-package CGI::Switch;
-use Carp;
-use strict;
-use vars qw($VERSION @Pref);
-$VERSION = '0.05';
-@Pref = qw(CGI::Apache CGI); #default
+use CGI;
-sub import {
- my($self,@arg) = @_;
- @Pref = @arg if @arg;
-}
-
-sub new {
- shift;
- my($file,$pack);
- for $pack (@Pref) {
- ($file = $pack) =~ s|::|/|g;
- eval { require "$file.pm"; };
- if ($@) {
-#XXX warn $@;
- next;
- } else {
-#XXX warn "Going to try $pack\->new\n";
- my $obj;
- eval {$obj = $pack->new(@_)};
- if ($@) {
-#XXX warn $@;
- } else {
- return $obj;
- }
- }
- }
- Carp::croak "Couldn't load+construct any of @Pref\n";
-}
-
-# there's a trick in Lincoln's package that determines the calling
-# package. The reason is to have a filehandle with the same name as
-# the filename. To tell this trick that we are not the calling
-# package we have to follow this dirty convention. It's a questionable
-# trick imho, but for now I want to have something working
-sub isaCGI { 1 }
+$VERSION = '1.00';
1;
+
__END__
=head1 NAME
-CGI::Switch - Try more than one constructors and return the first object available
+CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
=head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- use CGISwitch;
-
- -or-
+Do not use this module. It is deprecated.
- use CGI::Switch This, That, CGI::XA, Foo, Bar, CGI;
-
- my $q = new CGI::Switch;
+=head1 ABSTRACT
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-Per default the new() method tries to call new() in the three packages
-Apache::CGI, CGI::XA, and CGI. It returns the first CGI object it
-succeeds with.
+=head1 AUTHOR INFORMATION
-The import method allows you to set up the default order of the
-modules to be tested.
+=head1 BUGS
=head1 SEE ALSO
-perl(1), Apache(3), CGI(3), CGI::XA(3)
-
-=head1 AUTHOR
-
-Andreas König E<lt>a.koenig@mind.deE<gt>
-
=cut