NAME¶
AnyEvent::IRC::Client - A highlevel IRC connection
SYNOPSIS¶
use AnyEvent;
use AnyEvent::IRC::Client;
my $c = AnyEvent->condvar;
my $timer;
my $con = new AnyEvent::IRC::Client;
$con->reg_cb (connect => sub {
my ($con, $err) = @_;
if (defined $err) {
warn "connect error: $err\n";
return;
}
});
$con->reg_cb (registered => sub { print "I'm in!\n"; });
$con->reg_cb (disconnect => sub { print "I'm out!\n"; $c->broadcast });
$con->reg_cb (
sent => sub {
my ($con) = @_;
if ($_[2] eq 'PRIVMSG') {
print "Sent message!\n";
$timer = AnyEvent->timer (
after => 1,
cb => sub {
undef $timer;
$con->disconnect ('done')
}
);
}
}
);
$con->send_srv (
PRIVMSG => 'elmex',
"Hello there I'm the cool AnyEvent::IRC test script!"
);
$con->connect ("localhost", 6667, { nick => 'testbot' });
$c->wait;
$con->disconnect;
DESCRIPTION¶
AnyEvent::IRC::Client is a (nearly) highlevel client connection, that manages
all the stuff that noone wants to implement again and again when handling with
IRC. For example it PONGs the server or keeps track of the users on a channel.
This module also implements the ISUPPORT (command 005) extension of the IRC
protocol (see
http://www.irc.org/tech_docs/005.html) and will enable the
NAMESX and UHNAMES extensions when supported by the server.
Also CTCP support is implemented, all CTCP messages will be decoded and events
for them will be generated. You can configure auto-replies to certain CTCP
commands with the "ctcp_auto_reply" method, or you can generate the
replies yourself.
A NOTE TO CASE MANAGEMENT¶
The case insensitivity of channel names and nicknames can lead to headaches when
dealing with IRC in an automated client which tracks channels and nicknames.
I tried to preserve the case in all channel and nicknames AnyEvent::IRC::Client
passes to his user. But in the internal structures I'm using lower case for
the channel names.
The returned hash from "channel_list" for example has the lower case
of the joined channels as keys.
But I tried to preserve the case in all events that are emitted. Please keep
this in mind when handling the events.
For example a user might joins #TeSt and parts #test later.
EVENTS¶
The following events are emitted by AnyEvent::IRC::Client. Use
"reg_cb" as described in Object::Event to register to such an event.
- registered
- Emitted when the connection got successfully registered and the end of the
MOTD (IRC command 376 or 422 (No MOTD file found)) was seen, so you can
start sending commands and all ISUPPORT/PROTOCTL handshaking has been
done.
- channel_add => $msg, $channel, @nicks
- Emitted when @nicks are added to the channel $channel, this happens for
example when someone JOINs a channel or when you get a RPL_NAMREPLY (see
RFC1459).
$msg is the IRC message hash that as returned by
"parse_irc_msg".
- channel_remove => $msg, $channel, @nicks
- Emitted when @nicks are removed from the channel $channel, happens for
example when they PART, QUIT or get KICKed.
$msg is the IRC message hash that as returned by "parse_irc_msg"
or undef if the reason for the removal was a disconnect on our end.
- channel_change => $msg, $channel, $old_nick, $new_nick, $is_myself
- Emitted when a nickname on a channel changes. This is emitted when a NICK
change occurs from $old_nick to $new_nick give the application a chance to
quickly analyze what channels were affected. $is_myself is true when
yourself was the one who changed the nick.
- channel_nickmode_update => $channel, $dest
- This event is emitted when the (user) mode (eg. op status) of an occupant
of a channel changes. $dest is the nickname on the $channel who's mode was
updated.
- channel_topic => $channel, $topic, $who
- This is emitted when the topic for a channel is discovered. $channel is
the channel for which $topic is the current topic now. Which is set by
$who. $who might be undefined when it's not known who set the channel
topic.
- ident_change => $nick, $ident
- Whenever the user and host of $nick has been determined or a change
happened this event is emitted.
- join => $nick, $channel, $is_myself
- Emitted when $nick enters the channel $channel by JOINing. $is_myself is
true if yourself are the one who JOINs.
