NAME

Archive::Any::Plugin - Anatomy of an Archive::Any plugin.

VERSION

version 0.0946

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;
}
            
          

SEE ALSO

Archive::Any

AUTHORS

• Clint Moore

• Michael G Schwern (author emeritus)

• Olaf Alders (current maintainer)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Michael G Schwern, Clint Moore, 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.