NAME
POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::PlugMan - A PoCo-IRC plugin that provides plugin management services.
SYNOPSIS
use strict;
use warnings;
use POE qw(Component::IRC::State);
use POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::PlugMan;
my $botowner = 'somebody!*@somehost.com';
my $irc = POE::Component::IRC::State->spawn();
POE::Session->create(
package_states => [
main => [ qw(_start irc_plugin_add) ],
],
);
sub _start {
$irc->yield( register => 'all' );
$irc->plugin_add( 'PlugMan' => POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::PlugMan->new( botowner => $botowner ) );
return;
}
sub irc_plugin_add {
my ($desc, $plugin) = @_[ARG0, ARG1];
if ($desc eq 'PlugMan') {
$plugin->load( 'Connector', 'POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::Connector' );
}
return;
}DESCRIPTION
POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::PlugMan is a POE::Component::IRC plugin management plugin. It provides support for 'on-the-fly' loading, reloading and unloading of plugin modules, via object methods that you can incorporate into your own code and a handy IRC interface.
METHODS
new
Takes two optional arguments:
'botowner', an IRC mask to match against for people issuing commands via the IRC interface;
'debug', set to a true value to see when stuff goes wrong;
Not setting a 'botowner' effectively disables the IRC interface.
If 'botowner' is specified the plugin checks that it is being loaded into a POE::Component::IRC::State or sub-class and will fail to load otherwise.
Returns a plugin object suitable for feeding to POE::Component::IRC's plugin_add() method.
load
Loads a managed plugin.
Takes two mandatory arguments, a plugin descriptor and a plugin package name. Any other arguments are used as options to the loaded plugin constructor.
$plugin->load( 'Connector', 'POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::Connector', delay, 120 );Returns true or false depending on whether the load was successfully or not.
unload
Unloads a managed plugin.
Takes one mandatory argument, a plugin descriptor.
$plugin->unload( 'Connector' );Returns true or false depending on whether the unload was successfully or not.
reload
Unloads and loads a managed plugin, with applicable plugin options.
Takes one mandatory argument, a plugin descriptor.
$plugin->reload( 'Connector' );loaded
Takes no arguments.
$plugin->loaded();Returns a list of descriptors of managed plugins.
INPUT
An IRC interface is enabled by specifying a "botowner" mask to new(). Commands may be either invoked via a PRIVMSG directly to your bot or in a channel by prefixing the command with the nickname of your bot. One caveat, the parsing of the irc command is very rudimentary ( it merely splits the line on \s+ ).
plugin_add
Takes the same arguments as load().
plugin_del
Takes the same arguments as unload().
plugin_reload
Takes the same arguments as reload().
plugin_loaded
Returns a list of descriptors of managed plugins.
plugin_list
Returns a list of descriptors of *all* plugins loaded into the current PoCo-IRC component.
AUTHOR
Chris 'BinGOs' Williams