Unless I'm misunderstanding there really isn't a huge differentiation between your choices here except in "how much work I expect to write myself".
I'd start with option 1 since that involves the least amount of work for you personally, and is nearly a proper subset of the others. Then if you run into problems you can escalate to a more complicated solution. -Chris On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Celso Barriga <cbarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > I just discovered POE while researching on a project I'm about to embark on > at work. So I'm new with POE, but a long time Perl programmer. I've read > through most of the documentation and tutorial, and now I'm trying to > decide what approach to take. > In a nutshell, here's what my program is supposed to do: > 0. Log in to an IRC server, at a specified channel. > 1. Get some data from our web service that has REST interface. But we > already have a Perl module that wraps the REST calls so I don't have to > make the REST calls directly. This perl module is using LWP. > 2. For each of the data returned from #1, post it to an IRC channel. > 3. Wait for some predetermined time (say 60 secs?) and go back to #1. > The data is retrieved through some filter, so there's not going to be a lot > of data that will come back. > The program has to be "mission critical" as much as possible, that is, it > has to rejoin the channel if kicked out, or reconnect to the server if > disconnected. > Here are some of my ideas how I'm going to do it, in order of preference: > 1. Use POE::Component::IRC to create a bot, and create a recurring alarm > handler in the tick event. During the tick event is when I retrieve data > from our web app, and send the messages to the channel. I'm going to use > the recurring alarm cookbook example in case this will take a while. > 2. Create two separate sessions similar to the "Combined Services" cookbook > example. > 3. Create it from a base POE and create the POE::Sessions myself (instead > of using the POE::Component::IRC) to handle all the IRC events and second > POE::Sessions to handle the web app query. > By going with #1 it will save me a lot of time in handling the IRC events, > reconnection, etc. But being a noob with POE, I'm wondering if there's some > potential problem I'd run into. > Or is there a better way aside from what I'm thinking? > Thanks in advance. > Celso