- part => $nick, $channel, $is_myself, $msg
- Emitted when $nick PARTs the channel $channel. $is_myself is true if
yourself are the one who PARTs. $msg is the PART message.
- kick => $kicked_nick, $channel, $is_myself, $msg, $kicker_nick
- Emitted when $kicked_nick is KICKed from the channel $channel by
$kicker_nick. $is_myself is true if yourself are the one who got KICKed.
$msg is the KICK message.
- nick_change => $old_nick, $new_nick, $is_myself
- Emitted when $old_nick is renamed to $new_nick. $is_myself is true when
yourself was the one who changed the nick.
- away_status_change => $bool
- Emitted whenever a presence/away status change for you was detected. $bool
is true if you are now away, or false/undef if you are not away anymore.
You can change your away status by emitting the "AWAY" IRC
command:
$cl->send_srv (AWAY => "I'm not here right now");
Or reset it:
$cl->send_srv ('AWAY');
- ctcp => $src, $target, $tag, $msg, $type
- Emitted when a CTCP message was found in either a NOTICE or PRIVMSG
message. $tag is the CTCP message tag. (eg. "PING",
"VERSION", ...). $msg is the CTCP message and $type is either
"NOTICE" or "PRIVMSG".
$src is the source nick the message came from. $target is the target
nickname (yours) or the channel the ctcp was sent on.
- "ctcp_$tag", => $src, $target, $msg, $type
- Emitted when a CTCP message was found in either a NOTICE or PRIVMSG
message. $tag is the CTCP message tag (in lower case). (eg.
"ping", "version", ...). $msg is the CTCP message and
$type is either "NOTICE" or "PRIVMSG".
$src is the source nick the message came from. $target is the target
nickname (yours) or the channel the ctcp was sent on.
- dcc_ready => $id, $dest, $type, $local_ip, $local_port
- Whenever a locally initiated DCC request is made this event is emitted
after the listening socket has been setup.
$id is the DCC connection ID.
$dest and $type are the destination and type of the DCC request.
$local_ip is the $local_ip argument passed to "start_dcc" or the
IP the socket is bound to.
$local_port is the TCP port is the socket is listening on.
- dcc_request => $id, $src, $type, $arg, $addr, $port
- Whenever we receive a DCC offer from someone else this event is emitted.
$id is the DCC connection ID, $src is his nickname, $type is the DCC type
in lower cases (eg. 'chat'). $arg is the DCC type argument. $addr is the
IP address we can reach him at in ASCII encoded human readable form (eg.
something like "127.0.0.1"). And $port is the TCP port we have
to connect to.
To answer to his request you can just call "dcc_accept" with the
$id.
- dcc_accepted => $id, $type, $hdl
- When the locally listening DCC socket has received a connection this event
is emitted.
$id and $type are the DCC connection ID and type of the DCC request.
$hdl is a pre-configured AnyEvent::Handle object, which you only need to
care about in case you want to implement your own DCC protocol. (This
event has the on_error and on_eof events pre-configured to cleanup the
data structures in this connection).
- dcc_connected => $id, $type, $hdl
- Whenever we accepted a DCC offer and connected by using
"dcc_accept" this event is emitted. $id is the DCC connection
ID. $type is the dcc type in lower case. $hdl is the AnyEvent::Handle
object of the connection (see also "dcc_accepted" above).
- dcc_close => $id, $type, $reason
- This event is emitted whenever a DCC connection is terminated.
$id and $type are the DCC connection ID and type of the DCC request.
$reason is a human readable string indicating the reason for the end of the
DCC request.
- dcc_chat_msg => $id, $msg
- This event is emitted for a DCC CHAT message. $id is the DCC connection ID
we received the message on. And $msg is the message he sent us.
- quit => $nick, $msg
- Emitted when the nickname $nick QUITs with the message $msg.
- publicmsg => $channel, $ircmsg
- Emitted for NOTICE and PRIVMSG where the target $channel is a channel.
$ircmsg is the original IRC message hash like it is returned by
"parse_irc_msg".
The last parameter of the $ircmsg will have all CTCP messages stripped
off.
- privatemsg => $nick, $ircmsg
- Emitted for NOTICE and PRIVMSG where the target $nick (most of the time
you) is a nick. $ircmsg is the original IRC message hash like it is
returned by "parse_irc_msg".
