NAME

       Gearman::Client - Client for gearman distributed job system

SYNOPSIS

           use Gearman::Client;
           my $client = Gearman::Client->new;
           $client->job_servers(
             '127.0.0.1',
             {
               host      => '10.0.0.1',
               port      => 4730,
               socket_cb => sub {...},
               use_ssl   => 1,
               ca_file   => ...,
               cert_file => ...,
               key_file  => ...,
             }
           );

           # running a single task
           my $result_ref = $client->do_task("add", "1+2", {
             on_fail => sub {...},
             on_complete => sub {...}
           });
           print "1 + 2 = $$result_ref\n";

           # waiting on a set of tasks in parallel
           my $taskset = $client->new_task_set;
           $taskset->add_task( "add" => "1+2", {
              on_complete => sub { ... }
           });
           $taskset->add_task( "divide" => "5/0", {
              on_fail => sub { print "divide by zero error!\n"; },
           });
           $taskset->wait;

DESCRIPTION

       Gearman::Client is a client class for the Gearman distributed job system, providing a
       framework for sending jobs to one or more Gearman servers. These jobs are then distributed
       out to a farm of workers.

       Callers instantiate a Gearman::Client object and from it dispatch single tasks, sets of
       tasks, or check on the status of tasks.

       Gearman::Client is derived from Gearman::Objects

USAGE

   Gearman::Client->new(%options)
       Creates a new Gearman::Client object, and returns the object.

       If %options is provided, initializes the new client object with the settings in %options,
       which can contain:

       •   exceptions

           If true, the client sends an OPTION_REQ exceptions <http://gearman.org/protocol/>
           request for each connection to the job server.  This causes job server to forward
           WORK_EXCEPTION packets to the client.

       •   job_servers

           List of job servers. Value should be an array reference, hash reference or scalar.

           Calls Gearman::Objects to set job_servers

       •   prefix

           Calls prefix (see Gearman::Objects) to set the prefix / namespace.

EXAMPLES

   Summation
       This is an example client that sends off a request to sum up a list of integers.

           use Gearman::Client;
           use Storable qw( freeze );
           my $client = Gearman::Client->new;
           $client->job_servers('127.0.0.1');
           my $tasks = $client->new_task_set;
           my $handle = $tasks->add_task(sum => freeze([ 3, 5 ]), {
               on_complete => sub { print ${ $_[0] }, "\n" }
           });
           $tasks->wait;

       See the Gearman::Worker documentation for the worker for the sum function.

NOTE

       If you intend using UTF-8 data with SSL based connection, beware there is no UTF-8 support
       in underlying Net::SSLeay.  "Forcing-Unicode-in-Perl-(Or-Unforcing-Unicode-in-Perl)" in
       perlunicode describes proper workarounds.

METHODS

   new_task_set()
       Creates and returns a new Gearman::Taskset object.

   get_job_server_status()
       return "{job_server => {job => {capable, queued, running}}}"

   get_job_server_jobs()
       supported only by Gearman::Server

       return "{job-server => {job => {address, listeners, key}}}"

   get_job_server_clients()
       supported only by Gearman::Server

   do_task($task)
   do_task($funcname, $arg, \%options)
       Dispatches a task and waits on the results.  May either provide a Gearman::Task object, or
       the 3 arguments that the Gearman::Task constructor takes.

       return scalarref of WORK_COMPLETE result, or undef on failure.

   dispatch_background($func, $arg_p, $options_hr)
   dispatch_background($task)
       Dispatches a "task" and doesn't wait for the result. Return value is an opaque scalar that
       can be used to refer to the task with get_status.

       It is strongly recommended to set Gearman::Task "uniq" option to insure gearmand does not
       squash jobs if it store background jobs in a persistence backend.  See the issue #87
       <https://github.com/gearman/gearmand/issues/87#issuecomment-291119785>

       return the handle from the jobserver, or undef on failure

   run_hook($name)
       run a hook callback if defined

   add_hook($name, $cb)
       add a hook

   get_status($handle)
       The Gearman Server will assign a scalar job handle when you request a background job with
       dispatch_background. Save this scalar, and use it later in order to request the status of
       this job.

       return Gearman::JobStatus on success

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2006-2007 Six Apart, Ltd.

       License granted to use/distribute under the same terms as Perl itself.

WARRANTY

       This is free software. This comes with no warranty whatsoever.

AUTHORS

        Brad Fitzpatrick (<brad at danga dot com>)
        Jonathan Steinert (<hachi at cpan dot org>)
        Alexei Pastuchov (<palik at cpan dot org>) co-maintainer

REPOSITORY

       <https://github.com/p-alik/perl-Gearman.git>