Contize version 0.2 ==================== Fake Continuations for a Perl Object. Sort of. Contize is primarily meant to be useful in the context of CGI programming. It effectively alters the programmer's view of what is happening -- changing it from a program which is run and re-run with each input/output into a program which is continuously run, sending output and then pausing for input at certain intervals. Documentation on using Contize for this style of CGI programming can be found elsewhere for now. Contize helps an object to be suspendable and resumeable. For this to happen the object must be Contized, which is a lot like being blessed or Memoized. Once an object has been Contized several new methods are provided to it. The two most important methods are suspend and resume. The suspend method logically replaces the normal return statement. So instead of a method returning its results directly it instead does "$self->suspend(@results)". The suspend method contains an 'exit', so upon suspend the entire process is terminated. In order to succesfully be resumed at a later point, the owner of this object should have an END block which saves the Contized object to long-term storage. The resume method is called by the program after it has restored the Contized object from long-term storage. This restores the objects internal state so that subsequent calls to its methods will (more or less) pick up right where they left off. So, if you have a CGI::Session object for example, you might have something like this: my $obj = $session->param('obj') || new Contize(new MyObj); $obj->resume(); $obj->run(); Fun, eh? Also see http://thelackthereof.org/wiki.pl/Contize INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires doesn't have any extra dependencies, I think. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2004 by Brock Wilcox This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.