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NAME

POE::Component::DirWatch::WithCaller - An extension to POE::Component::DirWatch to pass through the name of the calling DirWatch instance, useful for cases where DirWatch sessions may be dynamically created while sharing callback functions whose behaviour may differ in small ways depending on the caller.

VERSION

Version 1.00

SYNOPSIS

Somewhat simple extension to POE::Component::DirWatch that passes the name of the calling DirWatch session to callback functions.

sub filter { my ($caller,$file) = @_; return 1; }
sub file { my ($caller,$file) = @_; }
my $monitor = POE::Component::DirWatch::WithCaller->new(
	alias			=> 'mymonitor',
	directory		=> '/my/path',
	filter			=> \&filter,
	file_callback	=> \&file,
	interval		=> 5,
);

Filtering already-seen files can be achieved as such:

sub filter { my ($caller,$file) = @_; return 1; }
sub file { my ($caller,$file) = @_; }
my $monitor = POE::Component::DirWatch::WithCaller->new(
	alias			=> 'mymonitor',
	directory		=> '/my/path',
	filter			=> \&filter,
	file_callback	=> \&file,
	interval		=> 5,
	ignore_seen		=> 1,
);

In some instances, using ignore_seen may result in some files being internally marked as 'seen' without being filtered or sent through callbacks, see below.

FILTERING PREVIOUSLY-SEEN FILES

Depending on use case, it may be beneficial or necessary to filter out previously-seen files, either for performance reasons when monitoring highly populous directories for specific files, or for avoiding reprocessing files in the event that they are left in the directory after initial processing. In this case, simply specifying ignore_seen => 1 as a named argument when creating the DirWatch::WithCaller object will enable this behaviour. While testing this feature, however, it was observed that some edge cases exist in which a file will be considered 'seen' when it has not been processed despite matching a defined monitor. To account for this, each file that has been considered 'seen' will be reprocessed once around 120 seconds after it was first 'seen'. This behaviour may not be desirable, and as such is disabled by default, and can be enabled by specifying ensure_seen => 1 when creating the object.

AUTHOR

Matthew Connelly, <maff at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-poe-component-dirwatch-withcaller at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=POE-Component-DirWatch-WithCaller. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc POE::Component::DirWatch::WithCaller

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Guillermo Roditi, <groditi@cpan.org> Robert Rothenberg, <rrwo@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

POE::Component::DirWatch, POE::Component::DirWatch::Object::NewFile

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2015 Matthew Connelly.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

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