respawner v1.0.2

respawner

Description

respawner is a simple module that spawns a specified child process on a set interval.

Installation

npm install respawner

Example

var Respawner = require('respawner');

var respawner = new Respawner('/path/to/process', '-arg1 -arg2');

respawner.on('exit', function (data) {
    console.log('Process exited. Data returned: ' + data);
});

respawner.start(10000); // Spawns a new process every 10 seconds.

API

Respawner

Spawns a child process at a set interval.

Kind: global class

• Respawner
  • new Respawner(path, args)
  • .start([interval])
  • .stop([stopNow])
  • "error"
  • "exit"
  • "data"

new Respawner(path, args)

Initializes a new instance of respawner.

respawner.start(interval)

Starts spawning the child process.

Kind: instance method of Respawner

respawner.stop(stopNow)

Stops spawning the child process.

Kind: instance method of Respawner

"error"

'error' event. Is emitted if the child process cannot be spawned.

Kind: event emitted by Respawner

"exit"

'exit' event. Is emitted when the child process exits. All concatenated data from the child process's stdout is returned.

Kind: event emitted by Respawner

"data"

'data' event. Is emitted when data is received from the child process's stdout.

Kind: event emitted by Respawner