SYNOPSIS

my $msg = UR::Service::RPC::Message->create(
target_class => 'URT::RPC::Thingy',
method_name => 'join',
params => ['-', @join_args],
'wantarray' => 0,
);
$msg->send($fh);
my $resp = UR::Service::RPC::Message->recv($fh, 5);

DESCRIPTION

This class is used as a message-passing interface by the RPC service modules.

PROPERTIES

These properties should be filled in by the initiating caller

method_name => Text

The name of the subroutine the initiator whishes to call.

target_class => Text

The namespace the initiator wants the subroutine to be called in

params => ARRAY

List of parameters to pass to the subroutine

wantarray => Boolean

What wantarray() context the subroutine should be called in.

These properties are assigned after the RPC call to the subroutine

return_values => ARRAY

List of values returned by the subroutine

exception

On the receiving side, the subroutine is called within an eval. If there was an exception, "exception" stores the value of $@, or the empty string. The receiving side should also fill-in "exception" if there was an authentication failure.

fh

"recv" fills this in with the file handle the message was read from.

METHODS

send

  $bytes = $msg->send($fh);

Serializes the Message object with FreezeThaw and writes the data to the filehandle $fh. Returns the number of bytes written. $bytes will be false if there was an error.

recv

  $response = UR::Service::RPC::Message->recv($fh,$timeout);
  $response = $msg->recv();

Reads a serialized Message from the filehandle and constructs a Message object that is then returned to the caller. In the first case, it reads from the given filehandle, waiting a maximum of $timeout seconds with select before giving up. In the second case, it reads from whatever filehandle is stored in $msg to read data from.