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  1. data/.gitignore +2 -0
  2. data/Gemfile +1 -0
  3. data/README +1 -2
  4. data/Rakefile +4 -76
  5. data/docs/DEFERRABLES +183 -70
  6. data/docs/KEYBOARD +15 -11
  7. data/docs/LIGHTWEIGHT_CONCURRENCY +84 -24
  8. data/docs/SMTP +3 -1
  9. data/docs/SPAWNED_PROCESSES +84 -25
  10. data/eventmachine.gemspec +19 -26
  11. data/examples/ex_tick_loop_array.rb +15 -0
  12. data/examples/ex_tick_loop_counter.rb +32 -0
  13. data/ext/binder.cpp +0 -1
  14. data/ext/cmain.cpp +36 -11
  15. data/ext/cplusplus.cpp +1 -1
  16. data/ext/ed.cpp +104 -113
  17. data/ext/ed.h +24 -30
  18. data/ext/em.cpp +347 -248
  19. data/ext/em.h +23 -16
  20. data/ext/eventmachine.h +5 -3
  21. data/ext/extconf.rb +5 -3
  22. data/ext/fastfilereader/extconf.rb +5 -3
  23. data/ext/fastfilereader/mapper.cpp +1 -1
  24. data/ext/kb.cpp +1 -3
  25. data/ext/pipe.cpp +9 -11
  26. data/ext/project.h +12 -4
  27. data/ext/rubymain.cpp +138 -89
  28. data/java/src/com/rubyeventmachine/EmReactor.java +1 -0
  29. data/lib/em/channel.rb +1 -1
  30. data/lib/em/connection.rb +6 -1
  31. data/lib/em/deferrable.rb +16 -2
  32. data/lib/em/iterator.rb +270 -0
  33. data/lib/em/protocols.rb +1 -1
  34. data/lib/em/protocols/httpclient.rb +5 -0
  35. data/lib/em/protocols/line_protocol.rb +28 -0
  36. data/lib/em/protocols/smtpserver.rb +101 -8
  37. data/lib/em/protocols/stomp.rb +1 -1
  38. data/lib/{pr_eventmachine.rb → em/pure_ruby.rb} +1 -11
  39. data/lib/em/queue.rb +1 -0
  40. data/lib/em/streamer.rb +1 -1
  41. data/lib/em/tick_loop.rb +85 -0
  42. data/lib/em/timers.rb +2 -1
  43. data/lib/em/version.rb +1 -1
  44. data/lib/eventmachine.rb +38 -84
  45. data/lib/jeventmachine.rb +1 -0
  46. data/tests/test_attach.rb +13 -3
  47. data/tests/test_basic.rb +60 -95
  48. data/tests/test_channel.rb +3 -2
  49. data/tests/test_defer.rb +14 -12
  50. data/tests/test_deferrable.rb +35 -0
  51. data/tests/test_file_watch.rb +1 -1
  52. data/tests/test_futures.rb +1 -1
  53. data/tests/test_hc.rb +40 -68
  54. data/tests/test_httpclient.rb +15 -6
  55. data/tests/test_httpclient2.rb +3 -2
  56. data/tests/test_inactivity_timeout.rb +3 -3
  57. data/tests/test_ltp.rb +13 -5
  58. data/tests/test_next_tick.rb +1 -1
  59. data/tests/test_pending_connect_timeout.rb +2 -2
  60. data/tests/test_process_watch.rb +36 -34
  61. data/tests/test_proxy_connection.rb +52 -0
  62. data/tests/test_pure.rb +10 -1
  63. data/tests/test_sasl.rb +1 -1
  64. data/tests/test_send_file.rb +16 -7
  65. data/tests/test_servers.rb +1 -1
  66. data/tests/test_tick_loop.rb +59 -0
  67. data/tests/test_timers.rb +13 -15
  68. metadata +45 -17
  69. data/web/whatis +0 -7
data/.gitignore CHANGED
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  *.log
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  *.def
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+ *.dSYM
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  java/src/.project
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+ *.rbc
data/Gemfile ADDED
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+ gemspec
data/README CHANGED
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  Homepage:: http://rubyeventmachine.com
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  Rubyforge Page:: http://rubyforge.org/projects/eventmachine
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  Google Group:: http://groups.google.com/group/eventmachine
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- Mailing List:: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/eventmachine-talk
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  RDoc:: http://eventmachine.rubyforge.org
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- IRC:: ##eventmachine on irc.freenode.net
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+ IRC:: #eventmachine on irc.freenode.net
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  Copyright:: (C) 2006-07 by Francis Cianfrocca. All Rights Reserved.
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  Email:: gmail address: garbagecat10
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  #!/usr/bin/env rake
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- #--
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+ #
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  # Ruby/EventMachine
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  # http://rubyeventmachine.com
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  # Copyright (C) 2006-07 by Francis Cianfrocca
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  # COPYING in the EventMachine distribution for full licensing
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  # information.
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  #
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- # $Id$
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- #++
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-
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- ### OLD RAKE: ###
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- # # The tasks and external gemspecs we used to generate binary gems are now
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- # # obsolete. Use Patrick Hurley's gembuilder to build binary gems for any
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- # # desired platform.
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- # # To build a binary gem on Win32, ensure that the include and lib paths
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- # # both contain the proper references to OPENSSL. Use the static version
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- # # of the libraries, not the dynamic, otherwise we expose the user to a
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- # # runtime dependency.
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- #
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- # # To build a binary gem for win32, first build rubyeventmachine.so
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- # # using VC6 outside of the build tree (the normal way: ruby extconf.rb,
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- # # and then nmake). Then copy rubyeventmachine.so into the lib directory,
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- # # and run rake gemwin32.
