Gearman Client and Worker for nodejs

##Why Another Nodejs Gearman Client? I evaluated several existing libraries on github, but they either lack features, or stability, or recent updates.

PROS:

• full implementation of worker and client
• lean abstraction over raw gearman protocol
• lots of unit tests
• fast
• small
• fully interoperable with gearman clients and workers written in other languages

CONS:

• lacks elegant high level abstractions for doing work. A bit more boilerplate to write
• only supports 1 server connection per client/worker
• documentation is lacking. This is a priority and it's being addressed

Install

git clone https://github.com/mreinstein/node-gearman.git
npm install ./node-gearman
rm -rf node-gearman

Test

npm test

Cookbook

create a client, create 1 job, and handle it's completion

Gearman = require('gearman').Gearman

client = new Gearman("localhost", 4730 , {timeout: 3000}) # timeout in milliseconds. 

# handle timeout 
client.on 'timeout', () ->
	console.log 'Timeout occurred'
	client.close()


# handle finished jobs
client.on 'WORK_COMPLETE', (job) ->
	console.log 'job completed, result:', job.payload.toString()
	client.close()

# connect to the gearman server
client.connect ->
	# submit a job to uppercase a string with normal priority in the foreground
	client.submitJob 'upper', 'Hello, World!'

create a worker, register a function, and handle jobs

Gearman = require('gearman').Gearman

worker = new Gearman('127.0.0.1', 4730) 

# handle jobs assigned by the server
worker.on 'JOB_ASSIGN', (job) ->
	console.log job.func_name + ' job assigned to this worker'
	result = job.payload.toString().toUpperCase()
	# notify the server the job is done
	worker.sendWorkComplete job.handle, result

	# go back to sleep, telling the server we're ready for more work
	worker.preSleep()

# grab a job when the server signals one is available
worker.on 'NOOP', ->
	worker.grabJob()

# connect to the gearman server	
worker.connect ->
	# register the functions this worker is capable of
	worker.addFunction 'upper'

	# tell the server the worker is going to sleep, waiting for work
	worker.preSleep()