NAME

Broker::Async::Worker

DESCRIPTION

Used by Broker::Async for tracking the state of asynchronous work.

ATTRIBUTES

code

The code reference used to start the work. This will be invoked with the arguments passed to do.

Must return a Future subclass.

concurrency

The number of concurrent tasks a worker can execute. Do'ing more tasks than this limit is a fatal error.

Defaults to 1.

METHODS

new

my $worker = Broker::Async::Worker->new(
    code        => sub { ... },
    concurrency => $max,
);

available

Indicates whether the worker is available to do tasks. It is a fatal error to invoke do when this is false.

do

my $future = $worker->do($task);

Invokes the code attribute with the given arguments. Returns a future that will be resolved when the work is done.

AUTHOR

Mark Flickinger <maf@cpan.org>

LICENSE

This software is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.