "accept-encoding" => "gzip,deflate",
                        "accept-language" => "en-us,en;q=0.5",
                        connection => "keep-alive",
                        cookie => "wikidbUserName=%D0%94%D0%90%D0%9F;
MANTIS_VIEW_ALL_COOKIE=1; wikidbLoggedOut=20070430135728",
                        host => "localhost:3000",
                        "keep-alive" => 300,
                        "user-agent" => "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7",
                      }, "HTTP::Headers"),
  hostname         => "localhost",
  match            => "books/list",
  method           => "GET",
  parameters       => {},
  path             => "books/list",
  protocol         => "HTTP/1.0",
  query_parameters => {},
  secure           => 0,
  uploads          => {},
  uri              => bless(do{\(my $o =
"http://localhost:3000/books/list")}, "URI::http"),
  user             => undef,
}, "Catalyst::Request")

Response

bless({
  body    => "",
  cookies => {},
  headers => bless({
               "content-type" => "text/html; charset=utf-8",
               "x-catalyst"   => "5.7006",
             }, "HTTP::Headers"),
  status  => 200,
}, "Catalyst::Response")

Stash

{}

Config

do {
  my $a = {
    home => "C:\\work\\business\\prog\\i5invest\\2007_04_30_sampleAppI5invest\\MyApp",
    name => "MyApp",
    root => bless({
          dirs => [
                "",
                "work",
                "business",
                "prog",
                "i5invest",
                "2007_04_30_sampleAppI5invest",
                "MyApp",
                "root",
              ],
          file_spec_class => undef,
          volume => "C:",
        }, "Path::Class::Dir"),
    stacktrace => { context => 3, verbose => 0 },
    static => {
          debug => 1,
          dirs => [],
          ignore_dirs => [],
          ignore_extensions => ["tmpl", "tt", "tt2", "html", "xhtml"],
          include_path => ['fix'],
          mime_types => {},
          no_logs => 1,
        },
  };
  $a->{static}{include_path}[0] = $a->{root};
  $a;
}

P. P. S.: Here is the output of "perl -v":

C:\work\business\prog\i5invest\2007_04_30_sampleAppI5invest\MyApp>perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.4 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2004, Larry Wall

Binary build 810 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.com
ActiveState is a division of Sophos.
Built Jun  1 2004 11:52:21

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