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App-EvalServer-0.08
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NAME

App::EvalServer - Evaluate arbitrary code in a safe environment

SYNOPSIS

use App::EvalServer;

my $server = App::EvalServer->new(
    port    => 1234,
    timeout => 30,
);

$server->run();

# ...

$server->shutdown();

DESCRIPTION

This application evaluates arbitrary source code in a safe enviroment. It listens on a TCP port and accepts JSON data desribing a language and some code to evaluate. The result of the evaluation and some accompanying information is then returned as back as JSON data. See "INPUT" and "OUTPUT" for details.

METHODS

new

Constructs a new App::EvalServer object. Takes the following optional argunments:

'host', the host to listen on (default: 'localhost')

'port', the port to listen on (default: 14400)

'user', evaluate code as this user (default: 'nobody')

'timeout', kill the evaluating process after this many seconds (default: 10)

'limit', resource limit in megabytes (default: 50)

'daemonize', daemonize the process

'unsafe', don't chroot or set resource limits (no root needed). Default is false.

run

Runs the server. Takes no arguments.

shutdown

Shuts down the server. Takes no arguments.

INPUT

To request an evaluation, you need to send a JSON hash containing the following keys:

'lang', a string containing the language module suffix, e.g. 'Perl' for App::EvalServer::Language::Perl.

'code', a string containing the code you want evaluated.

OUTPUT

When your request has been processed, you will receive a JSON hash back. If no errors occurred before the code was evaluated, the hash will contain the following keys:

  • 'result', containing the result of the evaluation.

  • 'stdout', a string containing everything that was printed to the evaluating process' stdout handle.

  • 'stderr', a string containing everything that was printed to the evaluating process' stderr handle.

  • 'output' a string containing the merged output (stdout & stderr) from the evaluating process.

  • 'memory', the memory use of the evaluating process (as reported by (getrusage())[2]).

  • 'real_time', the real time taken by the evaluating process.

  • 'user_time', the user time taken by the evaluating process.

  • 'sys_time', the sys time taken by the evaluating process.

If an error occurred before the code could be evaluated, the only key you will get is 'error', which tells you what went wrong.

AUTHOR

Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson (hinrik.sig@gmail.com), buu, and probably others

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2010 Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.