1 = LWES - Light Weight Event System API for Ruby
4 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/lwes
8 The LWES Light-Weight Event System is a framework for allowing the exchange of
9 information from many machines to many machines in a controlled, platform
10 neutral, language neutral way. The exchange of information is done in a
11 connectless fashion using multicast or unicast UDP, and using self describing
12 data so that any platform or language can translate it to it's local dialect.
14 Instead of blindly using SWIG-generated bindings and exposing users to the
15 underlying C APIs, we've wrapped the underlying C library bindings in an
16 easy-to-use Ruby library. Currently we only support emitting events but
17 may support listening and journaling capabilities as time allows.
21 * easy-to-use, "Ruby-ish" API, no manual memory management
22 * optional ESF (event specification format) validation support
26 See the SourceForge project.
30 This library is easy to install, if you have the LWES library already
31 installed you can use that, otherwise the RubyGems installer will
32 automatically download and install a private copy only for use with your
41 # create an Emitter which may be used for the lifetime of your process
42 emitter = LWES::Emitter.new(:address => '224.1.1.11',
44 :heartbeat => 30, # nil to disable
45 :ttl => 1) # nil for no ttl
47 # parse your ESF file at startup, the example below assumes you
48 # have "Event1" and "Event2" defined in your ESF file:
49 type_db = LWES::TypeDB.new("my_events.esf")
51 # create classes to use, by default and to encourage DRY-ness,
52 # we map each event in the ESF file to a class
53 # Optionally, you may specify :parent => module/namespace
54 type_db.create_classes! :parent => MyApp
56 # inside your application, you may now do this to slowly build up
57 # fields for the event
58 my_event = MyApp::Event1.new
59 my_event.started = Time.now.to_i
60 my_event.remote_addr = "192.168.0.1"
61 # ...do a lot of stuff here in between...
62 my_event.field1 = value1
63 my_event.field2 = value2
64 my_event.field3 = value3
65 my_event.finished = Time.now.to_i
68 # Alternatively, if you know ahead of time all the fields you want to
69 # set for an event, you can emit an event in one step:
71 emitter.emit MyApp::Event2, :field1 => value1, :field2 => value2 # ...
76 For prototyping and development, it may be easier to not use an ESF
77 file. In those cases, you may skip the TypeDB steps entirely and
78 just use an emitter to send Hash objects:
80 emitter = LWES::Emitter.new(:address => '224.1.1.11',
82 :heartbeat => 30, # nil to disable
83 :ttl => 1) # nil for no ttl
85 # Since we can't reliably map certain Ruby types to LWES types, you'll
86 # have to specify them explicitly for IP addresses and all Integer
89 :time_sec => [ :int32, Time.now.to_i ],
90 :time_usec => [ :int32, Time.now.tv_usec ],
91 :remote_addr => [ :ip_addr, "192.168.0.1" ],
94 # Strings and Boolean values are easily mapped, however:
95 event[:field1] = "String value"
96 event[:boolean1] = true
97 event[:boolean2] = false
99 # finally, we just emit the hash with any given name
100 emitter.emit "Event3", event