eventq Class Reference

A class for sending event-data to a thread. More...

#include <eventq.h>

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Public Member Functions
	eventq (void)
int	count (void)
void	send (const value &v)
void	send (const statstring &tp, const value &dt)
void	send (const statstring &tp)
void	send (const char *tp)
value *	nextevent (void)
value *	waitevent (int timeout_msec)
value *	waitevent (void)
Protected Attributes
lock< value >	ipc
conditional	event

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Detailed Description

A class for sending event-data to a thread.

It implements a fifo-queue of value objects. The receiving thread can either poll or sleep on incoming events.

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Member Function Documentation

value * eventq::nextevent

(

void

)

Get the next event, if there is any.

Will return an empty value-object if no events are waiting.

References ipc.

Referenced by thread::nextevent().

void eventq::send

(

const char *

tp

)

[inline]

Send an empty event with only a type.

Will be received as a boolean 'true' and the tprovided type().

Parameters:

tp

The type() of the event.

References send().

Referenced by send().

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void eventq::send

(

const statstring &

tp

)

Send an empty event with only a type.

Will be received as a boolean 'true' and the tprovided type().

Parameters:

tp

The type() of the event.

References ipc.

void eventq::send	(	const statstring &	tp,
		const value &	dt
	)

Send an event with a specified type.

Parameters:

	tp	The type() of the event.
	dt	The event-data.

References ipc.

void eventq::send

(

const value &

v

)

Send an event.

Will be received with a type() of "event".

Parameters:

v

The event-data.

References ipc.

Referenced by thread::sendevent(), and daemon::sendevent().

value * eventq::waitevent

(

int

timeout_msec

)

Wait for a new event with a timeout.

Will return an empty value-object if the timeout was reached.

Parameters:

timeout_msec

The timeout in milliseconds.

References event, ipc, conditional::wait(), and waitevent().

Referenced by thread::waitevent(), and daemon::waitevent().

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• eventq.h
• eventq.cpp