NAME

Zing::Registry - Process Registry

ABSTRACT

Generic Process Registry

SYNOPSIS

  use Zing::Process;
  use Zing::Registry;

  my $process = Zing::Process->new;
  my $registry = Zing::Registry->new(process => $process);

  # $registry->recv($process);

DESCRIPTION

This package provides a process registry for tracking active processes.

INHERITS

This package inherits behaviors from:

Zing::KeyVal

LIBRARIES

This package uses type constraints from:

Zing::Types

ATTRIBUTES

This package has the following attributes:

name

  name(Str)

This attribute is read-only, accepts (Str) values, and is optional.

METHODS

This package implements the following methods:

drop

  drop(Process $proc) : Int

The drop method returns truthy if the process can be dropped from the registry.

drop example #1

  # given: synopsis

  $registry->drop($process);

recv

  recv(Process $proc) : Maybe[HashRef]

The recv method fetches the process metadata (if any) from the registry.

recv example #1

  # given: synopsis

  $registry->recv($process);

recv example #2

  # given: synopsis

  $registry->send($process);

  $registry->recv($process);

send

  send(Process $proc) : Str

The send method commits the process metadata to the registry overwriting any existing data.

send example #1

  # given: synopsis

  $registry->send($process);

send example #2

  # given: synopsis

  $registry->drop;

  $registry->send($process);

term

  term(Str @keys) : Str

The term method generates a term (safe string) for the registry.

term example #1

  # given: synopsis

  $registry->term($process->name);

AUTHOR

Al Newkirk, awncorp@cpan.org

LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the The Apache License, Version 2.0, as elucidated in the "license file".