Using LJ::Typemap outside web context: how to initialize LJ::MemCache?

[pauamma]

LJ::Typemap calls LJ::MemCache, but doesn't actually "use LJ::MemCache;" or call LJ::MemCache::init, relying instead on ljlib.pl to do both. In web context, ljlib.pl is loaded through Apache::LiveJournal, and for worker processes, through LJ::Worker::Manual. For other executables (eg, proof of concept, throwaway learning tools, etc) which don't fall in either category, what should happen?

Options are:
1- Make LJ::Typemap (and everything else that relies on LJ::MemCache) use it and initialize it explicitely. This requires changes to LJ::MemCache, because LJ::MemCache::init isn't currently idempotent.
2- Require all programs using LJ::MemCache to use base 'LJ::Worker::Manual'; (but that in turn requires making them workers, with a LJ::Worker::Foo package that's started from main, which is awkward for throw-away programs).
3- Make LJ::MemCache initialize itself when loaded, and remove explicit initialization from everywhere else that uses it, but that's extensive.
4- Something else I forgot.

I'm leaning toward 2 ATM. Anyone has a better solution, an opinion, or comments?

Comments

[zorkian]

Everything should load ljlib at the top. All my tools start with

Use strict
Use lib ljhome/cgi-bin
Require ljlib.pl

Am on train so not logging in as mark or typing proper code.

[pauamma]

Yeah - the obvious "why not load ljlib directly?" hit me sometime in the middle of the night (and I actually jerked awake and called myself an idiot).

Am on train so not logging in as mark or typing proper code.

Were you railing about the lack of decent Internet access on that train?