NAME

POE::Component::AIO - Asynchronous Input/Output for POE

SYNOPSIS

use POE qw( Component::AIO );

...

aio_read( $fh, 0, 1024, $buffer, 0, $poco_aio->callback( 'open_done' ) );

aio_read( $fh, 0, 1024, $buffer, 0, sub {
  ...
} );

DESCRIPTION

This component adds support for L<IO::AIO> use in POE

EXAMPLE

use POE;

Foo->new();

$poe_kernel->run();

package Foo;

use POE qw( Component::AIO );
use Fcntl;

use strict;
use warnings;

sub new {
    my $class = shift;

    my $self = bless( {}, $class );

    POE::Session->create(
        object_states => [
            $self => [qw(
                _start
                _stop

                open_done
                read_done
            )]
        ]
    );
  
    return $self;
}

sub _start {
    my $file = '/etc/passwd';
    
    aio_open( $file, O_RDONLY, 0, $poco_aio->callback( 'open_done', $file ) );
}

sub open_done {
    my ( $self, $session, $file, $fh ) = @_[ OBJECT, SESSION, ARG0, ARG1 ];
    
    unless ( defined $fh ) {
        die "aio open failed on $file: $!";
    }
    
    my $buffer = '';
    # read 1024 bytes from $fh
    aio_read( $fh, 0, 1024, $buffer, 0, $poco_aio->postback( 'read_done', \$buffer ) );
}

sub read_done {
    my ( $self, $buffer, $bytes ) = @_[ OBJECT, ARG0, ARG1 ];

    unless( $bytes > 0 ) {
        die "aio read failed: $!";
    }
    
    print $$buffer;
}

sub _stop {
    $poco_aio->shutdown();
}

NOTES

This module automaticly bootstraps itself on use(). $poco_aio is imported into your namespace for easy use. Just like $poe_kernel when using POE. There are two import options available: no_auto_bootstrap and no_auto_export.

Example:

use POE::Component::AIO { no_auto_bootstrap => 1, no_auto_export => 1 };

Also, use of this modules' callback and postback methods are completely optional. They are included for convenience, but note that they don't work the same as the postback and callback methods from POE::Session.

METHODS

new()

Call this to get the singleton object, which is the same as $poco_aio. See the notes above. You do not need to call this unless you have disabled auto bootstrapping.

shutdown()

Stop the session used by this module.

callback( $event [, $params ] )

Returns a callback. Params are optional and are stacked before params passed to the callback at call time. This differs from POE::Session's callback because the params are not wrapped in array references. It uses the current session to latch the callback to. If you want to use another session, you can pass an array ref of the session id and event name as the event param.

Examples:

$cb = $poco_aio->callback( 'foo' );
$cb = $poco_aio->callback( 'foo', $bar );
$cb = $poco_aio->callback( [ $session->ID(), 'foo' ] );
$cb = $poco_aio->callback( [ $session->ID(), 'foo' ], $bar );

postback( $event [, $params ] );

See the callback method. The only difference is that it uses a post instead of call

SEE ALSO

IO::AIO, POE

AUTHOR

David Davis <xantus@cpan.org> http://xantus.org/

LICENSE

Artistic License

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2007 David Davis, and The Dojo Foundation. Code was shared from the Cometd project http://cometd.com/