The last parameter of the $ircmsg will have all CTCP messages stripped
off.
- error => $code, $message, $ircmsg
- Emitted when any error occurs. $code is the 3 digit error id string from
RFC 1459 or the string 'ERROR'. $message is a description of the error.
$ircmsg is the complete error irc message.
You may use AnyEvent::IRC::Util::rfc_code_to_name to convert $code to the
error name from the RFC 2812. eg.:
rfc_code_to_name ('471') => 'ERR_CHANNELISFULL'
NOTE: This event is also emitted when a 'ERROR' message is received.
- debug_send => $command, @params
- Is emitted everytime some command is sent.
- debug_recv => $ircmsg
- Is emitted everytime some command was received.
METHODS¶
- $cl = AnyEvent::IRC::Client->new (%args)
- This is the constructor of a AnyEvent::IRC::Client object, which stands
logically for a client connected to ONE IRC server. You can reuse it and
call "connect" once it disconnected.
NOTE: You are free to use the hash member "heap" to store
any associated data with this object. For example retry timers or anything
else.
%args may contain these options:
- send_initial_whois => $bool
- If this option is enabled an initial "WHOIS" command is sent to
your own NICKNAME to determine your own ident. See also the method
"nick_ident". This is necessary to ensure that the information
about your own nickname is available as early as possible for the
"send_long_message" method.
$bool is "false" by default.
- $cl->connect ($host, $port)
- $cl->connect ($host, $port, $info)
- This method does the same as the "connect" method of
AnyEvent::Connection, but if the $info parameter is passed it will
automatically register with the IRC server upon connect for you, and you
won't have to call the "register" method yourself. If $info only
contains the timeout value it will not automatically connect, this way you
can pass a custom connect timeout value without having to register.
The keys of the hash reference you can pass in $info are:
nick - the nickname you want to register as
user - your username
real - your realname
password - the server password
timeout - the TCP connect timeout
All keys, except "nick" are optional.
- $cl->register ($nick, $user, $real, $server_pass)
- Sends the IRC registration commands NICK and USER. If $server_pass is
passed also a PASS command is generated.
NOTE: If you passed the nick, user, etc. already to the "connect"
method you won't need to call this method, as AnyEvent::IRC::Client will
do that for you.
- $cl->set_nick_change_cb ($callback)
- This method lets you modify the nickname renaming mechanism when
registering the connection. $callback is called with the current nickname
as first argument when a ERR_NICKNAMEINUSE or ERR_UNAVAILRESOURCE error
occurs on login. The return value of $callback will then be used to change
the nickname.
If $callback is not defined the default nick change callback will be used
again.
The default callback appends '_' to the end of the nickname supplied in the
"register" routine.
If the callback returns the same nickname that was given it the connection
will be terminated.
- $cl->nick ()
- Returns the current nickname, under which this connection is registered at
the IRC server. It might be different from the one that was passed to
"register" as a nick-collision might happened on login.
- $cl->is_my_nick ($string)
- This returns true if $string is the nick of ourself.
- $cl->registered ()
- Returns a true value when the connection has been registered successful
and you can send commands.
- $cl->channel_list ()
- $cl->channel_list ($channel)
- Without $channel parameter: This returns a hash reference. The keys are
the currently joined channels in lower case. The values are hash
references which contain the joined nicks as key (NOT in lower case!) and
the nick modes as values (as returned from "nick_modes ()").
If the $channel parameter is given it returns the hash reference of the
channel occupants or undef if the channel does not exist.
- $cl->nick_modes ($channel, $nick)
- This returns the mode map of the $nick on $channel. Returns undef if the
channel isn't joined or the user is not on it. Returns a hash reference
with the modes the user has as keys and 1's as values.
- $cl->send_msg (...)
- See also AnyEvent::IRC::Connection.
- $cl->send_srv ($command, @params)
- This function sends an IRC message that is constructed by "mk_msg
(undef, $command, @params)" (see AnyEvent::IRC::Util). If the
"registered" event has NOT yet been emitted the messages are
queued until that event is emitted, and then sent to the server.
