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5=head1 SYNOPSIS 5=head1 SYNOPSIS
6 6
7 use AnyEvent::MP; 7 use AnyEvent::MP;
8 8
9 NODE # returns this node identifier
10 $NODE # contains this node identifier
11
12 snd $port, type => data...;
13
14 rcv $port, smartmatch => $cb->($port, @msg);
15
16 # examples:
17 rcv $port2, ping => sub { snd $_[0], "pong"; 0 };
18 rcv $port1, pong => sub { warn "pong received\n" };
19 snd $port2, ping => $port1;
20
21 # more, smarter, matches (_any_ is exported by this module)
22 rcv $port, [child_died => $pid] => sub { ...
23 rcv $port, [_any_, _any_, 3] => sub { .. $_[2] is 3
24
9=head1 DESCRIPTION 25=head1 DESCRIPTION
10 26
27This module (-family) implements a simple message passing framework.
28
29Despite its simplicity, you can securely message other processes running
30on the same or other hosts.
31
32At the moment, this module family is severly brokena nd underdocumented,
33so do not use. This was uploaded mainly to resreve the CPAN namespace -
34stay tuned!
35
36=head1 CONCEPTS
37
38=over 4
39
40=item port
41
42A port is something you can send messages to with the C<snd> function, and
43you can register C<rcv> handlers with. All C<rcv> handlers will receive
44messages they match, messages will not be queued.
45
46=item port id - C<noderef#portname>
47
48A port id is always the noderef, a hash-mark (C<#>) as separator, followed
49by a port name (a printable string of unspecified format).
50
51=item node
52
53A node is a single process containing at least one port - the node
54port. You can send messages to node ports to let them create new ports,
55among other things.
56
57Initially, nodes are either private (single-process only) or hidden
58(connected to a master node only). Only when they epxlicitly "become
59public" can you send them messages from unrelated other nodes.
60
61=item noderef - C<host:port,host:port...>, C<id@noderef>, C<id>
62
63A noderef is a string that either uniquely identifies a given node (for
64private and hidden nodes), or contains a recipe on how to reach a given
65node (for public nodes).
66
67=back
68
69=head1 VARIABLES/FUNCTIONS
70
71=over 4
72
11=cut 73=cut
12 74
13package AnyEvent::MP; 75package AnyEvent::MP;
14 76
77use AnyEvent::MP::Base;
78
15use common::sense; 79use common::sense;
16 80
81use Carp ();
82
17use AE (); 83use AE ();
18 84
85use base "Exporter";
86
19our $VERSION = '0.0'; 87our $VERSION = '0.02';
88our @EXPORT = qw(
89 NODE $NODE $PORT snd rcv _any_
90 create_port create_port_on
91 create_miniport
92 become_slave become_public
93);
20 94
21sub nonce($) { 95=item NODE / $NODE
22 my $nonce;
23 96
24 if (open my $fh, "</dev/urandom") { 97The C<NODE ()> function and the C<$NODE> variable contain the noderef of
25 sysread $fh, $nonce, $_[0]; 98the local node. The value is initialised by a call to C<become_public> or
99C<become_slave>, after which all local port identifiers become invalid.
100
101=item snd $portid, type => @data
102
103=item snd $portid, @msg
104
105Send the given message to the given port ID, which can identify either
106a local or a remote port, and can be either a string or soemthignt hat
107stringifies a sa port ID (such as a port object :).
108
109While the message can be about anything, it is highly recommended to use a
110string as first element (a portid, or some word that indicates a request
111type etc.).
112
113The message data effectively becomes read-only after a call to this
114function: modifying any argument is not allowed and can cause many
115problems.
116
117The type of data you can transfer depends on the transport protocol: when
118JSON is used, then only strings, numbers and arrays and hashes consisting
119of those are allowed (no objects). When Storable is used, then anything
120that Storable can serialise and deserialise is allowed, and for the local
121node, anything can be passed.
122
123=item $local_port = create_port
124
125Create a new local port object. See the next section for allowed methods.
126
127=cut
128
129sub create_port {
130 my $id = "$AnyEvent::MP::Base::UNIQ." . ++$AnyEvent::MP::Base::ID;
131
132 my $self = bless {
133 id => "$NODE#$id",
134 names => [$id],
135 }, "AnyEvent::MP::Port";
136
137 $AnyEvent::MP::Base::PORT{$id} = sub {
138 unshift @_, $self;
139
140 for (@{ $self->{rc0}{$_[1]} }) {
141 $_ && &{$_->[0]}
142 && undef $_;
143 }
144
145 for (@{ $self->{rcv}{$_[1]} }) {
146 $_ && [@_[1 .. @{$_->[1]}]] ~~ $_->[1]
147 && &{$_->[0]}
148 && undef $_;
149 }
150
151 for (@{ $self->{any} }) {
152 $_ && [@_[0 .. $#{$_->[1]}]] ~~ $_->[1]
153 && &{$_->[0]}
154 && undef $_;
155 }
156 };
157
158 $self
159}
160
161=item $portid = create_miniport { }
162
163Creates a "mini port", that is, a port without much #TODO
164
165=cut
166
167sub create_miniport(&) {
168 my $cb = shift;
169 my $id = "$AnyEvent::MP::Base::UNIQ." . ++$AnyEvent::MP::Base::ID;
170
171 $AnyEvent::MP::Base::PORT{$id} = sub {
172# unshift @_, "$NODE#$id";
173 &$cb
174 and delete $AnyEvent::MP::Base::PORT{$id};
175 };
176
177 "$NODE#$id"
178}
179
180package AnyEvent::MP::Port;
181
182=back
183
184=head1 METHODS FOR PORT OBJECTS
185
186=over 4
187
188=item "$port"
189
190A port object stringifies to its port ID, so can be used directly for
191C<snd> operations.
