NAME
App::PerlWatcher::Watcher - Observes some external source of events and emits the result of polling them
VERSION
version 0.14
ATTRIBUTES
engine_config
Holds an reference to engine config (used in construction watcher's thresholds_map)
init_args
Remembers the arguments for watcher construction (used in construction watcher's thresholds_map and unique_id)
config
The wacher configuration hash ref.
unique_id
Represents watchers unique_id, calculated from concrete watcher class and watcher's config. The unique_id is overloaded "to-string" operation, so watcher can be used to as hash key. unique_id is also used when the PerlWatcher state is been persisted : the watcher itself isn't stored, but it's unique_id is stored. That guarantees that unique_id is the same between PerlWatcher invokations (that's why the perl internal hash funciton isn't used)
memory
Stores current wacher state (memory). When the watcher is persisted, only it's memory and unique_id are stored.
callback
The subroutine reference, which is been called on every poll of watcher external source. It's argument is the State.
METHODS
description
The string description of the watcher
active
Turns on and off the wacher.
calculate_threshods
Calculates the thresholds_map based on the left map and righ map The left map has precedence. Usualy the left map is the watchers config, while the righ map is the generic PerlWatcher/Engine config
interpret_result
This method interprets the result of poll (true or false) in accordance with thresholds_map and the callback will be called with the resulting status (and optionally provided items). Meant to be called from subclases, e.g.
$watcher->interpret_result(0, $callback);AUTHOR
Ivan Baidakou <dmol@gmx.com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Ivan Baidakou.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.