NAME
Wx::Data::Manager - Managing asynchrounous Wx controls data requests (with POE!)
DESCRIPTION
Wx::Data::Manager gives the capabilities to fetch data directly from your Wx controls, asychronously !
Since it uses POE, you should know that it can be used in your programs if you already have a POE loop running. But since you use wxPerl we believe the POE event loop is very appropriate for wxPerl and we encourage you to take a look at this.
Wx::Data::Manager is very modular and you can add functionnalities as plugins very simply, you can add your own plugins too !
You can use different engines to access data sources through various protocols.
The first release comes with a single engine, which is HTTP.
SYNOPSYS
use Wx::Data::Manager;
# let's fetch something from yahoo, it's possible to spawn several
# data managers that would reply on differents POE aliases with
# various engines
# each data manager creates its own session and other session as
# needed by engines or plugins
Wx::Data::Manager->spawn({
alias => 'test_data_manager',
engine => {
name => 'Wx::Data::Engine::HTTP',
server => "http://www.yahoo.com",
alias => 'http_engine'
},
});
# the POE loop ! .. here comes the voodoo
POE::Kernel->run;
# you can create controls and make them inherit from Wx::Data::Controls
# that will allow you do data calls very easily from your controls like this
my $control = Control->new(undef, -1, 'test', [0,0], [10,10]);
$control->refresh_data( undef, {
uri => "/",
data_manager => 'test_data_manager',
});AUTHORS
Ed Heil <ed@donorware.com>, Mike Schroeder <mike@donorware.com>, Eriam Schaffter <eriam@cpan.org>