Sorry. The syntax is.
$stomp->can_read({'timeout' => 5});
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Roger Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I'm using can_read() in a similar way as you and it works. Perhaps you're
> not waiting long enough?
>
> Try setting a timeout.
>
> #This will wait on the socket for up to 5 seconds
> my $can_read = $stomp->can_read(5);
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Friedrich Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> (Sample code of what we are trying is at the end of the email)
>>
>> I would like to use Net::Stomp to write a Nagios check for ActiveMQ
>> and Net::Stomp looks ideal for this. The idea is like so:
>>
>> * send.pl() - This would push a message onto a monitoring queue.
>> * receive.pl() - This would consume the message from the monitoring
>> queue placed by send.pl
>>
>> If receive.pl does not receive the message sent by send.pl or send.pl
>> cannot connect then an alert is raised. I realise that there may be
>> some added complexity in making sure that receive.pl really reads the
>> correct message but we would like something to get us started.
>>
>> However, we encountered two issues:
>>
>> * Net::Stomp's receive_frame() method continually waits for a new
>> message to arrive on ActiveMQ. What we would like is to check if a
>> specific (or any for that matter) message has arrived and then exit
>> with an exit code determined by whether the aforementioned message had
>> arrived or not.
>>
>> * So, I discovered the can_read() method - this sounded ideal as the
>> documentation implied (to me at least) that if there are messages
>> waiting on the queue can_read() will return a certain value. However,
>> can_read() always returns the same value(0), no matter if there are
>> messages on the queue or not.
>>
>> If anyone can shed some light on this - it would be much appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Fred.
>>
>> *Code follows*
>>
>> my($queue) = @_;
>> my $content;
>>
>> my $stomp = Net::Stomp->new( { hostname => 'localhost', port => '61613'
>> } );
>> $stomp->connect( { 'login' => '', 'passcode' => '' } ) || die
>> "Cannot connect to ActiveMQ Server\n";
>> $stomp->subscribe( { destination => '/queue/monitor', ack => 'client' }
>> );
>>
>> my $can_read = $stomp->can_read;
>> print "Can read is $can_read\n";
>> if ($can_read) {
>> print "I can read a frame\n";
>> } else {
>> print "No frames waiting\n";
>> }
>>
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