NAME
MySQL::Slurp::Writer - Adds buffering / locking writing to MySQL::Slurp
SYNOPSIS
my $writer = MySQL::Slurp::Writer->new( ... );
$writer->print( "records\tto\tprint\n" );DESCRIPTION
This module wraps IO::File to provide a thread-safe method for writing to a file handles. The method is simple ... writing is buffered; the file handle is locked; the output is written to the file handle, the lock is released.
METHODS
new
Create a new MySQL::Slurp::Writer object
- buffer
-
The size of the buffer. The default is 1 record, i.e. no buffering.
- filename
-
The filename of the IO::File object
Write arguments to the buffer and if the buffer is full, commit to the file handle
flush
Flush the buffer
close
Closes the writing file handle
lock_ex
Block until an exclusive lock can be made on the file handle
lock_un
Release the lock
TODO
- item Generalize to object independent of MySQL::Slurp
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Christopher Brown, <ctbrown@cpan.org<gt>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2008 by Open Data
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.