NAME
IO::Socket::Timeout - IO::Socket with read/write timeout
VERSION
version 0.22
SYNOPSIS
use IO::Socket::With::Timeout;
# creates a standard IO::Socket::INET object, with a connection timeout
my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new( Timeout => 2 );
# enable read and write timeouts on the socket
IO::Socket::Timeout->enable_timeouts_on($socket);
# setup the timeouts
$socket->read_timeout(0.5);
$socket->write_timeout(0.5);
# When using the socket:
use Errno qw(ETIMEDOUT EWOULDBLOCK);
print $socket $request;
my $response = <$socket>;
if (! $response && ( 0+$! == ETIMEDOUT || 0+$! == EWOULDBLOCK )) {
die "timeout reading on the socket";
}DESCRIPTION
IO::Socket provides a way to set a timeout on the socket, but the timeout will be used only for connection, not for reading / writing operations.
This module provides a way to set a timeout on read / write operations on an IO::Socket instance, or any IO::Socket::* modules, like IO::Socket::INET.
CLASS METHOD
enable_timeouts_on
IO::Socket::Timeout->enable_timeouts_on($socket);Given a socket, it'll return it, but will enable read and write timeouts on it. You'll have to use read_timeout and write_timeout on it later on.
Returns the socket, so that you can chain this method with others.
If the argument is undef, the method simply returns empty list.
METHODS
These methods are to be called on a socket that has been previously passed to enable_timeouts_on().
read_timeout
my $current_timeout = $socket->read_timeout();
$socket->read_timeout($new_timeout);Get or set the read timeout value for a socket created with this module.
write_timeout
my $current_timeout = $socket->write_timeout();
$socket->write_timeout($new_timeout);Get or set the write timeout value for a socket created with this module.
disable_timeout
$socket->disable_timeout;Disable the read and write timeouts for a socket created with this module.
enable_timeout
$socket->enable_timeout;Re-enable the read and write timeouts for a socket created with this module.
timeout_enabled
my $is_timeout_enabled = $socket->timeout_enabled();
$socket->timeout_enabled(0);Get or Set the fact that a socket has timeouts enabled.
WHEN TIMEOUT IS HIT
When a timeout (read, write) is hit on the socket, the function trying to be performed will return undef or empty string, and $! will be set to ETIMEOUT or EWOULDBLOCK. You should test for both.
You can import ETIMEOUT and EWOULDBLOCK by using POSIX:
use Errno qw(ETIMEDOUT EWOULDBLOCK);IF YOU NEED TO RETRY
If you want to implement a try / wait / retry mechanism, I recommend using a third-party module, like Action::Retry. Something like this:
my $socket;
my $action = Action::Retry->new(
attempt_code => sub {
# (re-)create the socket if needed
if (! $socket) {
$socket = IO::Socket->new(...);
IO::Socket::Timeout->enable_timeouts_on($socket);
$socket->read_timeout(0.5);
}
# send the request, read the answer
$socket->print($_[0]);
defined(my $answer = $socket->getline)
or $socket = undef, die $!;
$answer;
},
on_failure_code => sub { die 'aborting, to many retries' },
);
my $reply = $action->run('GET mykey');ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE
PERL_IO_SOCKET_TIMEOUT_FORCE_SELECT
This module implements timeouts using one of two strategy. If possible (if the operating system is linux or mac), it uses setsockopt() to set read / write timeouts. Otherwise it uses select() before performing socket operations.
To force the use of select(), you can set PERL_IO_SOCKET_TIMEOUT_FORCE_SELECT to a true value at compile time (typically in a BEGIN block)
SEE ALSO
Action::Retry, IO::Select, PerlIO::via::Timeout, Time::Out
THANKS
Thanks to Vincent Pitt, Christian Hansen and Toby Inkster for various help and useful remarks.
AUTHOR
Damien "dams" Krotkine
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Damien "dams" Krotkine.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.