NAME

       POE::Component::IKC::Specifier - IKC event specifer

SYNOPSIS

           use POE;
           use POE::Component::IKC::Specifier;
           $state=specifier_parse('poe://*/timeserver/connect');
           print 'The foreign state is '.specifier_name($state);

DESCRIPTION

       This is a helper module that encapsulates POE IKC specifiers.  An IKC specifier is a way
       of designating either a kernel, a session or a state within a IKC cluster.

       IKC specifiers have the folloing format :

           poe:://kernel/session/state

       kernel may a kernel name, a kernel ID, blank (for local kernel), a '*' (all known foreign
       kernels) or host:port (not currently supported).

       session may be any session alias that has been published by the foreign kernel.

       state is a state that has been published by a foreign session.

       Examples :

       "poe://Pulse/timeserver/connect"
           State 'connect' in session 'timeserver' on kernel 'Pulse'.

       "poe:/timeserver/connect"
           State 'connect' in session 'timeserver' on the local kernel.

       "poe://*/timeserver/connect"
           State 'connect' in session 'timeserver' on any known foreign kernel.

       "poe://Billy/bob/"
           Session 'bob' on foreign kernel 'Billy'.

EXPORTED FUNCTIONS

   "specifier_parse($spec)"
       Turn a specifier into the internal representation (hash ref).  Returns undef() if the
       specifier wasn't valid.

           print Dumper specifer_parse('poe://Pulse/timeserver/time');

       would print

           $VAR1 = {
               kernel => 'Pulse',
               session => 'timeserver',
               state => 'time',
           };

       Note : the internal representation might very well change some day.

   "specifier_name($spec)"
       Turns a specifier into a string.

BUGS

AUTHOR

       Philip Gwyn, <perl-ikc at pied.nu>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 1999-2011 by Philip Gwyn.  All rights reserved.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.

       See <http://www.perl.com/language/misc/Artistic.html>

SEE ALSO

       POE, POE::Component::IKC::Responder