NAME

Net::Async::IRC::Protocol - send and receive IRC messages

DESCRIPTION

This subclass of IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream implements an established IRC connection that has already completed its inital login sequence and is ready to send and receive IRC messages. It handles base message sending and receiving, and implements ping timers.

Objects of this type would not normally be constructed directly. For IRC clients, see Net::Async::IRC which is a subclass of it. All the events, parameters, and methods documented below are relevant there.

EVENTS

The following events are invoked, either using subclass methods or CODE references in parameters:

$handled = on_message

$handled = on_message_MESSAGE

Invoked on receipt of a valid IRC message. See MESSAGE HANDLING below.

on_irc_error $err

Invoked on receipt of an invalid IRC message if parsing fails. $err is the error message text. If left unhandled, any parse error will result in the connection being immediataely closed, followed by the exception being re-thrown.

on_ping_timeout

Invoked if the peer fails to respond to a PING message within the given timeout.

on_pong_reply $lag

Invoked when the peer successfully sends a PONG reply response to a PING message. $lag is the response time in (fractional) seconds.

PARAMETERS

The following named parameters may be passed to new or configure:

on_message => CODE

on_message_MESSAGE => CODE

on_irc_error => CODE

on_ping_timeout => CODE

on_pong_reply => CODE

CODE references for event handlers.

pingtime => NUM

Amount of quiet time, in seconds, after a message is received from the peer, until a PING will be sent to check it is still alive.

pongtime => NUM

Timeout, in seconds, after sending a PING message, to wait for a PONG response.

encoding => STRING

If supplied, sets an encoding to use to encode outgoing messages and decode incoming messages.

CONSTRUCTOR

$irc = Net::Async::IRC::Protocol->new( %args )

Returns a new instance of a Net::Async::IRC::Protocol object. This object represents a IRC connection to a peer. As it is a subclass of IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream its constructor takes any arguments for that class, in addition to the parameters named below.

METHODS

$connect = $irc->is_connected

Returns true if a connection to the peer is established. Note that even after a successful connection, the connection may not yet logged in to. See also the is_loggedin method.

$loggedin = $irc->is_loggedin

Returns true if the full login sequence has been performed on the connection and it is ready to use.

$nick = $irc->nick

Returns the current nick in use by the connection.

$nick_folded = $irc->nick_folded

Returns the current nick in use by the connection, folded by casefold_name for convenience.

MESSAGE HANDLING

A message with a command of COMMAND will try handlers in following places:

1. A CODE ref in a parameter called on_message_COMMAND

    $on_message_COMMAND->( $irc, $message, \%hints )

2. A method called on_message_COMMAND

    $irc->on_message_COMMAND( $message, \%hints )

3. A CODE ref in a parameter called on_message

    $on_message->( $irc, 'COMMAND', $message, \%hints )

4. A method called on_message

    $irc->on_message( 'COMMAND', $message, \%hints )

Certain commands are handled internally by methods on the base Net::Async::IRC::Protocol class itself. These may cause other hints hash keys to be created, or to invoke other handler methods. These are documented below.

AUTHOR

Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>

cpanm Net::Async::IRC

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Net::Async::IRC