I would like to push data to connected browsers from anywhere I like. The following code is copied from the Mojolicious tutorials (more or less).

sub websockets_handler {
    my $self = shift;

    # Opened
    $self->app->log->debug('WebSocket opened.');

    # Increase inactivity timeout for connection a bit
    Mojo::IOLoop->stream($self->tx->connection)->timeout(300);

    # Incoming message
    $self->on(message => sub {
      my ($self, $msg) = @_;
      $self->send({text => $msg});
    });


    # Closed
    $self->on(finish => sub {
      my ($self, $code, $reason) = @_;
      $self->app->log->debug("WebSocket closed with status $code.");
    });
}
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What I'd ideally like to do is insert something like this inside the websockets handler...

  my $cb = $self->stash('logchanvar')->on(message => sub {
        my ($log, $level, @lines) = @_;

        $self->send({ text => $lines[0] });
...
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The $self->stash('logchanvar') is a log object. When I write to it, it emits a message event. You assign a callback to the event, then you send data to connected browsers through the websockets channel from inside the callback.

So I can just write to the log object from anywhere, then the message would get sent to the browsers. The above code doesn't work. The error message says that $self is not a websockets object. The weird thing is that if I called the $self->send... from inside an AnyEvent::Util::runcmd callback, it works. I'm new to the site. I've been programming Perl as a hobby for some years. This is just for a personal project. Nothing critical. Any help is greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.