NAME

POE::Filter::HTTP::Parser - A HTTP POE filter for HTTP clients or servers

VERSION

version 1.08

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
use POE::Filter::HTTP::Parser;
# For HTTP Servers
my $request_filter = POE::Filter::HTTP::Parser->new( type => 'server' );
my $arrayref_of_request_objects = $filter->get( [ $stream ] );
my $arrayref_of_HTTP_stream = $filter->put( $arrayref_of_response_objects );
# For HTTP clients
my $response_filter = POE::Filter::HTTP::Parser->new( type => 'client' );
my $arrayref_of_HTTP_stream = $filter->put( $arrayref_of_request_objects );
my $arrayref_of_response_objects = $filter->get( [ $stream ] );
            
          

DESCRIPTION

POE::Filter::HTTP::Parser is a POE::Filter for HTTP which is based on HTTP::Parser.

It can be used to easily create POE based HTTP servers or clients.

With the type set to client, which is the default behaviour, get will parse HTTP::Response objects from HTTP streams and put will accept HTTP::Request objects and convert them to HTTP streams.

With the type set to server, the reverse will happen. get will parse HTTP::Request objects from HTTP streams and put will accept HTTP::Response objects and convert them to HTTP streams. Like POE::Filter::HTTPD if there is an error parsing the HTTP request, this filter will generate a HTTP::Response object instead, to encapsulate the error message, suitable for simply sending back to the requesting client.

CONSTRUCTOR

new

Creates a new POE::Filter::HTTP::Parser object. Takes one optional argument, type which determines whether the filter will act in client or server mode. client is the default if type is not specified.

            

              
              
'type', set to either 'client' or 'server', default is 'client';
            
          

METHODS

get

get_one_start

get_one

Takes an arrayref which contains lines of text. Returns an arrayref of either HTTP::Request or HTTP::Response objects depending on the type that has been specified.

get_pending

Returns any data remaining in a filter's input buffer. The filter's input buffer is not cleared, however. Returns an array reference if there's any data, or undef if the filter was empty.

put

Takes an arrayref of either HTTP::Response objects or HTTP::Request objects depending on whether type is set to server or client, respectively.

If type is client, then this accepts HTTP::Request objects. If type is server, then this accepts HTTP::Response objects.

This does make sense if you think about it.

The given objects are returned to their stream form.

clone

Makes a copy of the filter, and clears the copy's buffer.

CREDITS

The put method for HTTP responses was borrowed from POE::Filter::HTTPD, along with the code to generate HTTP::Response on a parse error, by Artur Bergman and Rocco Caputo.

SEE ALSO

POE::Filter

HTTP::Parser

POE::Filter::HTTPD

AUTHOR

Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Chris Williams, Artur Bergman and Rocco Caputo.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.