add Thingy

[spider.git] / perl / Thingy.pm

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+#
+# Thingy handling
+#
+# This is the new fundamental protocol engine handler
+#
+# $Id$
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2004 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
+#
+
+package Thingy;
+
+use vars qw($VERSION $BRANCH);
+$VERSION = sprintf( "%d.%03d", q$Revision$ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/ );
+$BRANCH = sprintf( "%d.%03d", q$Revision$ =~ /\d+\.\d+\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/  || (0,0));
+$main::build += $VERSION;
+$main::branch += $BRANCH;
+
+
+use DXChannel;
+use DXDebug;
+
+our @queue;
+
+# we expect all thingies to be subclassed
+sub new
+{
+       my $class = shift;
+       my $self = {@_};
+       
+       bless $self, $class;
+       return $self;
+}
+
+# add the Thingy to the queue
+sub add
+{
+       push @queue, shift;
+}
+
+# dispatch Thingies to action it.
+sub process
+{
+       my $t = pop @queue if @queue;
+
+       $t->process if $t;
+}
+
+1;
+