192
193=cut
194
195use overload
196 '""' => sub { $_[0]{id} },
197 fallback => 1;
198
199=item $port->rcv (type => $callback->($port, @msg))
200
201=item $port->rcv ($smartmatch => $callback->($port, @msg))
202
203=item $port->rcv ([$smartmatch...] => $callback->($port, @msg))
204
205Register a callback on the given port.
206
207The callback has to return a true value when its work is done, after
208which is will be removed, or a false value in which case it will stay
209registered.
210
211If the match is an array reference, then it will be matched against the
212first elements of the message, otherwise only the first element is being
213matched.
214
215Any element in the match that is specified as C<_any_> (a function
216exported by this module) matches any single element of the message.
217
218While not required, it is highly recommended that the first matching
219element is a string identifying the message. The one-string-only match is
220also the most efficient match (by far).
221
222=cut
223
224sub rcv($@) {
225 my ($self, $match, $cb) = @_;
226
227 if (!ref $match) {
228 push @{ $self->{rc0}{$match} }, [$cb];
229 } elsif (("ARRAY" eq ref $match && !ref $match->[0])) {
230 my ($type, @match) = @$match;
231 @match
232 ? push @{ $self->{rcv}{$match->[0]} }, [$cb, \@match]
233 : push @{ $self->{rc0}{$match->[0]} }, [$cb];
26 } else { 234 } else {
27 # shit... 235 push @{ $self->{any} }, [$cb, $match];
28 our $nonce_init;
29 unless ($nonce_init++) {
30 srand time ^ $$ ^ unpack "%L*", qx"ps -edalf" . qx"ipconfig /all";
31 }
32
33 $nonce = join "", map +(chr rand 256), 1 .. $_[0]
34 } 236 }
35
36 $nonce
37} 237}
38 238
39our $DEFAULT_SECRET; 239=item $port->register ($name)
40 240
41sub default_secret { 241Registers the given port under the well known name C<$name>. If the name
42 unless (defined $DEFAULT_SECRET) { 242already exists it is replaced.
43 if (open my $fh, "<$ENV{HOME}/.aemp-secret") {
44 sysread $fh, $DEFAULT_SECRET, -s $fh;
45 } else {
46 $DEFAULT_SECRET = nonce 32;
47 }
48 }
49 243
50 $DEFAULT_SECRET 244A port can only be registered under one well known name.
245
246=cut
247
248sub register {
249 my ($self, $name) = @_;
250
251 $self->{wkname} = $name;
252 $AnyEvent::MP::Base::WKP{$name} = "$self";
51} 253}
254
255=item $port->destroy
256
257Explicitly destroy/remove/nuke/vaporise the port.
258
259Ports are normally kept alive by there mere existance alone, and need to
260be destroyed explicitly.
261
262=cut
263
264sub destroy {
265 my ($self) = @_;
266
267 delete $AnyEvent::MP::Base::WKP{ $self->{wkname} };
268
269 delete $AnyEvent::MP::Base::PORT{$_}
270 for @{ $self->{names} };
271}
272
273=back
274
275=head1 FUNCTIONS FOR NODES
276
277=over 4
278
279=item mon $noderef, $callback->($noderef, $status, $)
280
281Monitors the given noderef.
282
283=item become_public endpoint...
284
285Tells the node to become a public node, i.e. reachable from other nodes.
286
287If no arguments are given, or the first argument is C<undef>, then
288AnyEvent::MP tries to bind on port C<4040> on all IP addresses that the
289local nodename resolves to.
290
291Otherwise the first argument must be an array-reference with transport
292endpoints ("ip:port", "hostname:port") or port numbers (in which case the
293local nodename is used as hostname). The endpoints are all resolved and
294will become the node reference.
295
296=cut
297
298=back
299
300=head1 NODE MESSAGES
301
302Nodes understand the following messages sent to them. Many of them take
303arguments called C<@reply>, which will simply be used to compose a reply
304message - C<$reply[0]> is the port to reply to, C<$reply[1]> the type and
305the remaining arguments are simply the message data.
306
307=over 4
308
309=cut
310
311=item wkp => $name, @reply
312
313Replies with the port ID of the specified well-known port, or C<undef>.
314
315=item devnull => ...
316
317Generic data sink/CPU heat conversion.
318
319=item relay => $port, @msg
320
321Simply forwards the message to the given port.
322
323=item eval => $string[ @reply]
324
325Evaluates the given string. If C<@reply> is given, then a message of the
326form C<@reply, $@, @evalres> is sent.
327
328Example: crash another node.
329
330 snd $othernode, eval => "exit";
331
332=item time => @reply
333
334Replies the the current node time to C<@reply>.
335
336Example: tell the current node to send the current time to C<$myport> in a
337C<timereply> message.
338
339 snd $NODE, time => $myport, timereply => 1, 2;
340 # => snd $myport, timereply => 1, 2, <time>
341
342=back
52 343
53=head1 SEE ALSO 344=head1 SEE ALSO
54 345
55L<AnyEvent>. 346L<AnyEvent>.
56 347

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