NOTE: If you stop the registered event (with "stop_event",
see Object::Event) in a callback registered to the
"before_registered" event, the "send_srv" queue will
NOT be flushed and NOT sent to the server!
This allows you to simply write this:
my $cl = AnyEvent::IRC::Client->new;
$cl->connect ('irc.freenode.net', 6667, { nick => 'testbot' });
$cl->send_srv (PRIVMSG => 'elmex', 'Hi there!');
Instead of:
my $cl = AnyEvent::IRC::Client->new;
$cl->reg_cb (
registered => sub {
$cl->send_msg (PRIVMSG => 'elmex', 'Hi there!');
}
);
$cl->connect ('irc.freenode.net', 6667, { nick => 'testbot' });
- $cl->clear_srv_queue ()
- Clears the server send queue.
- $cl->send_chan ($channel, $command, @params)
- This function sends a message (constructed by "mk_msg (undef,
$command, @params)" to the server, like "send_srv" only
that it will queue the messages if it hasn't joined the channel $channel
yet. The queued messages will be send once the connection successfully
JOINed the $channel.
$channel will be lowercased so that any case that comes from the server
matches. (Yes, IRC handles upper and lower case as equal :-(
Be careful with this, there are chances you might not join the channel you
wanted to join. You may wanted to join #bla and the server redirects that
and sends you that you joined #blubb. You may use
"clear_chan_queue" to remove the queue after some timeout after
joining, so that you don't end up with a memory leak.
- $cl->clear_chan_queue ($channel)
- Clears the channel queue of the channel $channel.
- my (@lines) = $cl->send_long_message ($encoding, $overhead, $cmd,
@params, $msg)
- As IRC only allows 512 byte blocks of messages and sometimes your messages
might get longer, you have a problem. This method will solve your problem:
This method can be used to split up long messages into multiple commands.
$cmd and @params are the IRC command and it's first parameters, except the
last one: the $msg. $msg can be a Unicode string, which will be encoded in
$encoding before sending.
If you want to send a CTCP message you can encode it in the $cmd by
appending the CTCP command with a "\001". For example if you
want to send a CTCP ACTION you have to give this $cmd:
$cl->send_long_message (undef, 0, "PRIVMSG\001ACTION", "#test", "rofls");
$encoding can be undef if you don't need any recoding of $msg. But in case
you want to send Unicode it is necessary to determine where to split a
message exactly, to not break the encoding.
Please also note that the "nick_ident" for your own nick is
necessary to compute this. To ensure best performance as possible use the
"send_initial_whois" option if you want to use this method.
But note that this method might not work 100% correct and you might still
get at least partially chopped off lines if you use
"send_long_message" before the "WHOIS" reply to
"send_initial_whois" arrived.
To be on the safest side you might want to wait until that initial
"WHOIS" reply arrived.
The return value of this method is the list of the actually sent lines (but
without encoding applied).
- $cl->enable_ping ($interval, $cb)
- This method enables a periodical ping to the server with an interval of
$interval seconds. If no PONG was received from the server until the next
interval the connection will be terminated or the callback in $cb will be
called.
($cb will have the connection object as it's first argument.)
Make sure you call this method after the connection has been established.
(eg. in the callback for the "registered" event).
- $cl->lower_case ($str)
- Converts the given string to lowercase according to CASEMAPPING setting
given by the IRC server. If none was sent, the default - rfc1459 - will be
used.
- $cl->eq_str ($str1, $str2)
- This function compares two strings, whether they are describing the same
IRC entity. They are lower cased by the networks case rules and compared
then.
- $cl->isupport ()
- $cl->isupport ($key)
- Provides access to the ISUPPORT variables sent by the IRC server. If $key
is given this method will return its value only, otherwise a hashref with
all values is returned
- $cl->split_nick_mode ($prefixed_nick)
- This method splits the $prefix_nick (eg. '+elmex') up into the mode of the
user and the nickname.
This method returns 2 values: the mode map and the nickname.
The mode map is a hash reference with the keys being the modes the nick has
set and the values being 1.
NOTE: If you feed in a prefixed ident ('@elmex!elmex@fofofof.de') you get 3
values out actually: the mode map, the nickname and the ident, otherwise
the 3rd value is undef.
