NAME

POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::FollowTail - A PoCo-IRC plugin to follow the tail of an ever-growing file

SYNOPSIS

 use POE qw(Component::IRC Component::IRC::Plugin::FollowTail);

 my $nickname = 'Flibble' . $$;
 my $ircname = 'Flibble the Sailor Bot';
 my $ircserver = 'irc.blahblahblah.irc';
 my $filename = '/some/such/file/here';
 my @channels = ( '#Blah', '#Foo', '#Bar' );

 my $irc = POE::Component::IRC->spawn(
     nick => $nickname,
     server => $ircserver,
     port => $port,
     ircname => $ircname,
 ) or die "Oh noooo! $!";

 POE::Session->create(
     package_states => [
         main => [ qw(_start irc_001 irc_tail_input irc_tail_error irc_tail_reset) ],
     ],
 );

  $poe_kernel->run();

 sub _start {
     $irc->plugin_add( 'FollowTail' => POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::FollowTail->new(
         filename => $filename,
     ));
     $irc->yield( register => 'all' );
     $irc->yield( connect => { } );
     return;
 }

 sub irc_001 {
     $irc->yield( join => $_ ) for @channels;
     return;
 }

 sub irc_tail_input {
     my ($kernel, $sender, $filename, $input) = @_[KERNEL, SENDER, ARG0, ARG1];
     $kernel->post( $sender, 'privmsg', $_, "$filename: $input" ) for @channels;
     return;
 }

 sub irc_tail_error {
     my ($kernel, $sender, $filename, $errnum, $errstring)
         = @_[KERNEL, SENDER, ARG0 .. ARG2];
     $kernel->post( $sender, 'privmsg', $_, "$filename: ERROR: $errnum $errstring" ) for @channels;
     $irc->plugin_del( 'FollowTail' );
     return;
 }

 sub irc_tail_reset {
     my ($kernel, $sender, $filename) = @_[KERNEL, SENDER, ARG0];
     $kernel->post( $sender, 'privmsg', $_, "$filename: RESET EVENT" ) for @channels;
     return;
 }

DESCRIPTION

POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::FollowTail is a POE::Component::IRC plugin that uses POE::Wheel::FollowTail to follow the end of an ever-growing file. It generates "irc_tail_" prefixed events for each new record that is appended to its file.

METHODS

"new"

Takes two arguments:

'filename', the name of the file to tail, mandatory;

'filter', a POE::Filter object to pass to POE::Wheel::FollowTail, optional;

Returns a plugin object suitable for feeding to POE::Component::IRC's "plugin_add" method.

OUTPUT EVENTS

The plugin generates the following additional POE::Component::IRC events:

"irc_tail_input"

Emitted for every complete record read. "ARG0" will be the filename, "ARG1" the record which was read.

"irc_tail_error"

Emitted whenever an error occurs. "ARG0" will be the filename, "ARG1" and "ARG2" hold numeric and string values for $!, respectively.

"irc_tail_reset"

Emitted every time a file is reset. "ARG0" will be the filename.

AUTHOR

Chris 'BinGOs' Williams