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Mail-Box-2.066
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/ Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured

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: ""

overload: +0

overload: <=>

overload: bool

overload: cmp

overload: stringification

METHODS

Constructors

$obj->clone

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

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

$obj->length

$obj->nrLines

$obj->print([FILEHANDLE])

$obj->size

$obj->string([WRAP])

$obj->toDisclose

Access to the name

$obj->Name

$obj->name

$obj->wellformedName([STRING])

Access to the body

$obj->body

$obj->decodedBody(OPTIONS)

$obj->folded

$obj->foldedBody([BODY])

$obj->stripCFWS([STRING])

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

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

Access to the content

$obj->addresses

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

$obj->attributes

$obj->beautify

$obj->comment([STRING])

$obj->createComment(STRING, OPTIONS)

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

$obj->createPhrase(STRING, OPTIONS)

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

$obj->study

$obj->toDate([TIME])

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

$obj->toInt

Other methods

$obj->dateToTimestamp(STRING)

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

Internals

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

$obj->decode(STRING, OPTIONS)

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

$obj->defaultWrapLength([LENGTH])

$obj->encode(STRING, OPTIONS)

$obj->fold(NAME, BODY, [MAXCHARS])

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

$obj->setWrapLength([LENGTH])

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

$obj->unfold(STRING)

Parsing

$obj->consumeComment(STRING)

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

$obj->consumeDotAtom(STRING)

$obj->consumePhrase(STRING)

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

$obj->parse(STRING)

$obj->produceBody

Error handling

$obj->AUTOLOAD

$obj->addReport(OBJECT)

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

Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

$obj->errors

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

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

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

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

$obj->logSettings

$obj->notImplemented

$obj->report([LEVEL])

$obj->reportAll([LEVEL])

$obj->trace([LEVEL])

$obj->warnings

Cleanup

$obj->DESTROY

$obj->inGlobalDestruction

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.

DETAILS

REFERENCES

See the MailBox website at http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/ for more details.

COPYRIGHTS

Distribution version 2.066. Written by Mark Overmeer (mark@overmeer.net). See the ChangeLog for other contributors.

Copyright (c) 2001-2003 by the author(s). All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.