NAME

KinoSearch::Store::Folder - Abstract class representing a directory.

SYNOPSIS

# Abstract base class.

DESCRIPTION

Abstract class representing a directory.

The archetypal implementation of Folder, FSFolder, is a single directory on the file system holding a collection of files. However, to allow alternative implementations such as RAMFolder, i/o and file manipulation are abstracted out rather than executed directly by KinoSearch's classes.

A "file" within an folder might be a real file on disk -- or it might be a ram file. Similarly, delete() might delete a file from the file system, or a key-value pair from a hash, or something else.

INHERITANCE

KinoSearch::Store::Folder isa KinoSearch::Obj.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2005-2009 Marvin Humphrey

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