My take on this is to log things into ZeroMQ (via Message::Passing), and route them to Message::Passing::Output::WebHooks - the code for that output might not be as bullet proof as you’re looking for, but it should be a reasonable starting place.
I’d probably go right ahead and implement the timeout in that output for a first take - you’d lose anything which was waiting in a retry interval as and when you restarted the hook server, but that would presumably be very infrequently, and if you had _lots_ of timeouts, it could use a lot of RAM.. But depending upon that scale / relaibility you actually need both of these things might be just fine. Cheers Tom On Jan 15, 2014, at 7:28 PM, Bill Moseley <mose...@hank.org> wrote: > I'm running Catalyst under mod_perl2 (currently, subject to change). Some > requests trigger a callback to a user-provided URL -- a webhook. > > Obviously, it's best to do those asynchronously and not in-process. Don't > want a web request (or really an Apache process) hanging while waiting on an > external web server to respond. > > A queue is probably the best approach, but there's also some advantage of > having the Catalyst app make the webhook request -- specifically because the > Catalyst app has the context of the request and has application logging > available. > > How would you implement this? > > > How would that change if you wanted more than just "fire-and-forget"? For > example, if you wanted to provide some kind of retry interval for failed > callbacks. The external server might be temporarily down for maintenance. > > > Thanks, > > > -- > Bill Moseley > mose...@hank.org > _______________________________________________ > List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
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