NAME

Supervisor::RPC::Client - The client interface to the Supervisors environment

SYNOPSIS

use Supervisor::RPC::Client;

my $rpc = Supervisor::RPC::Client->new()
my $result = $rpc->start('sleeper');

DESCRIPTION

This is the client module for external access to the Supervisor. It provides methods to start/stop/reload and retrieve the status of managed processes.

METHODS

new

This initilaize the module and can take two parameters.

Example:

    my $rpc = Supervisor::RPC::Client->new(
       -port    => 9505,
       -address => 'localhost'
    };

start

This method will start a managed process. It takes one parameter, the name of the process, and returns "started" if successful.

Example:

    my $result = $rpc->start('sleeper');

stop

This method will stop a managed process. It takes one parameter, the name of the process, and returns "stopped" if successful.

Example:

    my $result = $rpc->stop('sleeper');

status

This method will do a "stat" on a managed process. It takes one parameter, the name of the process, and returns "alive" if the process is running or "dead" if the process is not.

reload

This method will attempt to "reload" a managed process. It takes one parameter, the name of the process. It will return "reloaded".

Example:

    my $result = $rpc->reload('sleeper');

SEE ALSO

Supervisor
Supervisor::Base
Supervisor::Class
Supervisor::Constants
Supervisor::Controller
Supervisor::Log
Supervisor::Process
Supervisor::ProcessFactory
Supervisor::Session
Supervisor::Utils
Supervisor::RPC::Server
Supervisor::RPC::Client

AUTHOR

Kevin L. Esteb, <kesteb@wsipc.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2009 by Kevin L. Esteb

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.