Ecore poller provides infrastructure for the creation of pollers. Pollers are, in essence, callbacks that share a single timer per type. Because not all pollers need to be called at the same frequency the user may specify the frequency in ticks(each expiration of the shared timer is called a tick, in ecore poller parlance) for each added poller. Ecore pollers should only be used when the poller doesn't have specific requirements on the exact times to poll.

This architecture means that the main loop is only woken up once to handle all pollers of that type, this will save power as the CPU has more of a chance to go into a low power state the longer it is asleep for, so this should be used in situations where power usage is a concern.

For now only 1 core poller type is supported: ECORE_POLLER_CORE, the default interval for ECORE_POLLER_CORE is 0.125(or 1/8th) second.

The creation of a poller is extremely simple and only requires one line:

 ecore_poller_add(ECORE_POLLER_CORE, 1, my_poller_function, NULL);

This sample creates a poller to call my_poller_function at every tick with NULL as data.

Example:

ecore poller - Repetitive polling tasks

Enumeration Type Documentation

enum Ecore_Poller_Type

Enumerator:

ECORE_POLLER_CORE

The core poller interval

Function Documentation

Ecore_Poller* ecore_poller_add	(	Ecore_Poller_Type	type,
		int	interval,
		Ecore_Task_Cb	func,
		const void *	data
	)

Creates a poller to call the given function at a particular tick interval.

Parameters:

type	The ticker type to attach the poller to. Must be ECORE_POLLER_CORE.
interval	The poll interval.
func	The poller function.
data	Data to pass to func when it is called.

Returns:: A poller object on success, NULL otherwise.

This function adds func as a poller callback that will be called every interval ticks together with other pollers of type type. func will be passed the data pointer as a parameter.

The interval must be between 1 and 32768 inclusive, and must be a power of 2 (i.e. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ... 16384, 32768). The exact tick in which func will be called is undefined, as only the interval between calls can be defined. Ecore will endeavor to keep pollers synchronized and to call as many in 1 wakeup event as possible. If interval is not a power of two, the closest power of 2 greater than interval will be used.

When the poller func is called, it must return a value of either ECORE_CALLBACK_RENEW(or 1) or ECORE_CALLBACK_CANCEL(or 0). If it returns 1, it will be called again at the next tick, or if it returns 0 it will be deleted automatically making any references/handles for it invalid.

Since :: 2.3

Examples:: ecore_poller_example.c.

void* ecore_poller_del ( Ecore_Poller * poller )

Deletes the specified poller from the timer list.

Parameters:

poller The poller to delete.

Returns:: The data pointer set for the timer when ecore_poller_add was called on success, NULL otherwise.

Note:: poller must be a valid handle. If the poller function has already returned 0, the handle is no longer valid (and does not need to be deleted).

Since :: 2.3

Examples:: ecore_poller_example.c.

double ecore_poller_poll_interval_get ( Ecore_Poller_Type type )

Gets the time(in seconds) between ticks for the given poller type.

Parameters:

type	The poller type to query.

Returns:: The time in seconds between ticks of the poller timer.

This will get the time between ticks of the specified poller timer.

Since :: 2.3

void ecore_poller_poll_interval_set	(	Ecore_Poller_Type	type,
		double	poll_time
	)

Sets the time(in seconds) between ticks for the given poller type.

Parameters:

type	The poller type to adjust.
poll_time	The time(in seconds) between ticks of the timer.

This will adjust the time between ticks of the given timer type defined by type to the time period defined by poll_time.

Since :: 2.3

Examples:: ecore_poller_example.c.

int ecore_poller_poller_interval_get ( const Ecore_Poller * obj )

Polling interval rate of the poller.

Returns:: The tick interval; must be a power of 2 and <= 32768.

Since :: 2.3

Eina_Bool ecore_poller_poller_interval_set	(	Ecore_Poller *	obj,
		int	interval
	)

Polling interval rate of the poller.

Parameters:

[in] interval The tick interval; must be a power of 2 and <= 32768.

Returns:: true on success, false on failure.

Since :: 2.3

Examples:: ecore_poller_example.c.