- $cl->map_prefix_to_mode ($prefix)
- Maps the nick prefix (eg. '@') to the corresponding mode (eg. 'o').
Returns undef if no such prefix exists (on the connected server).
- $cl->map_mode_to_prefix ($mode)
- Maps the nick mode (eg. 'o') to the corresponding prefix (eg. '@').
Returns undef if no such mode exists (on the connected server).
- $cl->available_nick_modes ()
- Returns a list of possible modes on this IRC server. (eg. 'o' for
op).
- $cl->is_channel_name ($string)
- This return true if $string is a channel name. It analyzes the prefix of
the string (eg. if it is '#') and returns true if it finds a channel
prefix. Those prefixes might be server specific, so ISUPPORT is checked
for that too.
- $cl->nick_ident ($nick)
- This method returns the whole ident of the $nick if the information is
available. If the nick's ident hasn't been seen yet, undef is returned.
NOTE: If you want to rely on the "nick_ident" of your own
nick you should make sure to enable the "send_initial_whois"
option in the constructor.
- my $bool = $cl->away_status
- Returns a true value if you are away or undef if you are not away.
- $cl->ctcp_auto_reply ($ctcp_command, @msg)
- $cl->ctcp_auto_reply ($ctcp_command, $coderef)
- This method installs an auto-reply for the reception of the $ctcp_command
via PRIVMSG, @msg will be used as argument to the "encode_ctcp"
function of the AnyEvent::IRC::Util package. The replies will be sent with
the NOTICE IRC command.
If $coderef was given and is a code reference, it will called each time a
$ctcp_command is received, this is useful for eg. CTCP PING reply
generation. The arguments will be the same arguments that the
"ctcp" event callbacks get. (See also "ctcp" event
description above). The return value of the called subroutine should be a
list of arguments for "encode_ctcp".
Currently you can only configure one auto-reply per $ctcp_command.
Example:
$cl->ctcp_auto_reply ('VERSION', ['VERSION', 'ScriptBla:0.1:Perl']);
$cl->ctcp_auto_reply ('PING', sub {
my ($cl, $src, $target, $tag, $msg, $type) = @_;
['PING', $msg]
});
- $cl->dcc_initiate ($dest, $type, $timeout, $local_ip, $local_port)
- This function will initiate a DCC TCP connection to $dest of type $type.
It will setup a listening TCP socket on $local_port, or a random port if
$local_port is undefined. $local_ip is the IP that is being sent to the
receiver of the DCC connection. If it is undef the local socket will be
bound to 0 (or "::" in case of IPv6) and $local_ip will probably
be something like "0.0.0.0". It is always advisable to set
$local_ip to a (from the "outside", what ever that might be)
reachable IP Address.
$timeout is the time in seconds after which the listening socket will be
closed if the receiver didn't connect yet. The default is 300 (5 minutes).
When the local listening socket has been setup the "dcc_ready"
event is emitted. When the receiver connects to the socket the
"dcc_accepted" event is emitted. And whenever a dcc connection
is closed the "dcc_close" event is emitted.
For canceling the DCC offer or closing the connection see
"dcc_disconnect" below.
The return value of this function will be the ID of the initiated DCC
connection, which can be used for functions such as
"dcc_disconnect", "send_dcc_chat" or
"dcc_handle".
- $cl->dcc_disconnect ($id, $reason)
- In case you want to withdraw a DCC offer sent by "start_dcc" or
close a DCC connection you call this function.
$id is the DCC connection ID. $reason should be a human readable reason why
you ended the dcc offer, but it's only used for local logging purposes
(see "dcc_close" event).
- $cl->dcc_accept ($id, $timeout)
- This will accept an incoming DCC request as received by the
"dcc_request" event. The "dcc_connected" event will be
emitted when we successfully connected. And the "dcc_close"
event when the connection was disconnected.
$timeout is the connection try timeout in seconds. The default is 300 (5
minutes).
EXAMPLES¶
See samples/anyeventirccl and other samples in samples/ for some examples on how
to use AnyEvent::IRC::Client.
AUTHOR¶
Robin Redeker, "<elmex@ta-sa.org>"
SEE ALSO¶
AnyEvent::IRC::Connection
RFC 1459 - Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE¶
Copyright 2006-2009 Robin Redeker, all rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.