NAME¶
Net::IRC::Event - A class for passing event data between subroutines
SYNOPSIS¶
None yet. These docs are under construction.
DESCRIPTION¶
This documentation is a subset of the main Net::IRC documentation. If you
haven't already, please "perldoc Net::IRC" before continuing.
Net::IRC::Event defines a standard interface to the salient information for just
about any event your client may witness on IRC. It's about as close as we can
get in Perl to a struct, with a few extra nifty features thrown in.
METHOD DESCRIPTIONS¶
This section is under construction, but hopefully will be finally written up by
the next release. Please see the "irctest" script and the source for
details about this module.
LIST OF EVENTS¶
Net::IRC is an entirely event-based system, which takes some getting used to at
first. To interact with the IRC server, you tell Net::IRC's server connection
to listen for certain events and activate your own subroutines when they
occur. Problem is, this doesn't help you much if you don't know what to tell
it to look for. Below is a list of the possible events you can pass to
Net::IRC, along with brief descriptions of each... hope this helps.
Common events¶
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- nick
The "nick" event is triggered when the client receives a NICK
message, meaning that someone on a channel with the client has changed eir
nickname.
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- quit
The "quit" event is triggered upon receipt of a QUIT message,
which means that someone on a channel with the client has
disconnected.
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- join
The "join" event is triggered upon receipt of a JOIN message,
which means that someone has entered a channel that the client is on.
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- part
The "part" event is triggered upon receipt of a PART message,
which means that someone has left a channel that the client is on.
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- mode
The "mode" event is triggered upon receipt of a MODE message,
which means that someone on a channel with the client has changed the
channel's parameters.
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- topic
The "topic" event is triggered upon receipt of a TOPIC message,
which means that someone on a channel with the client has changed the
channel's topic.
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- kick
The "kick" event is triggered upon receipt of a KICK message,
which means that someone on a channel with the client (or possibly the
client itself!) has been forcibly ejected.
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- public
The "public" event is triggered upon receipt of a PRIVMSG message
to an entire channel, which means that someone on a channel with the
client has said something aloud.
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- msg
The "msg" event is triggered upon receipt of a PRIVMSG message
which is addressed to one or more clients, which means that someone is
sending the client a private message. (Duh. :-)
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- notice
The "notice" event is triggered upon receipt of a NOTICE message,
which means that someone has sent the client a public or private notice.
(Is that sufficiently vague?)
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- ping
The "ping" event is triggered upon receipt of a PING message,
which means that the IRC server is querying the client to see if it's
alive. Don't confuse this with CTCP PINGs, explained later.
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- other
The "other" event is triggered upon receipt of any number of
unclassifiable miscellaneous messages, but you're not likely to see it
often.
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- invite
The "invite" event is triggered upon receipt of an INVITE message,
which means that someone is permitting the client's entry into a +i
channel.
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- kill
The "kill" event is triggered upon receipt of a KILL message,
which means that an IRC operator has just booted your sorry arse offline.
Seeya!
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- disconnect
The "disconnect" event is triggered when the client loses its
connection to the IRC server it's talking to. Don't confuse it with the
"leaving" event. (See below.)
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- leaving
The "leaving" event is triggered just before the client
deliberately closes a connection to an IRC server, in case you want to do
anything special before you sign off.
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- umode
The "umode" event is triggered when the client changes its
personal mode flags.
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- error
The "error" event is triggered when the IRC server complains to
you about anything. Sort of the evil twin to the "other" event,
actually.
CTCP Requests¶
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- cping
The "cping" event is triggered when the client receives a CTCP
PING request from another user. See the irctest script for an example of
how to properly respond to this common request.
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- cversion
The "cversion" event is triggered when the client receives a CTCP
VERSION request from another client, asking for version info about its IRC
client program.
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- csource
The "csource" event is triggered when the client receives a CTCP
SOURCE request from another client, asking where it can find the source to
its IRC client program.
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- ctime
The "ctime" event is triggered when the client receives a CTCP
TIME request from another client, asking for the local time at its
end.
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- cdcc
The "cdcc" event is triggered when the client receives a DCC
request of any sort from another client, attempting to establish a DCC
connection.
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- cuserinfo
The "cuserinfo" event is triggered when the client receives a CTCP
USERINFO request from another client, asking for personal information from
the client's user.
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- cclientinfo
The "cclientinfo" event is triggered when the client receives a
CTCP CLIENTINFO request from another client, asking for whatever the hell
"clientinfo" means.
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- cerrmsg
The "cerrmsg" event is triggered when the client receives a CTCP
ERRMSG request from another client, notifying it of a protocol error in a
preceding CTCP communication.
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- cfinger
The "cfinger" event is triggered when the client receives a CTCP
FINGER request from another client. How to respond to this should best be
left up to your own moral stance.
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- caction
The "caction" event is triggered when the client receives a CTCP
ACTION message from another client. I should hope you're getting the hang
of how Net::IRC handles CTCP requests by now...
CTCP Responses¶
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- crping
The "crping" event is triggered when the client receives a CTCP
PING response from another user. See the irctest script for an example of
how to properly respond to this common event.
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- crversion
The "crversion" event is triggered when the client receives a CTCP
VERSION response from another client.
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- crsource
The "crsource" event is triggered when the client receives a CTCP
SOURCE response from another client.
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- crtime
The "crtime" event is triggered when the client receives a CTCP
TIME response from another client.
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- cruserinfo
The "cruserinfo" event is triggered when the client receives a
CTCP USERINFO response from another client.
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- crclientinfo
The "crclientinfo" event is triggered when the client receives a
CTCP CLIENTINFO response from another client.
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- crfinger
The "crfinger" event is triggered when the client receives a CTCP
FINGER response from another client. I'm not even going to consider making
a joke about this one.
DCC Events¶
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- dcc_open
The "dcc_open" event is triggered when a DCC connection is
established between the client and another client.
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- dcc_update
The "dcc_update" event is triggered when any data flows over a DCC
connection. Useful for doing things like monitoring file transfer
progress, for instance.
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- dcc_close
The "dcc_close" event is triggered when a DCC connection closes,
whether from an error or from natural causes.
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- chat
The "chat" event is triggered when the person on the other end of
a DCC CHAT connection sends you a message. Think of it as the private
equivalent of "msg", if you will.
Numeric Events¶
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- There's a whole lot of them, and they're well-described elsewhere. Please
see the IRC RFC (1495, at http://cs-ftp.bu.edu/pub/irc/support/IRC_RFC )
for a detailed description, or the Net::IRC::Event.pm source code for a
quick list.
AUTHORS¶
Conceived and initially developed by Greg Bacon <gbacon@adtran.com> and
Dennis Taylor <dennis@funkplanet.com>.
Ideas and large amounts of code donated by Nat "King" Torkington
<gnat@frii.com>.
Currently being hacked on, hacked up, and worked over by the members of the
Net::IRC developers mailing list. For details, see
http://www.execpc.com/~corbeau/irc/list.html .
URL¶
Up-to-date source and information about the Net::IRC project can be found at
http://netirc.betterbox.net/ .
SEE ALSO¶
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- perl(1).
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- RFC 1459: The Internet Relay Chat Protocol
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- http://www.irchelp.org/, home of fine IRC resources.