NAME

Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured - smart unstructured field

INHERITANCE

Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured
  is a Mail::Message::Field::Full
  is a Mail::Message::Field
  is a Mail::Reporter

SYNOPSIS

my $f = Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->new(Comments => 'hi!');

DESCRIPTION

Unstructured fields do contain information which is not restricted in any way. RFC2822 defines some unstructured fields, but by default all unknown fields are unstructured as well. Things like attributes and comments have no meaning for unstructured fields, but encoding does.

OVERLOADED

overload: ""

See "OVERLOADED" in Mail::Message::Field

overload: +0

See "OVERLOADED" in Mail::Message::Field

overload: <=>

See "OVERLOADED" in Mail::Message::Field

overload: bool

See "OVERLOADED" in Mail::Message::Field

overload: cmp

See "OVERLOADED" in Mail::Message::Field

overload: stringification

See "OVERLOADED" in Mail::Message::Field::Full

METHODS

Constructors

$obj->clone

See "Constructors" in Mail::Message::Field

Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->from(FIELD, OPTIONS)

See "Constructors" in Mail::Message::Field::Full

Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->new(DATA)

When the DATA is specified as single line, the content part is considered to be correcly (character) encoded and escaped. Typically, it is a line as read from file. The folding of the line is kept as is.

In case more than one argument is provided, the second is considered the BODY. Attributes and other special things are not defined for unstructured fields, and therefore not valid options. The BODY can be a single string, a single OBJECT, or an array of OBJECTS. The objects are stringified (into a comma separated list). Each BODY element is interpreted with the specified encoding.

When the BODY is empty, the construction of the object fails: undef is returned.

-Option  --Defined in     --Default
 charset   Mail::Message::Field::Full  undef
 encoding  Mail::Message::Field::Full  'q'
 force     Mail::Message::Field::Full  false
 language  Mail::Message::Field::Full  undef
 log       Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
 trace     Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
charset => STRING
encoding => 'q'|'Q'|'b'|'B'
force => BOOLEAN
language => STRING
log => LEVEL
trace => LEVEL

example:

my $s = Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->new('Comment', 'Hi!');

# Use autodetect
my $s = Mail::Message::Field::Full->new('Comment', 'Hi!');
my $s = Mail::Message::Field::Full->new('Comment: Hi!');

The field

$obj->isStructured
Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->isStructured

See "The field" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->length

See "The field" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->nrLines

See "The field" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->print([FILEHANDLE])

See "The field" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->size

See "The field" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->string([WRAP])

See "The field" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->toDisclose

See "The field" in Mail::Message::Field

Access to the name

$obj->Name

See "Access to the name" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->name

See "Access to the name" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->wellformedName([STRING])

See "Access to the name" in Mail::Message::Field

Access to the body

$obj->body

See "Access to the body" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->decodedBody(OPTIONS)

See "Access to the body" in Mail::Message::Field::Full

$obj->folded

See "Access to the body" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->foldedBody([BODY])

See "Access to the body" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->stripCFWS([STRING])
Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->stripCFWS([STRING])

See "Access to the body" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->unfoldedBody([BODY, [WRAP]])

See "Access to the body" in Mail::Message::Field

Access to the content

$obj->addresses

See "Access to the content" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->attribute(NAME [, VALUE])

See "Access to the content" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->attributes

See "Access to the content" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->beautify

See "Access to the content" in Mail::Message::Field::Full

$obj->comment([STRING])

See "Access to the content" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->createComment(STRING, OPTIONS)
Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->createComment(STRING, OPTIONS)

See "Access to the content" in Mail::Message::Field::Full

$obj->createPhrase(STRING, OPTIONS)
Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->createPhrase(STRING, OPTIONS)

See "Access to the content" in Mail::Message::Field::Full

$obj->study

See "Access to the content" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->toDate([TIME])
Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->toDate([TIME])

See "Access to the content" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->toInt

See "Access to the content" in Mail::Message::Field

Other methods

$obj->dateToTimestamp(STRING)
Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->dateToTimestamp(STRING)

See "Other methods" in Mail::Message::Field

Internals

$obj->consume(LINE | (NAME,BODY|OBJECTS))

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->decode(STRING, OPTIONS)
Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->decode(STRING, OPTIONS)

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Field::Full

$obj->defaultWrapLength([LENGTH])

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->encode(STRING, OPTIONS)

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Field::Full

$obj->fold(NAME, BODY, [MAXCHARS])
Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->fold(NAME, BODY, [MAXCHARS])

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->setWrapLength([LENGTH])

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->stringifyData(STRING|ARRAY|OBJECTS)

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->unfold(STRING)

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Field

Parsing

$obj->consumeComment(STRING)
Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->consumeComment(STRING)

See "Parsing" in Mail::Message::Field::Full

$obj->consumeDotAtom(STRING)

See "Parsing" in Mail::Message::Field::Full

$obj->consumePhrase(STRING)
Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->consumePhrase(STRING)

See "Parsing" in Mail::Message::Field::Full

$obj->parse(STRING)

See "Parsing" in Mail::Message::Field::Full

$obj->produceBody

See "Parsing" in Mail::Message::Field::Full

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::Message::Field::Unstructured->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::Message::Field::Unstructured->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)
Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->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

DIAGNOSTICS

Warning: Field content is not numerical: $content

The numeric value of a field is requested (for instance the Lines or Content-Length fields should be numerical), however the data contains weird characters.

Warning: Illegal character in charset '$charset'

The field is created with an utf8 string which only contains data from the specified character set. However, that character set can never be a valid name because it contains characters which are not permitted.

Warning: Illegal character in field name $name

A new field is being created which does contain characters not permitted by the RFCs. Using this field in messages may break other e-mail clients or transfer agents, and therefore mutulate or extinguish your message.

Warning: Illegal character in language '$lang'

The field is created with data which is specified to be in a certain language, however, the name of the language cannot be valid: it contains characters which are not permitted by the RFCs.

Warning: Illegal encoding '$encoding', used 'q'

The RFCs only permit base64 (b or B ) or quoted-printable (q or Q) encoding. Other than these four options are illegal.

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.

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.099, built on July 07, 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