POE::Filter::IRCD(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    POE::Filter::IRCD(3pm)

NAME

       POE::Filter::IRCD - A POE-based parser for the IRC protocol.

SYNOPSIS

	   use POE::Filter::IRCD;

	   my $filter = POE::Filter::IRCD->new( debug => 1, colonify => 0 );
	   my $arrayref = $filter->get( [ $hashref ] );
	   my $arrayref2 = $filter->put( $arrayref );

	   use POE qw(Filter::Stackable Filter::Line Filter::IRCD);

	   my ($filter) = POE::Filter::Stackable->new();
	   $filter->push( POE::Filter::Line->new( InputRegexp => '15?12', OutputLiteral => "1512" ),
			  POE::Filter::IRCD->new(), );

DESCRIPTION

       POE::Filter::IRCD provides a convenient way of parsing and creating IRC protocol lines. It provides the parsing engine for
       POE::Component::Server::IRC and POE::Component::IRC.  A standalone version exists as Parse::IRC.

CONSTRUCTOR

       "new"
	   Creates a new POE::Filter::IRCD object. Takes two optional arguments:

	     'debug', which will print all lines received to STDERR;
	     'colonify', set to 1 to force the filter to always colonify the last param passed in a put(),
			 default is 0. See below for more detail.

METHODS

       "get_one_start"
       "get_one"
       "get_pending"
       "get"
	   Takes an arrayref which is contains lines of IRC formatted input. Returns an arrayref of hashrefs which represents the lines. The
	   hashref contains the following fields:

	     prefix
	     command
	     params ( this is an arrayref )
	     raw_line

	   For example, if the filter receives the following line, the following hashref is produced:

	     LINE: ':moo.server.net 001 lamebot :Welcome to the IRC network lamebot'

	     HASHREF: {
			   prefix   => ':moo.server.net',
			   command  => '001',
			   params   => [ 'lamebot', 'Welcome to the IRC network lamebot' ],
			   raw_line => ':moo.server.net 001 lamebot :Welcome to the IRC network lamebot',
		      }

       "put"
	   Takes an arrayref containing hashrefs of IRC data and returns an arrayref containing IRC formatted lines.  Optionally, one can specify
	   'colonify' to override the global colonification option.  eg.

	     $hashref = {
			   command => 'PRIVMSG',
			   prefix => 'FooBar!foobar@foobar.com',
			   params => [ '#foobar', 'boo!' ],
			   colonify => 1, # Override the global colonify option for this record only.
			 };

	     $filter->put( [ $hashref ] );

       "clone"
	   Makes a copy of the filter, and clears the copy's buffer.

       "debug"
	   With a true or false argument, enables or disables debug output respectively. Without an argument the behaviour is to toggle the debug
	   status.

MAINTAINER

       Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>

AUTHOR

       Jonathan Steinert

LICENSE

       Copyright X Chris Williams and Jonathan Steinert

       This module may be used, modified, and distributed under the same terms as Perl itself. Please see the license that came with your Perl
       distribution for details.

SEE ALSO

       POE

       POE::Filter

       POE::Filter::Stackable

       POE::Component::Server::IRC

       POE::Component::IRC

       Parse::IRC

perl v5.10.1							    2009-12-11						    POE::Filter::IRCD(3pm)