Re: Idea for an event loop library

[Jorge <xxopxe@...>]

On mié, 2012-05-09 at 07:22 -0400, Rob Hoelz wrote:
> Basically, I want to create an event library for Lua that sits on top
> of another event library (luaevent for now, but I would probably make
> the system flexible enough for a different library should that be
> desired).

For completeness sake: https://github.com/xopxe/Lumen

It does not depend on a event library, but on a library that provides a
select or poll-like call. At the moment, luasocket and nixio are
supported. It's of the "cooperative, events&blocking, coroutine based,
calculating the timeout for a select" class.

The API looks like this:

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local sched = require "sched"

local emitter_task=sched.run(function() 
	sched.catalog.register('A')
	while true do
		sched.signal('ev', 'data!')
		sched.sleep(5)
	end
end)

sched.run(function() 
	local waitd={emitter=emitter_task, events={'ev'}} 
	while true do
		_, m = sched.wait(waitd)
		print (m)
	end
end)

sched.go()
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Good luck in your quest :)

Jorge