NAME

Archive::Libarchive::Entry - Libarchive entry class

VERSION

version 0.09

SYNOPSIS

 use 5.020;
 use Archive::Libarchive;
 
 my $text = "Hello World!\n";
 
 my $e = Archive::Libarchive::Entry->new;
 $e->set_pathname("hello.txt");
 $e->set_filetype('reg');
 $e->set_size(length $text);
 $e->set_mtime(time);
 $e->set_mode(oct('0644'));

DESCRIPTION

This class represents an entry, which is file metadata for a file stored in an archive or on the local file system.

CONSTRUCTOR

This is a subset of total list of methods available to all archive classes. For the full list see "Archive::Libarchive::Entry" in Archive::Libarchive::API.

 my $e = Archive::Libarchive::Entry->new;

METHODS

This is a subset of total list of methods available to all archive classes. For the full list see "Archive::Libarchive::Entry" in Archive::Libarchive::API.

 # archive_entry_filetype
 my $code = $e->filetype;

 # archive_entry_set_filetype
 $e->set_filetype($code);

 # archive_entry_digest
 my $string = $e->digest($type);

 # archive_entry_xattr_add_entry
 my $int = $e->xattr_add_entry($name, $value);

 # archive_entry_xattr_next
 my $int = $e->xattr_next(\$name, $value);

 # archive_entry_copy_stat
 $e->copy_stat($stat);

 # archive_entry_stat
 my $stat = $e->stat;

 # archive_entry_clone
 my $e2 = $e->clone;

 # archive_entry_copy_mac_metadata
 $e->copy_mac_metadata($meta);

 # archive_entry_mac_metadata
 my $meta = $e->mac_metadata;

SEE ALSO

Archive::Libarchive::Peek

Provides an interface for listing and retrieving entries from an archive without extracting them to the local filesystem.

Archive::Libarchive::Extract

Provides an interface for extracting arbitrary archives of any format/filter supported by "libarchive".

Archive::Libarchive::Unwrap

Decompresses / unwraps files that have been compressed or wrapped in any of the filter formats supported by "libarchive"

Archive::Libarchive

This is the main top-level module for using "libarchive" from Perl. It is the best place to start reading the documentation. It pulls in the other classes and "libarchive" constants so that you only need one "use" statement to effectively use "libarchive".

Archive::Libarchive::API

This contains the full and complete API for all of the Archive::Libarchive classes. Because "libarchive" has hundreds of methods, the main documentation pages elsewhere only contain enough to be useful, and not to overwhelm.

Archive::Libarchive::Archive

The base class of all archive classes. This includes some common error reporting functionality among other things.

Archive::Libarchive::ArchiveRead

This class is used for reading from archives.

Archive::Libarchive::ArchiveWrite

This class is for creating new archives.

Archive::Libarchive::DiskRead

This class is for reading Archive::Libarchive::Entry objects from disk so that they can be written to Archive::Libarchive::ArchiveWrite objects.

Archive::Libarchive::DiskWrite

This class is for writing Archive::Libarchive::Entry objects to disk that have been written from Archive::Libarchive::ArchiveRead objects.

Archive::Libarchive::EntryLinkResolver

This class exposes the "libarchive" link resolver API.

Archive::Libarchive::Match

This class exposes the "libarchive" match API.

Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Libarchive

Build Dist::Zilla based dist tarballs with libarchive instead of the built in Archive::Tar.

Alien::Libarchive3

If a suitable system "libarchive" can't be found, then this Alien will be installed to provide it.

libarchive.org <http://libarchive.org/>

The "libarchive" project home page.

<https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki>

The "libarchive" project wiki.

<https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/ManualPages>

Some of the "libarchive" man pages are listed here.

AUTHOR

Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2021,2022 by Graham Ollis.

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