add a basic runloop

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/examples/client.rs b/examples/client.rs
index 98900ef..f1f2479 100644
--- a/examples/client.rs
+++ b/examples/client.rs
@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ extern crate irc;
 
 fn main () {
     let mut client = irc::ClientBuilder::new("doytest", "chat.freenode.net").connect();
-
-    loop {
-        let res = client.read();
-        println!("{}", res);
-    }
+    client.run_loop_with(|m| {
+        println!("{}", m);
+    });
 }
diff --git a/src/client.rs b/src/client.rs
index 2824df2..3beda7d 100644
--- a/src/client.rs
+++ b/src/client.rs
@@ -133,4 +133,16 @@ impl Client {
             None => None,
         }
     }
+
+    // XXX eventually, we'll want to set up callbacks for specific events
+    // beforehand, and just have a `run_loop` method that loops and calls the
+    // preset callbacks as necessary. unfortunately, rust doesn't handle
+    // storing closures very well yet if they need to receive a borrowed
+    // pointer, and we would need to pass the client object into the callback
+    // in order to make this work
+    pub fn run_loop_with (&mut self, handler: |Message|) {
+        loop {
+            handler(self.read());
+        }
+    }
 }