NAME
Test2::Harness::Util::File::Stream - Utility class for manipulating a file that serves as an output stream.
DESCRIPTION
Subclass of Test2::Harness::File that streams the contents of a file, even if the file is still being written.
SYNOPSIS
use Test2::Harness::Util::File::Stream;
my $stream = Test2::Harness::Util::File::Stream->new(name => 'path/to/file');
# Read some lines
my @lines = $stream->poll;
...
# Read more lines, if any.
push @lines => $stream->poll;ATTRIBUTES
See Test2::Harness::File for additional attributes.
These can be passed in as construction arguments if desired.
- $bool = $stream->use_write_lock
- $stream->use_write_lock($bool)
-
Lock the file for every
write()operation. - $bool = $stream->tail
-
Start near the end of the file and only poll for updates appended to it.
METHODS
See Test2::Harness::File for additional methods.
- @lines = $stream->read()
-
Read all lines from the beginning. Every time it is called it returns ALL lines.
- @lines = $stream->poll()
- @lines = $stream->poll(max => $int)
-
Poll for lines. This is an iterator, it should not return the same line more than once, you can call it multiple times to get any additional lines that have been added since the last poll.
- $stream->write(@content)
-
Append @content to the file.
SOURCE
The source code repository for Test2-Harness can be found at http://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Harness/.
MAINTAINERS
AUTHORS
COPYRIGHT
Copyright Chad Granum <exodist7@gmail.com>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.