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NAME

Net::Stomp - A Streaming Text Orientated Messaging Protocol Client

SYNOPSIS

  # send a message to the queue 'foo'
  use Net::Stomp;
  my $stomp = Net::Stomp->new( { hostname => 'localhost', port => '61613' } );
  $stomp->connect( { login => 'hello', passcode => 'there' } );
  $stomp->send(
      { destination => '/queue/foo', body => 'test message' } );
  $stomp->disconnect;

  # subscribe to messages from the queue 'foo'
  use Net::Stomp;
  my $stomp = Net::Stomp->new( { hostname => 'localhost', port => '61613' } );
  $stomp->connect( { login => 'hello', passcode => 'there' } );
  $stomp->subscribe(
      {   destination             => '/queue/foo',
          'ack'                   => 'client',
          'activemq.prefetchSize' => 1
      }
  );
  while (1) {
    my $frame = $stomp->receive_frame;
    warn $frame->body; # do something here
    $stomp->ack( { frame => $frame } );
  }
  $stomp->disconnect;

  # write your own frame
   my $frame = Net::Stomp::Frame->new(
       { command => $command, headers => $conf, body => $body } );
  $self->send_frame($frame);

DESCRIPTION

This module allows you to write a Stomp client. Stomp is the Streaming Text Orientated Messaging Protocol (or the Protocol Briefly Known as TTMP and Represented by the symbol :ttmp). It's a simple and easy to implement protocol for working with Message Orientated Middleware from any language. Net::Stomp is useful for talking to Apache ActiveMQ, an open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) Java Message Service 1.1 (JMS) message broker packed with many enterprise features.

A Stomp frame consists of a command, a series of headers and a body - see Net::Stomp::Frame for more details.

For details on the protocol see http://stomp.codehaus.org/Protocol.

To enable the ActiveMQ Broker for Stomp add the following to the activemq.xml configuration:

  <connector>
      <serverTransport uri="stomp://localhost:61613"/>
  </connector>

For details on Stomp in ActiveMQ See http://www.activemq.org/site/stomp.html.

METHODS

new

The constructor creates a new object. You must pass in a hostname and a port:

  my $stomp = Net::Stomp->new( { hostname => 'localhost', port => '61613' } );

connect

This connects to the Stomp server. You must pass in a login and passcode.

You may pass in 'client-id', which specifies the JMS Client ID which is used in combination to the activemqq.subscriptionName to denote a durable subscriber.

  $stomp->connect( { login => 'hello', passcode => 'there' } );

send

This sends a message to a queue or topic. You must pass in a destination and a body.

  $stomp->send(
      { destination => '/queue/foo', body => 'test message' } );

To send a BytesMessage, you should set the field 'bytes_message' to 1.

disconnect

This disconnects from the Stomp server:

  $stomp->disconnect;

subscribe

This subscribes you to a queue or topic. You must pass in a destination.

The acknowledge mode defaults to 'auto', which means that frames will be considered delivered after they have been sent to a client. The other option is 'client', which means that messages will only be considered delivered after the client specifically acknowledges them with an ACK frame.

Other options:

'selector': which specifies a JMS Selector using SQL 92 syntax as specified in the JMS 1.1 specificiation. This allows a filter to be applied to each message as part of the subscription.

'activemq.dispatchAsync': should messages be dispatched synchronously or asynchronously from the producer thread for non-durable topics in the broker. For fast consumers set this to false. For slow consumers set it to true so that dispatching will not block fast consumers.

'activemq.exclusive': Would I like to be an Exclusive Consumer on a queue.

'activemq.maximumPendingMessageLimit': For Slow Consumer Handlingon non-durable topics by dropping old messages - we can set a maximum pending limit which once a slow consumer backs up to this high water mark we begin to discard old messages.

'activemq.noLocal': Specifies whether or not locally sent messages should be ignored for subscriptions. Set to true to filter out locally sent messages.

'activemq.prefetchSize': Specifies the maximum number of pending messages that will be dispatched to the client. Once this maximum is reached no more messages are dispatched until the client acknowledges a message. Set to 1 for very fair distribution of messages across consumers where processing messages can be slow.

'activemq.priority': Sets the priority of the consumer so that dispatching can be weighted in priority order.

'activemq.retroactive': For non-durable topics do you wish this subscription to the retroactive.

'activemq.subscriptionName': For durable topic subscriptions you must specify the same clientId on the connection and subscriberName on the subscribe.

  $stomp->subscribe(
      {   destination             => '/queue/foo',
          'ack'                   => 'client',
          'activemq.prefetchSize' => 1
      }
  );

unsubscribe

This unsubscribes you to a queue or topic. You must pass in a destination:

  $stomp->unsubcribe({ destination => '/queue/foo' });

receive_frame

This blocks and returns you the next Stomp frame.

  my $frame = $stomp->receive_frame;
  warn $frame->body; # do something here

The header bytes_message is 1 if the message was a BytesMessage.

can_read

This returns whether a frame is waiting to be read. Optionally takes a timeout in seconds:

  my $can_read = $stomp->can_read;
  my $can_read = $stomp->can_read({ timeout => '0.1' });

ack

This acknowledges that you have received and processed a frame (if you are using client acknowledgements):

  $stomp->ack( { frame => $frame } );

send_frame

If this module does not provide enough help for sending frames, you may construct your own frame and send it:

  # write your own frame
  my $frame = Net::Stomp::Frame->new(
       { command => $command, headers => $conf, body => $body } );
  $self->send_frame($frame);

SEE ALSO

Net::Stomp::Frame.

AUTHOR

Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2006, Leon Brocard

This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.