Dist::Metadata::Archive(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      Dist::Metadata::Archive(3pm)

NAME

       Dist::Metadata::Archive - Base class for Dist::Metadata archive files

VERSION

       version 0.923

SYNOPSIS

	 my $dist = Dist::Metadata->new(file => $path_to_archive);

DESCRIPTION

       This is a subclass of Dist::Metadata::Dist to enable determining the metadata from an archive file.

       It is a base class for archive file formats:

       o   Dist::Metadata::Tar

       o   Dist::Metadata::Zip

       It's not useful on it's own and should be used from "new" in Dist::Metadata.

METHODS

   new
	 $dist = Dist::Metadata::Archive->new(file => $path);

       Accepts a single "file" argument that should be a path to a file.

       If called from this base class "new()" will delegate to a subclass based on the filename and return a blessed instance of that subclass.

   archive
       Returns an object representing the archive file.

   default_file_spec
       Returns "Unix" since most archive files are be in unix format.

   determine_name_and_version
       Attempts to parse name and version from file name.

   file
       The "file" attribute passed to the constructor, used to load "archive".

   read_archive
	 $dist->read_archive($file);

       Returns a format-specific object representing the specified file.

       This must be defined by subclasses.

AUTHOR

       Randy Stauner <rwstauner@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Randy Stauner.

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

perl v5.14.2							    2012-06-19					      Dist::Metadata::Archive(3pm)