NAME

IPC::Messaging - process handling and message passing, Erlang style

VERSION

This document describes IPC::Messaging version 0.01_14.

SYNOPSIS

use IPC::Messaging;

# Process creation
my $proc = spawn {
  receive {
    got ping => then {
      print "$$: got ping from $_\n";
      $_->pong;
    };
  };
};

# Message sending
$proc->ping;
# Message matching
receive {
  # matching message name
  got somemsg => then {
  };
  # matching message name and sender
  got pong => $proc => then {
  };
  # matching message name and content
  got msg => x => 1 => then {
  };
  # matching with a custom filter
  got msg => \&is_something => then {
  };
  # matching any message
  got _ => then {
    my ($message, $message_data, $from) = @_;
    print "$$: got $message from $from\n";
	# $_ is the same as $from:
    print "$$: got $_[0] from $_\n";
  };
  after 2 => then {
    print "$$: timeout\n";
  };
};

# TCP via message matching
IPC::Messaging->tcp_server(1111);
while (1) {
  receive {
    got tcp_connect => then {
      print "connect from $_[1]->{from}\n";
      print $_ "hi\n"; 
    };
    got tcp_data => then {
      print "got data: $_[1]->{data}\n";
    };
    got tcp_disconnect => then {
      print "disconnect from $_[1]->{from}\n";
    };
  };
}

DESCRIPTION

This is a preliminary development version, and as such it is extremely poorly documented.

DEPENDENCIES

Perl 5.8.4 or above, B::Generate, Module::Load::Conditional.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

This module, in all likelihood, will only work on Unix-like operating systems.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs known. The API is a moving target. To be useful, reads from sockets in form of messages must be supported to a greater degree than they are now.

AUTHOR

Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007-2010, Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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