Bug #75339 for Pod-WSDL: $me->use fails with new perl version because this calls UNIVERSAL::use instead of Pod::WSDL::AUTOLOAD

Hi to all the developers/maintainers of POD::WSDL, I found an error in Pod-WSDL-0.05 (but is still existent in 0.061 as far as I can tell). The problem is that the properties of the Pod::WSDL object are called via the AUTOLOAD functionality which calls Pod::WSDL::AUTOLOAD. One of the properties is named {_use} and is called by $me->use. Our perl version (perl -v shows "This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi") doesn't like this because $me->use calls the "use" Method of UNIVERSAL because UNIVERSAL is the parent class of all other classes (and therefore also of a of Pod::WSDL instance). So $me->use calls the inherited method named "use" which it gets from UNIVERSAL (instead of the AUTOLOAD) which results in the following error: UNIVERSAL::require() can only be run as a class method, caller:UNIVERSAL::use at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/UNIVERSAL/require.pm line 83. this happens because $me->use calls UNIVERSAL::use which calls UNIVERSAL::require and $me is passed as the class/object and because $me is a reference it dies there. I tried replacing all $me->use by $me->{_use} and this solves the problem but you should fix this as Pod::WSDL seems to have stopped working in newer perl releases (maybe some security fix which introduced an updated UNIVERSAL.pm). I think you should avoid method names of "UNIVERSAL" when autoloading even better would be the use of some prefix or something to avoid future collisions with UNIVERSAL. And here some addition infos: we're running an CentOS 5.5 (uname -a shows "Linux da6 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jan 10 17:25:58 EST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux") but I don't think this is relevant for this bug. Best regards, Marc Elser Show quoted text