User::Identity::Archive - base class for archiving user information


NAME

User::Identity::Archive - base class for archiving user information


INHERITANCE

 User::Identity::Archive
   is a User::Identity::Item
 User::Identity::Archive is extended by
   User::Identity::Archive::Plain


SYNOPSIS

 use User::Identity::Archive::Plain;
 my $friends = User::Identity::Archive::Plain->new('friends');
 $friends->from(\*FH);
 $friends->from('.friends');


DESCRIPTION

An archive stores collections. It depends on the type of archive how and where that is done. Some archivers may limit the kinds of selections which can be stored.


OVERLOADED


METHODS

Constructors

User::Identity::Archive->new([NAME], OPTIONS)

 Option       Defined in       Default   
 description  L<User::Identity::Item>  undef     
 from                          C<undef>  
 name         L<User::Identity::Item>  <required>
 parent       L<User::Identity::Item>  C<undef>

. description STRING

. from FILEHANDLE|FILENAME

. name STRING

. parent OBJECT

Attributes

$obj->description

See Attributes in the User::Identity::Item manpage

$obj->name([NEWNAME])

See Attributes in the User::Identity::Item manpage

Collections

$obj->add(COLLECTION, ROLE)

See Collections in the User::Identity::Item manpage

$obj->addCollection(OBJECT | ([TYPE], OPTIONS))

See Collections in the User::Identity::Item manpage

$obj->collection(NAME)

See Collections in the User::Identity::Item manpage

$obj->find(COLLECTION, ROLE)

See Collections in the User::Identity::Item manpage

$obj->parent([PARENT])

See Collections in the User::Identity::Item manpage

$obj->removeCollection(OBJECT|NAME)

See Collections in the User::Identity::Item manpage

$obj->type

User::Identity::Archive->type

See Collections in the User::Identity::Item manpage

$obj->user

See Collections in the User::Identity::Item manpage

Access to the archive

$obj->from(SOURCE, OPTIONS)

Read definitions from the specified SOURCE, which usually can be a filehandle or filename. The syntax used in the information SOURCE is archiver dependent.

Not all archivers implement from(), so you may want to check with UNIVERSAL::can() beforehand.

Example:

 use User::Identity::Archive::Some;
 my $a = User::Identity::Archive::Some->new('xyz');
 $a->from(\*STDIN) if $a->can('from');


DIAGNOSTICS

Error: $object is not a collection.

The first argument is an object, but not of a class which extends User::Identity::Collection.

Error: Cannot load collection module for $type ($class).

Either the specified $type does not exist, or that module named $class returns compilation errors. If the type as specified in the warning is not the name of a package, you specified a nickname which was not defined. Maybe you forgot the 'require' the package which defines the nickname.

Error: Creation of a collection via $class failed.

The $class did compile, but it was not possible to create an object of that class using the options you specified.

Error: Don't know what type of collection you want to add.

If you add a collection, it must either by a collection object or a list of options which can be used to create a collection object. In the latter case, the type of collection must be specified.

Warning: No collection $name

The collection with $name does not exist and can not be created.


REFERENCES

See the User::Identity website at http://perl.overmeer.net/userid/ for more details.


COPYRIGHTS

User::Identity version 0.90. Written by Mark Overmeer (mark@overmeer.net) See the ChangeLog for other contributors.

Copyright (c) 2003 by the author(s). All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

 User::Identity::Archive - base class for archiving user information