This module lets you create Gearman clients with Node.js.

Only a subset of the features of Gearman are currently implemented.

$ npm install gearman

Creating a client goes something like this:

var gearman = require("gearman"),
    client = gearman.createClient(4730, "my-gearman-server.example.com");

console.log("Sending job...");
var job = client.submitJob("reverse", "Hello World!", { encoding: "utf8" });
job.on("complete", function (data) {
    console.log(data);
    client.end();
});

This creates a client with a job and a listener for the result.

You can run this on the command line like so:

$ node reverse-client.js
Sending job...
!dlroW olleH

Additional Gearman tutorials and help can be found at Gearman HQ help.

The gearman module contains methods for creating clients. You can include this module with require('gearman').

Creates a new Gearman client. Takes port and host arguments which default to localhost:4730.

This is an object with methods to create and manage jobs.

Creates and sets up a client's connection (an instance of net.Socket) if it has not yet been created and returns it.

Closes the client connections for when you don't need to use the client any more.

Submits a job to a manager and returns a gearman.Job. data defaults to a Buffer, but can be a String if the encoding option is set to 'ascii', 'utf8', or 'base64'.

options is an object with the following defaults:

{ background: false,
  priority: 'normal',
  encoding: null
}

priority can be one of 'low', 'normal', or 'high'.

If background is set to true, the job is detached after the create event and no further events are emitted.

Works the same as job.getStatus but takes a job handle (assigned previously by the server for a job submitted with background: true) and executes a callback taking an object with status information.

An object representing a job that has been submitted. gearman.Job instances are EventEmitters with the these events:

function (handle) {}

Emitted when a job is created. handle is the new job's handle, which is also assigned to the handle property of the gearman.Job instance.

function (data) {}

Emitted when data for the job is received. data is the data sent, as a Buffer or as a String if encoding was set before the job was submitted.

function (warning) {}

Same as a data event, but should be treated as a warning.

function (data) {}

Emitted when a job completes. data is the data sent, as a Buffer or as a String if encoding was set before the job was submitted.

function () {}

Emitted when a job fails.

For a job that was submitted in the background (with background: true), get information about its status. callback will be called when the server returns the status, with an object showing status information:

job.getStatus(function (status) { console.dir(status); });

The status object returned can contain the following:

{ handle: String,                   // the job's handle
  known: Boolean,                   // is the job known?
  running: Boolean,                 // is the job running?
  percentComplete: [Number, Number] // Numerator & denominator of percentage complete
}

To run the tests:

Set up nodeunit:

$ npm link

Some of the tests require a live Gearman server running on localhost:4730 (no mock server here, we keep it real.) Download, install, and run gearmand. You can do brew install gearman on a Mac with HomeBrew.

A worker used by some of the tests is in the test/fixtures directory. You'll need the gearman gem installed and you can run it with:

$ ruby test/fixtures/worker.rb &

Run the tests:

$ nodeunit test

Should be compatible with node 0.4.x.

Should work with Gearman 0.20 and Gearman HQ.

Thanks to the Gearman community and rest of the Gearman HQ team for help and documentation. This module is mostly based on gearman-ruby and gearman.net.

Thanks to the Node.js community for excellent people, tools, resources, examples, documentation, and inspiration.

Copyright (c) 2011 Nathan L Smith

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