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hen --- a beanstalk client

Description

beanstalk is a protocol for interfacing with beanstalkd, a "simple, fast work queue."

hen is a simple client for workers and producers

Author

Joseph Gay

Requirements

lambda+

list-utils

miscmacros

tcp6

Documentation

Examples
Worker:
 
(with-hen (tcp-connect "localhost" 11300)
  (while #t         
    (hen-ignore "default")
    (hen-watch "my-tube")
    (let ([job (hen-reserve)]) ; blocks, optional timeout parameter
      (my-process-job job)
      (hen-delete ((compose cdr assoc) 'id job)))))
Producer:
 
(with-hen (tcp-connect "localhost" 11300)
  (hen-use "my-tube")
  (hen-put "hello worker!"))

Procedures

[procedure] (with-hen TCP-CONNECTION &FORMS)

This wrapper procedure is for added convenience. TCP-CONNECTION should be a multi-value as is returned from tcp-connect in tcp6. with-hen is used as in the examples above. It will automatically call hen-quit and return the value of the last form provided to be evaluated.

The following are supported beanstalk commands:

[procedure] (hen-put [PRI 2^31 [DELAY 0 [TTR 36000]]] data)
[procedure] (hen-reserve [TIMEOUT #f])
[procedure] (hen-use TUBE)
[procedure] (hen-delete ID)
[procedure] (hen-release ID [PRI 2^31 [DELAY 0]])
[procedure] (hen-bury ID [PRI 2^31])
[procedure] (hen-touch ID)
[procedure] (hen-watch TUBE)
[procedure] (hen-ignore TUBE)
[procedure] (hen-peek ID)
[procedure] (hen-peek-ready)
[procedure] (hen-peek-delayed)
[procedure] (hen-peek-buried)
[procedure] (hen-kick bound)
[procedure] (hen-stats-job ID)
[procedure] (hen-stats-tube TUBE)
[procedure] (hen-stats)
[procedure] (hen-list-tubes)
[procedure] (hen-list-tube-used)
[procedure] (hen-list-tubes-watched)
[procedure] (hen-quit)
[procedure] (hen-pause-tube TUBE DELAY)

Most of the commands will return a simple string status. Exceptions are the stats commands, which return an alist, and the reserve command, which returns a pair (job-id . data) if a job is reserved.

All hen commands also accept keyword arguments #:tcp-in and #:tcp-out to override hen-in and hen-out, which are the default ports, initially unspecified.

Notes

Source

Source code is available in the eggs repository as well as on github: https://github.com/joseph-gay/cscm-hen

Version
0.5
Initial release

License

 
 Copyright (C) 2011 by Joseph Gay

 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.

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 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA