
Alvis::Tana - Perl extension for the internals of communicating over the Tana protocol

use Alvis::Tana;
# for a write over Tana
$ok = Alvis::Tana::write($conn, $qe->{'msg'}, $qe->{'arb_name'})
# for checking error messages
my $err=Alvis::Tana::error($conn);
# for reading
my $arb_type = 0;
my $msg = Alvis::Tana::read($conn, \$arb_type);

Provides a set of low-level methods for sending and receiving Tana messages.

Creates a new instance.
Returns the current error message.
Starts listening to 'port'.
Are we connected to 'host':'port'?
Cut all connections.
Cut the connection to 'host':'port'.
Stop listening to 'port';
Connect to 'host':'port'.
Put message 'msg' into the queue for 'host':'port'. 'parameters' is a hash with the following parameters to set:
'tag' => client name for the message 'arb' => scalar data or func(tag) that returs scalar or undef on end-of-data 'arb_name' => scalar
Process the request with the given timeout in seconds.


Antti Tuominen, <antti.tuominen@hiit.fi> Kimmo Valtonen, <kimmo.valtonen@hiit.fi>

Copyright (C) 2006 by Antti Tuominen, Kimmo Valtonen
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.