NAME

XAS::Lib::Gearman::Worker - An interface to the Gearman job queue.

SYNOPSIS

use XAS::Lib::Gearman::Worker;

sub reverse {
   my $job = shift;

   ....
   ....

}

my $worker = XAS::Lib::Gearman::Worker->new(
    -server => 'localhost',
    -port   => '4730'
);

$worker->add_function(
    -queue    => 'reverse',
    -function => \&reverse,
    -options  => {}
);

while ($worker->work());

DESCRIPTION

This is a wrapper module around Gearman::XS::Worker.

METHODS

new

This method intializes the module and connects to the gearman server. It takes two parameters:

-server

The server where gearman resides, defaults to 'localhost'.

-port

The IP port that gearman is listening on, defaults to 4730.

work

This method is used to wait for work from gearman. It handles some common error conditions. It will throw an exception when something unexpected happens.

add_function

Notify gearman that we can handle this function. It takes three parameters:

-queue

The queue that this procedure will listen on.

-function

The callback that will do the work.

-options

Optional options to be passed to gearman.

SEE ALSO

Gearman::XS

Gearman::XS::Client

Gearman::XS::Worker

XAS

AUTHOR

Kevin L. Esteb, <kevin@kesteb.us>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2012 by Kevin L. Esteb

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.