NAME

Adapter::Async::UnorderedMap - API for dealing with key => value maps

VERSION

version 0.018

DESCRIPTION

Accessing data

• count - resolves with the number of items. If this isn't possible, an estimate may be acceptable.

  say "items: " . $adapter->count->get

• get - accepts a list of keys

  $adapter->get(
   items   => [1,2,3],
   on_item => sub { ... }
  )->on_done(sub { warn "all done, full list of items: %{$_[0]}" })

  Unlike the "get" in Adapter::Async::OrderedList method, this resolves to a hashref.

  The top-level of the hashref returned is guaranteed not to be modified further, if you want to store it directly. No such guarantee applies to the values themselves - it is only a shallow clone.

This means we have double-notify on get: a request for (a,b, 34, q) needs to fire events for each of a,b,34,q, and also return the hashref containing those keys on completion (by resolving a Future).

Modification

• clear - remove all data

• modify - changes a single entry

• set - adds a new key

• delete - removes an existing key

Events

All events are shared over a common bus for each data source, in the usual fashion - adapters and views can subscribe to the ones they're interested in, and publish events at any time.

The adapter raises these:

• item_changed - the given item has been modified. by default only applies to elements that were marked as visible.

• splice - changes to the array which remove or add elements

• move - an existing element moves to a new key (some adapters may not be able to differentiate between this and splice: if in doubt, use splice instead, don't report as a move unless it's guaranteed to be existing items)

The view raises these:

• visible - indicates visibility of one or more items. change events will start being sent for these items.

  visible => [1,2,3,4,5,6]

  Filters may result in a list with gaps:

  visible => [1,3,4,8,9,10]

  Note that "visible" means "the user is able to see this data", so they'd be a single page of data rather than the entire set when no filters are applied. Visibility changes often - scrolling will trigger a visible/hidden pair for example.

  Also note that ->get may be called on any element, regardless of visibility - prefetching is one common example here.

• hidden - no longer visible.

  hidden => [1,2,4]

• selected - this item is now part of an active selection. could be used to block deletes.

  selected => [1,4,5,6]

• highlight - mouse over, cursor, etc.

  highlight => 1

  Some views won't raise this - if touch control is involved, for example

• activate - some action has been performed.

  activate => [1]
  activate => [1,2,5,6,7,8]

  Multi-activate will typically happen when items have been selected rather than just highlighted.

  The adapter itself doesn't do much with this.

METHODS

set

Sets the value of a key.

$adapter->set(xyz => 'abc')

all

Returns all the items. Shortcut for calling "count" then "get".

INHERITED METHODS

Adapter::Async

bus, new

AUTHOR

Tom Molesworth <TEAM@cpan.org>

LICENSE

Copyright Tom Molesworth 2013-2015. Licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.