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NAME

Interact::Later - Delay some tasks for later.

VERSION

Version 0.03

SYNOPSIS

Can be used typically when you receive lots of POST requests that you don't want to proceed right now. This module will fastly store the data content on disk without the need to use a database.

    use Interact::Later;

    my $delayer = Interact::Later->new(
      cache_path => './cache/',
      file_extension => '.dmp'
    );

    $delayer->write_data_to_disk($data);

    # Later...
    $delayer->clean_cache;

EXPORT

A list of functions that can be exported. You can delete this section if you don't export anything, such as for a purely object-oriented module.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

get_oldest_file_in_the_cache

Retrieve the oldest file in the cache

clean_cache

generate_uuid

write_data_to_disk

Writes the cache files to disk using Storable. It also checks that the cache path exists and if not, it creates it.

retrieve_data_from_disk

AUTHOR

Sébastien Feugère, <smonff at riseup.net>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-interact-later at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Interact-Later. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Interact::Later

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2019 Sébastien Feugère.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0

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