NAME

Mojo::Pg::PubSub - Publish/Subscribe

SYNOPSIS

use Mojo::Pg::PubSub;

my $pubsub = Mojo::Pg::PubSub->new(pg => $pg);
my $cb = $pubsub->listen(foo => sub {
  my ($pubsub, $payload) = @_;
  say "Received: $payload";
});
$pubsub->notify(foo => 'bar');
$pubsub->unlisten(foo => $cb);

DESCRIPTION

Mojo::Pg::PubSub is a scalable implementation of the publish/subscribe pattern used by Mojo::Pg. It is based on PostgreSQL notifications and allows many consumers to share the same database connection, to avoid many common scalability problems.

EVENTS

Mojo::Pg::PubSub inherits all events from Mojo::EventEmitter and can emit the following new ones.

reconnect

$pubsub->on(reconnect => sub {
  my ($pubsub, $db) = @_;
  ...
});

Emitted after switching to a new database connection for sending and receiving notifications.

ATTRIBUTES

Mojo::Pg::PubSub implements the following attributes.

pg

my $pg  = $pubsub->pg;
$pubsub = $pubsub->pg(Mojo::Pg->new);

Mojo::Pg object this publish/subscribe container belongs to.

METHODS

Mojo::Pg::PubSub inherits all methods from Mojo::EventEmitter and implements the following new ones.

listen

my $cb = $pubsub->listen(foo => sub {...});

Subscribe to a channel, there is no limit on how many subscribers a channel can have.

# Subscribe to the same channel twice
$pubsub->listen(foo => sub {
  my ($pubsub, $payload) = @_;
  say "One: $payload";
});
$pubsub->listen(foo => sub {
  my ($pubsub, $payload) = @_;
  say "Two: $payload";
});

notify

$pubsub = $pubsub->notify('foo');
$pubsub = $pubsub->notify(foo => 'bar');

Notify a channel.

unlisten

$pubsub = $pubsub->unlisten('foo');
$pubsub = $pubsub->unlisten(foo => $cb);

Unsubscribe from a channel.

SEE ALSO

Mojo::Pg, Mojolicious::Guides, http://mojolicious.org.