Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::POE(3p)

NAME
Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::POE - Single-threaded multi-tasking Catalyst engine (deprecated in favor of HTTP::Prefork)

SYNOPIS
    CATALYST_ENGINE='HTTP::POE' script/yourapp_server.pl

    # Prefork 5 children
    CATALYST_POE_MAX_PROC=6 CATALYST_ENGINE='HTTP::POE' script/yourapp_server.pl

DEPRECATED
This engine has been deprecated. Please consider using Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Prefork instead.

DESCRIPTION
This engine allows Catalyst to process multiple requests in parallel within a single process. Much of the internal Catalyst flow now uses POE yield calls. Application code will still block of course, but all I/O, header processing, and POST body processing is handled asynchronously.

A good example of the engine's power is the Catalyst::Plugin::UploadProgress demo application, which can process a file upload as well as an Ajax polling request at the same time in the same process.

This engine requires at least Catalyst 5.67.

RESTART SUPPORT
As of version 0.05, the -r flag is supported and the server will restart itself when any application files are modified.

PREFORKING
As of version 0.05, the engine is able to prefork a set number of child processes to distribute requests. Set the CATALYST_POE_MAX_PROC environment variable to the total number of processes you would like to run, including the parent process. So, to prefork 5 children, set this value to 6. This value may also be set by modifying yourapp_server.pl and adding max_proc to the options hash passed to YourApp->run().

DEBUGGING
To enable trace-level debugging, set the environment variable CATALYST_POE_DEBUG.

At any time you can get a dump of the internal state of the engine by sending a USR1 signal to the running process.

EXPERIMENTAL STATUS
This engine should still be considered experimental and likely has bugs, however as it's only intended for development, please use it and report bugs.

The engine has been tested with the UploadProgress demo, the Streaming example, and one of my own moderately large applications. It also fully passes the Catalyst test suite.

AUTHOR
Andy Grundman, <andy@hybridized.org>

COPYRIGHT
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.