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NAME

App::BrowserUtils - Utilities related to browsers, particularly modern GUI ones

VERSION

This document describes version 0.001 of App::BrowserUtils (from Perl distribution App-BrowserUtils), released on 2019-12-09.

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

This distribution includes several utilities related to browsers:

FUNCTIONS

browsers_are_paused

Usage:

 browsers_are_paused(%args) -> [status, msg, payload, meta]

Check whether browsers are paused.

Browser is defined as paused if all of its processes are in 'stop' state.

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • quiet => true

  • users => array[unix::local_uid]

    Kill browser processes that belong to certain user(s) only.

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (payload) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

Return value: (any)

pause_browsers

Usage:

 pause_browsers(%args) -> [status, msg, payload, meta]

Pause (kill -STOP) browsers.

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • users => array[unix::local_uid]

    Kill browser processes that belong to certain user(s) only.

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (payload) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

Return value: (any)

ps_browsers

Usage:

 ps_browsers(%args) -> [status, msg, payload, meta]

List browser processes.

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • users => array[unix::local_uid]

    Kill browser processes that belong to certain user(s) only.

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (payload) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

Return value: (any)

terminate_browsers

Usage:

 terminate_browsers(%args) -> [status, msg, payload, meta]

Terminate (kill -KILL) browsers.

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • users => array[unix::local_uid]

    Kill browser processes that belong to certain user(s) only.

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (payload) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

Return value: (any)

unpause_browsers

Usage:

 unpause_browsers(%args) -> [status, msg, payload, meta]

Unpause (resume, continue, kill -CONT) browsers.

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • users => array[unix::local_uid]

    Kill browser processes that belong to certain user(s) only.

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (payload) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

Return value: (any)

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-BrowserUtils.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-BrowserUtils.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-BrowserUtils

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

Utilities using this distribution: App::FirefoxUtils, App::ChromeUtils, App::OperaUtils, App::VivaldiUtils

App::BrowserOpenUtils

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2019 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.