NAME

POE::Filter::IRCD - A POE-based parser for the IRC protocol.

SYNOPSIS

    use POE::Filter::IRCD;

    my $filter = POE::Filter::IRCD->new( debug => 1, colonify => 0 );
    my $arrayref = $filter->get( [ $hashref ] );
    my $arrayref2 = $filter->put( $arrayref );

    use POE qw(Filter::Stackable Filter::Line Filter::IRCD);

    my ($filter) = POE::Filter::Stackable->new();
    $filter->push( POE::Filter::Line->new( InputRegexp => '\015?\012', OutputLiteral => "\015\012" ),
		   POE::Filter::IRCD->new(), );

DESCRIPTION

POE::Filter::IRCD provides a convenient way of parsing and creating IRC protocol lines. It provides the parsing engine for POE::Component::Server::IRC and POE::Component::IRC. A standalone version exists as Parse::IRC.

CONSTRUCTOR

new

Creates a new POE::Filter::IRCD object. Takes two optional arguments:

'debug', which will print all lines received to STDERR;
'colonify', set to 1 to force the filter to always colonify the last param passed in a put(),
            default is 0. See below for more detail.

METHODS

get_one_start

get_one

get_pending

get

Takes an arrayref which is contains lines of IRC formatted input. Returns an arrayref of hashrefs which represents the lines. The hashref contains the following fields:

prefix
command
params ( this is an arrayref )
raw_line 

For example, if the filter receives the following line, the following hashref is produced:

  LINE: ':moo.server.net 001 lamebot :Welcome to the IRC network lamebot'

  HASHREF: {
		prefix   => ':moo.server.net',
		command  => '001',
		params   => [ 'lamebot', 'Welcome to the IRC network lamebot' ],
		raw_line => ':moo.server.net 001 lamebot :Welcome to the IRC network lamebot',
	   }

put

Takes an arrayref containing hashrefs of IRC data and returns an arrayref containing IRC formatted lines. Optionally, one can specify 'colonify' to override the global colonification option. eg.

  $hashref = { 
		command => 'PRIVMSG', 
		prefix => 'FooBar!foobar@foobar.com', 
		params => [ '#foobar', 'boo!' ],
		colonify => 1, # Override the global colonify option for this record only.
	      };

  $filter->put( [ $hashref ] );

clone

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

debug

With a true or false argument, enables or disables debug output respectively. Without an argument the behaviour is to toggle the debug status.

MAINTAINER

Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>

AUTHOR

Jonathan Steinert

LICENSE

Copyright © Chris Williams and Jonathan Steinert

This module may be used, modified, and distributed under the same terms as Perl itself. Please see the license that came with your Perl distribution for details.

SEE ALSO

POE

POE::Filter

POE::Filter::Stackable

POE::Component::Server::IRC

POE::Component::IRC

Parse::IRC