NAME

Mail::Box::Collection - a collection of subfolders

INHERITANCE

Mail::Box::Collection
  is a User::Identity::Collection
  is a User::Identity::Item

Mail::Box::Collection
  is a Mail::Reporter

DESCRIPTION

The Mail::Box::Collection object maintains a set Mail::Box::Identity objects, each describing a the location of a single mailbox (folder). The collection is used by the Mail::Box::Manage::User object to administer the folders of a single user, even if those folders are closed.

OVERLOADED

overload: @{}

See "OVERLOADED" in User::Identity::Collection

overload: stringification

See "OVERLOADED" in User::Identity::Collection

METHODS

Constructors

Mail::Box::Collection->new([NAME], OPTIONS)

-Option     --Defined in     --Default
 description  User::Identity::Item  undef
 folder_type                   <from parent>
 item_type    User::Identity::Collection  Mail::Box::Identity
 log          Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
 manager                       <from parent>
 name         User::Identity::Item  'folders'
 parent       User::Identity::Item  undef
 roles        User::Identity::Collection  undef
 trace        Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'

description => STRING

folder_type => CLASS

item_type => CLASS

log => LEVEL

manager => OBJECT

An Mail::Box::Manager OBJECT (could be a Mail::Box::Manage::User).

name => STRING

parent => OBJECT

roles => ROLE|ARRAY

trace => LEVEL

Error handling

$obj->AUTOLOAD

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->addReport(OBJECT)

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

Mail::Box::Collection->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->errors

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

Mail::Box::Collection->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

Mail::Box::Collection->logPriority(LEVEL)

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logSettings

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->notImplemented

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->report([LEVEL])

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->reportAll([LEVEL])

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->trace([LEVEL])

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->warnings

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

Cleanup

$obj->DESTROY

See "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->inGlobalDestruction

See "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter

Attributes

$obj->description

See "Attributes" in User::Identity::Item

$obj->folderType([FOLDERCLASS])

Returns the type of folder (on this location). When specified, then FOLDERCLASS must be a Mail::Box extension.

$obj->itemType

See "Attributes" in User::Identity::Collection

$obj->manager

The Mail::Box::Manager (usually a Mail::Box::Manage::User object), which is handling the opening of folders.

$obj->name([NEWNAME])

See "Attributes" in User::Identity::Item

$obj->roles

See "Attributes" in User::Identity::Collection

Collections

$obj->add(COLLECTION, ROLE)

See "Collections" in User::Identity::Item

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

See "Collections" in User::Identity::Item

$obj->collection(NAME)

See "Collections" in User::Identity::Item

$obj->parent([PARENT])

See "Collections" in User::Identity::Item

$obj->removeCollection(OBJECT|NAME)

See "Collections" in User::Identity::Item

$obj->type

Mail::Box::Collection->type

See "Collections" in User::Identity::Item

$obj->user

See "Collections" in User::Identity::Item

Maintaining roles

$obj->addRole(ROLE| ( [NAME],OPTIONS ) | ARRAY-OF-OPTIONS)

See "Maintaining roles" in User::Identity::Collection

$obj->removeRole(ROLE|NAME)

See "Maintaining roles" in User::Identity::Collection

$obj->renameRole(ROLE|OLDNAME, NEWNAME)

See "Maintaining roles" in User::Identity::Collection

$obj->sorted

See "Maintaining roles" in User::Identity::Collection

Searching

$obj->find(NAME|CODE|undef)

See "Searching" in User::Identity::Collection

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 create a $type to add this to my collection.

Some options are specified to create a $type object, which is native to this collection. However, for some reason this failed.

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: Cannot rename $name into $newname: already exists

Error: Cannot rename $name into $newname: doesn't exist

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.

Error: Package $package does not implement $method.

Fatal error: the specific package (or one of its superclasses) does not implement this method where it should. This message means that some other related classes do implement this method however the class at hand does not. Probably you should investigate this and probably inform the author of the package.

Error: Wrong type of role for $collection: requires a $expect but got a $type

Each $collection groups sets of roles of one specific type ($expect). You cannot add objects of a different $type.

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.097, built on January 26, 2011. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

LICENSE

Copyrights 2001-2011 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html