NAME
Net::Clacks::Client - client for CLACKS interprocess messaging
SYNOPSIS
use Net::Clacks::Client;DESCRIPTION
This implements the client network protocol for the CLACKS interprocess messaging. This is used a lot in Maplat projects to let different processes (workers, webgui, MaplatSVC) communicate with each other
new
Create a new instance.
reconnect
Reconnect to the CLACKS server when something went wrong.
doNetwork
Process incoming and outpoing messages.
ping
Send a PING (keepalive) packet.
disablePing
Temporarly disable auto-disconnects by the server (NOPING command). Useful before doing something with indeterminate length (long running functions and such).
notify
NOTIFY other clients via CLACKS that an event happened.
set
SET a value for a CLACKS variable to other clients.
listen
LISTEN to specific NOTIFY and SET events.
unlisten
Stop listening to specific NOTIFY and SET events.
setMonitormode
Enable/Disable monitor mode. When enabled, the server sends all events it sees as DEBUG events (events LISTENed to also get send the normal way).
getServerinfo
Get server name and version.
getNext
Get the next incoming event in the queue.
setAndStore
Meta-function that both calls set() and store() internally with a single library call. Useful in some circumstances when you both want to remember the variable and also tell everyone interested immediately that it has changed.
DESTROY
Automatically closes the connection.
AUTHOR
Rene Schickbauer, <cavac@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2008-2018 by Rene Schickbauer
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.