Archive::Any::Plugin(3) Anatomy of an Archive::Any plugin.

VERSION

version 0.0945

SYNOPSIS

Explains what is required for a working plugin to Archive::Any.

PLUGINS

Archive::Any requires that your plugin define three methods, all of which are passed the absolute filename of the file. This module uses the source of Archive::Any::Plugin::Tar as an example.
Subclass Archive::Any::Plugin
 use base 'Archive::Any::Plugin';
can_handle
This returns an array of mime types that the plugin can handle.

 sub can_handle {
    return(
           'application/x-tar',
           'application/x-gtar',
           'application/x-gzip',
          );
 }
files
Return a list of items inside the archive.

 sub files {
    my( $self, $file ) = @_;
    my $t = Archive::Tar->new( $file );
    return $t->list_files;
 }
extract
This method should extract the contents of $file to the current directory. Archive::Any::Plugin handles negotiating directories for you.

 sub extract {
    my ( $self, $file ) = @_;
    my $t = Archive::Tar->new( $file );
    return $t->extract;
 }

AUTHORS

  • Clint Moore
  • Michael G Schwern (author emeritus)
  • Olaf Alders (current maintainer)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Olaf Alders.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.