NAME
Reflex::POE::Wheel - Base class for POE::Wheel wrappers.
VERSION
This document describes version 0.090, released on July 30, 2011.
SYNOPSIS
There is no concise synopsis at this time. Setting up a new Reflex::POE::Wheel is rather involved. The source for Reflex::POE::Wheel::Run may serve as an example.
DESCRIPTION
Reflex::POE::Wheel is a base class for Reflex objects that wrap and watch POE::Wheel objects. Subclasses define a handful of methods that describe the wheels they wrap. Reflex::POE::Wheel will use the configuration to validate constructor parameters, map wheel events to Reflex events, and map positional callback parameters to named ones.
It's rather handy once you get used to it.
Public Attributes
wheel
Currently Reflex::POE::Wheel exposes the raw POE::Wheel via its wheel() attribute. This will be undefined if the wheel hasn't been set up yet.
Public Methods
wheel_id
The wheel_id() method returns the ID of the POE::Wheel being managed. $foo->wheel()->ID() can also be used instead.
demolish_wheel
Cause the internal wheel to be demolished. Provided as a method since some wheels may require special handling.
put
put() sends its parameters to the POE::Wheel's put() method.
$reflex_poe_wheel->put("one", "two");Required Subclass Methods
These subclass methods are used to configure subclasses for their chosen POE::Wheel objects.
event_to_index
event_to_index() maps POE::Wheel events to consecutive integer event IDs. event_emit_names() will provide Reflex-friendly event names based on the event IDs. event_param_names() will provide parameter names that correspond to the wheel's positional parameters.
This mapping is from Reflex::POE::Wheel::Run. It will make more sense in the context of event_emit_names() and event_param_names().
sub event_to_index {
return(
{
StdinEvent => 0,
StdoutEvent => 1,
StderrEvent => 2,
ErrorEvent => 3,
CloseEvent => 4,
},
);
}event_emit_names
event_emit_names() returns an array reference that maps Reflex::POE::Wheel's event IDs to Reflex-friendly event names.
Here's an example from Reflex::POE::Wheel::Run. The wheel's StdinEvent (ID 0) is emitted as "stdin" (the 0th element in event_emit_names()). StdoutEvent becomes "stdout", and so on.
sub event_emit_names {
return(
[
'stdin', # StdinEvent
'stdout', # StdoutEvent
'stderr', # StderrEvent
'error', # ErrorEvent
'closed', # ClosedEvent
],
);
}event_param_names
event_param_names() returns an array reference that maps Reflex::POE::Wheel's event IDs to Reflex-friendly lists of parameter names. The underlying POE::Wheel's positional parameters will be mapped to these names before the Reflex object emits them.
Here's yet another example from Reflex::POE::Wheel::Run. StdinEvent and StdoutEvent each return two parameters. The Reflex object will emit their ARG0 as the named parameter "output", and ARG1 becomes the named parameter "wheel_id".
sub event_param_names {
return(
[
[ "wheel_id" ],
[ "output", "wheel_id" ],
[ "output", "wheel_id" ],
[ "operation", "errnum", "errstr", "wheel_id", "handle_name" ],
[ "wheel_id" ],
]
);
}wheel_class
wheel_class() returns a simple string---the class name of the wheel to construct.
valid_params
The valid_params() method returns a hash reference keyed on valid constructor parameters. Values don't matter at this time. Reflex::POE::Wheel uses this hash reference to pre-validate construction of underlying POE::Wheel objects.
POE::Wheel::Run takes quite a lot of parameters, most of which are optional.
sub valid_params {
return(
{
CloseOnCall => 1,
Conduit => 1,
Filter => 1,
Group => 1,
NoSetPgrp => 1,
NoSetSid => 1,
Priority => 1,
Program => 1,
ProgramArgs => 1,
StderrDriver => 1,
StderrFilter => 1,
StdinDriver => 1,
StdinFilter => 1,
StdioDriver => 1,
StdioFilter => 1,
StdoutDriver => 1,
StdoutFilter => 1,
User => 1,
}
);
}CAVEATS
The demolish() name is heading towards deprecation in favor of something shorter and more widely recognized, perhaps stop(). The jury is still out, however.
Methods are not yet converted automatically. It seems more sensible to provide a native Reflex::Base interface. On the other hand, it may be possible for Moose's "handles" attribute option to pass the wheel's methods through the wrapper. More investigation is required.
wheel() or wheel_id() will be deprecated, depending upon which is considered redundant.
SEE ALSO
Please see those modules/websites for more information related to this module.
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
No bugs have been reported.
Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.
AUTHOR
Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Rocco Caputo.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
AVAILABILITY
The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ to find a CPAN site near you, or see http://search.cpan.org/dist/Reflex/.
The development version lives at http://github.com/rcaputo/reflex and may be cloned from git://github.com/rcaputo/reflex.git. Instead of sending patches, please fork this project using the standard git and github infrastructure.
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