IKC::Specifier(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation IKC::Specifier(3)

POE::Component::IKC::Specifier - IKC event specifer

use POE;
use POE::Component::IKC::Specifier;
$state=specifier_parse('poe://*/timeserver/connect');
print 'The foreign state is '.specifier_name($state);

This is a helper module that encapsulates POE IKC specifiers. An IKC specifier is a way of designating either a kernel, a session or a state within a IKC cluster.

IKC specifiers have the folloing format :

poe:://kernel/session/state

kernel may a kernel name, a kernel ID, blank (for local kernel), a '*' (all known foreign kernels) or host:port (not currently supported).

session may be any session alias that has been published by the foreign kernel.

state is a state that has been published by a foreign session.

Examples :

"poe://Pulse/timeserver/connect"
State 'connect' in session 'timeserver' on kernel 'Pulse'.
"poe:/timeserver/connect"
State 'connect' in session 'timeserver' on the local kernel.
"poe://*/timeserver/connect"
State 'connect' in session 'timeserver' on any known foreign kernel.
"poe://Billy/bob/"
Session 'bob' on foreign kernel 'Billy'.

Turn a specifier into the internal representation (hash ref). Returns undef() if the specifier wasn't valid.

print Dumper specifer_parse('poe://Pulse/timeserver/time');

would print

$VAR1 = {
    kernel => 'Pulse',
    session => 'timeserver',
    state => 'time',
};

Note : the internal representation might very well change some day.

Turns a specifier into a string.

Philip Gwyn, <perl-ikc at pied.nu>

Copyright 1999-2014 by Philip Gwyn. All rights reserved.

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2024-09-01 perl v5.40.0