NAME

Gearman::Worker - Worker for gearman distributed job system

SYNOPSIS

    use Gearman::Worker;
    my $worker = Gearman::Worker->new;
    $worker->job_servers('127.0.0.1');
    $worker->register_function($funcname => $subref);
    $worker->work while 1;

DESCRIPTION

Gearman::Worker is a worker class for the Gearman distributed job system, providing a framework for receiving and serving jobs from a Gearman server.

Callers instantiate a Gearman::Worker object, register a list of functions and capabilities that they can handle, then enter an event loop, waiting for the server to send jobs.

The worker can send a return value back to the server, which then gets sent back to the client that requested the job; or it can simply execute silently.

USAGE

Gearman::Worker->new(\%options)

Creates a new Gearman::Worker object, and returns the object.

If %options is provided, initializes the new worker object with the settings in %options, which can contain:

• job_servers

  Calls job_servers (see below) to initialize the list of job servers.

$worker->job_servers(@servers)

Initializes the worker $worker with the list of job servers in @servers. @servers should contain a list of IP addresses, with optional port numbers. For example:

    $worker->job_servers('127.0.0.1', '192.168.1.100:7003');

If the port number is not provided, 7003 is used as the default.

$worker->register_function($funcname, $subref)

Registers the function $funcname as being provided by the worker $worker, and advertises these capabilities to all of the job servers defined in this worker.

$subref must be a subroutine reference that will be invoked when the worker receives a request for this function. It will be passed a Gearman::Job object representing the job that has been received by the worker.

The subroutine reference can return a return value, which will be sent back to the job server.

Gearman::Job->arg

Returns the scalar argument that the client sent to the job server.

Gearman::Job->set_status($numerator, $denominator)

Updates the status of the job (most likely, a long-running job) and sends it back to the job server. $numerator and $denominator should represent the percentage completion of the job.

EXAMPLES

Summation

This is an example worker that receives a request to sum up a list of integers.

    use Gearman::Worker;
    use Storable qw( thaw );
    use List::Util qw( sum );
    my $worker = Gearman::Worker->new;
    $worker->job_servers('127.0.0.1');
    $worker->register_function(sum => sub { sum @{ thaw($_[0]->arg) } });
    $worker->work while 1;

See the Gearman::Client documentation for a sample client sending the sum job.