Detecting EOF in a on_read for AnyEvent::Handle

[Rob Hoelz]

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Have you tried $hdl->on_eof?

- -Rob

On Dec 11, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Marios Titas wrote:

> Consider the following scenario: an AnyEvent::Handle object receives
> EOF at a moment when the read queue is empty but an on_read callback
> has been specified. As a result, the on_read callback will then be
> called one last time where it will have a last chance to "consume" all
> data from the read buffer. If it doesn't do that then an error will be
> triggered. My question is, is there a way for this callback to know
> that it has been called because an EOF and not because of new data?
> This is useful when you want to do some parsing of the read buffer
> which depends on whether an EOF has been reached or not. The same
> situation can happen with push_read (the typeless version).
> 
> Right now it is possible to check that by looking at $handle->{_eof}
> but of course this is problematic as it is not documented.
> 
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