Modules: IOService

What is it ?

This module is the main event loop system. Other module relly on this module to allow event programming.

API

class IOService {
      IOService(); //Create a new IOService. Becarefull not to create multiple IOService object.
      static IOService& instance(); //Retrun the previously created IOService object.
      void addTimer(const unsigned long& time, Callback cb, void* data); //Add a timer to the event loop. The function cb will be called after time milliseconds with data as parameter.
      void exec(); //This start the event loop. This function will never return.
}

Exemple

#include "aio/IOService.h"
#include "aio/IOStream.h"

using namespace aio;

void onTimeout(void* data) {
     cout << "A timeout occur" << endl;
}


IOService service;
service.addTimer(1000, &onTimeout, NULL);

service.run();

Warning

• You MUST NOT create multiple instance of IOService.
• You MUST create an instance before calling IOService::instance()
• You can only add 30 timers at the same time.