Bugzilla::Bug has an AUTOLOAD that tends to cause annoying problems. We should define all of the basic accessors as normal subroutines, and minimize the use of AUTOLOAD.

I was fully able to eliminate the AUTOLOAD, by automatically creating the custom field accessors the first time that a Bug object is created. We have to run it once on every request, even in mod_perl, because the list of custom fields might have changed. This will cause one behavior change--we will now start returning "undef" instead of an empty string for values that are NULL in the database. In my view, this is something that we definitely *want* to be doing, so it's not bad. In my brief testing, this works fine.

Ah, bug 330717...

(In reply to comment #2) > Ah, bug 330717... Ah, I *thought* we had a bug for that! I didn't search for closed bugs, of course. :-) Maybe it should be duped here, now that this bug has a patch?

glob pointed out on IRC that I forgot to add a "version" accessor.

Comment on attachment 480069 [details] [diff] [review] v2 r=glob

Wooo hooo!! Bye-bye, AUTOLOAD!! Committing to: bzr+ssh://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/trunk/ modified Bugzilla/Bug.pm Committed revision 7497.