no hello for main::mycall

[spider.git] / perl / Thingy.pm

diff --git a/perl/Thingy.pm b/perl/Thingy.pm
index 7bbf3edb1568673e265769b36926ea0068dea786..522e4b136d0c7ea80ff55f8c31c2e3d4f5fb3acc 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/Thingy.pm
+++ b/perl/Thingy.pm
@@ -65,15 +65,13 @@ sub send
        }
 
        # generate the line which may (or not) be cached
-       my @out;
-       if (my $ref = $thing->{class}) {
-               push @out, ref $ref ? @$ref : $ref;
-       } else {
+       my $ref;
+       unless ($ref = $thing->{class}) {
                no strict 'refs';
                my $sub = "gen_$class";
-               push @out, $thing->$sub($dxchan) if $thing->can($sub);
+               $ref = $thing->$sub($dxchan) if $thing->can($sub);
        }
-       $dxchan->send(@out) if @out;
+       $dxchan->send(ref $ref ? @$ref : $ref) if $ref;
 }
 
 # broadcast to all except @_
@@ -98,11 +96,21 @@ sub queue
        push @queue, $thing;
 }
 
+#
 # this is the main commutator loop. In due course it will
-# become the *only* commutator loop
+# become the *only* commutator loop, This can be called in one
+# of two ways: either with 2 args or with none.
+#
+# The two arg form is an immediate "queue and handle" and does
+# a full cycle, immediately
+#
 sub process
 {
        my $thing;
+       if (@_ == 2) {
+               $thing = shift;
+               $thing->queue(shift);
+       }
        while (@queue) {
                $thing = shift @queue;
                my $dxchan = DXChannel->get($thing->{dxchan});