NAME

Log::UDP::Client - A simple way to send structured log messages via UDP

VERSION

version 0.20.0

SYNOPSIS

use Log::UDP::Client;

        # Send the simple scalar to the server
        Log::UDP::Client->new->send("Hi");

        # Log lots of messages
        my $logger = Log::UDP::Client->new(server_port => 15000);
        my $counter=0;
        while(++$counter) {
            $logger->send($counter);
            last if $counter >= 1000;
        }

        # Send some debugging info
        $logger->send({
            pid     => $$,
            program => $0,
            args    => \@ARGV,
        });

        # Use of JSON serializer
        my $logger = Log::UDP::Client->new( serializer_module => 'JSON' );

        # Will emit { "message" => "Hi" } because JSON want to wrap stuff into a hashref
        $logger->send("Hi");

        # Use of custom serializer
        use Storable qw(freeze);
        my $logger = Log::UDP::Client->new (
            serializer => sub {
                return nfreeze( \( $_[0] ) );
            },
        );

DESCRIPTION

This module enables you to send a message (simple string or complicated object) over an UDP socket to a listening server. The message will be encoded with a serializer module (default is Storable).

ATTRIBUTES
server_address : Str
IP address or hostname for the server you want to send the messages to. This field can be changed after instantiation. Default is 127.0.0.1.

server_port : Int
Port for the server you plan to send the messages to. This field can be changed after instantiation. Default is port 9999.

throws_exception : Bool
If errors are encountered, should we throw exception or just return? Default is return. Set to true for exceptions. You can change this flag after instantiation.

socket : IO::Socket::INET
Read-only field that contains the socket used to send the messages.

METHODS
send($message)
Instance method that actually encodes and transmits the specified message over UDP to the listening server. Will die if throw_exception is set to true and some kind of transmission error occurs. The message will be serialized by the instance-defined serializer. Returns true on success.

INHERITED METHODS

• deserialize
• deserializer
• serialize
• serializer
• serializer_module

All of these methods are inherited from Data::Serializable. Read more about them there.

SEE ALSO

• Moose
• Storable
• JSON::XS
• IO::Socket::INET

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Log::UDP::Client

Websites

• Search CPAN

  <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Log-UDP-Client>

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  <http://annocpan.org/dist/Log-UDP-Client>

• CPAN Ratings

  <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Log-UDP-Client>

• CPAN Forum

  <http://cpanforum.com/dist/Log-UDP-Client>

• RT: CPAN's Bug Tracker

  <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Log-UDP-Client>

• CPANTS Kwalitee

  <http://cpants.perl.org/dist/overview/Log-UDP-Client>

• CPAN Testers Results

  <http://cpantesters.org/distro/L/Log-UDP-Client.html>

• CPAN Testers Matrix

  <http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Log-UDP-Client>

• Source Code Repository

  The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your repository :)

  <git://github.com/robinsmidsrod/Log-UDP-Client.git>

Bugs
Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-log-udp-client at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Log-UDP-Client>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

AUTHOR

Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Robin Smidsrød.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.