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NAME

Interact::Later - Delay some tasks for later by dumping their data to disk

VERSION

Version 0.05

SYNOPSIS

Can be used, for example, when you receive lots of POST requests that you don't want to proceed right now to save database load.

This module will fastly store the data content on disk (with Storable) without the need to use a database or a job queue. I believe as Perl is fast at writing files to disk, we can hope good results. This is an experiment...

use Interact::Later;

my $delayer = Interact::Later->new(
  cache_path => 'path/to/cache',
  file_extension => '.dmp'
);

$delayer->write_data_to_disk($data);

# Later...
# Do it until there are no more files...
$delayer->get_oldest_file_in_cache();

# Finally
$delayer->clean_cache;

MOTIVATIONS

TODO Telling the story of what happened at work and the situation with databases, job queues, etc. that got troubled by the large amount of POST requests.

EXPORT

A list of functions that can be exported. You can delete this section if you don't export anything, such as for a purely object-oriented module.

ATTRIBUTES

To instantiate a new Interacter::Later delayer, simply pass a hashref containing a key-value couple containing the following:

cache_path

cache_path is the relative path to the directory that will contain multiple cache files. It will be expanded to an absolute path by the Moose trigger and Path::Class.

Keep it simple, it don't require a / in the beginning nor the end, and you will be able to access it through $delayer-class_path>.

$ pwd
/home/smonff/later/

my $delayer = Interact::Later->new( cache_path => 'path/to/cache', ... );
say $delayer->class_path;
# /home/smonff/later/path/to/cache/
# Note it add a / in the end

file_extension

TODO

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

get_oldest_cache_files_ordered_by_date

Retrieve the oldest file in the cache. $files[0] is the oldest, $files[-1]the newest.

clean_cache

Flush the cache.

release_cache

Retrieve a specific file by ID

generate_uuid

write_data_to_disk

Writes the cache files to disk using Storable. It also checks that the cache path exists and if not, it creates it.

Returns the UUID so this way, the caller could re-use it (by placing it in a queue for example).

retrieve_data_from_disk

AUTHOR

Sébastien Feugère, <smonff at riseup.net>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to interact-later at gitlab.com, or through the web interface at https://gitlab.com/smonff/interact-later/issues. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Interact::Later

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2019 Sébastien Feugère.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

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