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- #
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  require 'rake' unless defined?(Rake)
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  Dir.glob('tasks/*.rake').each { |r| Rake.application.add_import r }
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- # e.g. rake EVENTMACHINE_LIBRARY=java for forcing java build tasks as defaults!
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- $eventmachine_library = :java if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /java/ || ENV['EVENTMACHINE_LIBRARY'] == 'java'
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- $eventmachine_library = :pure_ruby if ENV['EVENTMACHINE_LIBRARY'] == 'pure_ruby'
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- build_task = 'java:build' if $eventmachine_library == :java
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- build_task = :dummy_build if $eventmachine_library == :pure_ruby
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+ build_task = 'java:build' if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /java/
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- s.name = "eventmachine"
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- s.summary = "Ruby/EventMachine library"
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- s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
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- s.has_rdoc = true
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- s.rdoc_options = %w(--title EventMachine --main README --line-numbers -x lib/em/version -x lib/emva -x lib/evma/ -x lib/pr_eventmachine -x lib/jeventmachine)
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- s.extra_rdoc_files = Dir['README,docs/*']
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- s.files = `git ls-files`.split("\n")
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- s.require_path = 'lib'
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- # TODO / XXX - should we enable this? rubygems fails the install if anything
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- # is broken. What we could do is CI submission, though, and always terminate
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- # with a positive code...
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- # s.test_file = "tests/testem.rb"
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- # XXX Using rake to compile extensions breaks when you have multiple ruby installations
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- # and your path isn't set. We can switch back to this once the Gem.exec patch is merged.
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- # s.extensions = "Rakefile"
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- s.extensions = ["ext/extconf.rb", "ext/fastfilereader/extconf.rb"]
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- s.author = "Francis Cianfrocca"
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- s.email = "garbagecat10@gmail.com"
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- s.rubyforge_project = 'eventmachine'
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- s.homepage = "http://rubyeventmachine.com"
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- # Pulled in from readme, as code to pull from readme was not working!
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- # Might be worth removing as no one seems to use gem info anyway.
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- s.description = <<-EOD
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- EventMachine implements a fast, single-threaded engine for arbitrary network
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- communications. It's extremely easy to use in Ruby. EventMachine wraps all
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- interactions with IP sockets, allowing programs to concentrate on the
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- implementation of network protocols. It can be used to create both network
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- to specify the IP address and port, and provide a Module that implements the
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- communications protocol. Implementations of several standard network protocols
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- are provided with the package, primarily to serve as examples. The real goal
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- EOD
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- EventMachine (EM) adds two different formalisms for lightweight concurrency to the Ruby programmer's toolbox: spawned processes and deferrables. This note will show you how to use deferrables. For more information, see the separate document LIGHTWEIGHT_CONCURRENCY.
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+ EventMachine (EM) adds two different formalisms for lightweight concurrency
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+ to the Ruby programmer's toolbox: spawned processes and deferrables. This
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+ note will show you how to use deferrables. For more information, see the
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+ separate document LIGHTWEIGHT_CONCURRENCY.
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  === What are Deferrables?
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- EventMachine's Deferrable borrows heavily from the "deferred" object in Python's "Twisted" event-handling framework. Here's a minimal example that illustrates Deferrable:
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+ Python's "Twisted" event-handling framework. Here's a minimal example that
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- How might that be useful? Well, imagine that you're implementing an HTTP server, but you need to make a call to some other server in order to fulfill a client request.
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+ when the status of the Deferrable object changes.
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+ How might that be useful? Well, imagine that you're implementing an HTTP
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+ server, but you need to make a call to some other server in order to fulfill
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+ a client request.
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+ When you receive a request from one of your clients, you can create and
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+ return a Deferrable object. Some other section of your program can add a
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+ fulfilled. Simultaneously, you initiate an event-driven or threaded client
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+ callback or errback. This makes it possible to change the parameters which
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+ will be sent to the callbacks or errbacks farther down the chain, enabling
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+ some extremely elegant use-cases. You can transform the data returned from
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+ a deferred operation in arbitrary ways as needed by subsequent users, without
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+ changing any of the code that generated the original data.
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+ But we used #set_deferred_status in the first callback in order to change the
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+ parameters that will be sent to subsequent callbacks in the chain. In this
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+ way, you can construct powerful sequences of layered functionality. If you
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+ want, you can even change the status of the Deferrable from :succeeded to
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+ :failed, which would abort the chain of callback calls, and invoke the chain
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+ Now of course it's somewhat trivial to define two callbacks in the same
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+ method, even with the parameter-changing effect we just described. It would
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+ be much more interesting to pass the Deferrable to some other function (for
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+ example, a function defined in another module or a different gem), that would
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+ in turn add callbacks and/or errbacks of its own. That would illustrate the
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+ true power of the Deferrable pattern: to isolate the HTTP client-request
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+ from other functions that use the data that it returns without caring where
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+ those data came from.
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+ Remember that you can add a callback or an errback to a Deferrable at any
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+ point in time, regardless of whether the status of the deferred operation is
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+ known (more precisely, regardless of when #set_deferred_status is called on
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+ the object). Even hours or days later.
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+ When you add a callback or errback to a Deferrable object on which
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+ #set_deferred_status has not yet been called, the callback/errback is queued
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+ up for future execution, inside the Deferrable object. When you add a
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+ callback or errback to a Deferrable on which #set_deferred_status has
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+ already been called, the callback/errback will be executed immediately.
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+ Your code doesn't have to worry about the ordering, and there are no timing
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+ issues, as there would be with a threaded approach.
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+
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+ For more information on Deferrables and their typical usage patterns, look
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+ in the EM unit tests. There are also quite a few sugarings (including
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+ EM::Deferrable#future) that make typical Deferrable usages syntactically
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+ easier to work with.
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