Mail::Message::Field::AddrGroup(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		      Mail::Message::Field::AddrGroup(3pm)

NAME

       Mail::Message::Field::AddrGroup - A group of Mail::Message::Field::Address objects

INHERITANCE

	Mail::Message::Field::AddrGroup
	  is a User::Identity::Collection::Emails
	  is a User::Identity::Collection
	  is a User::Identity::Item

SYNOPSIS

	my $g = Mail::Message::Field::AddrGroup->new(name => 'name');

	my $a = Mail::Message::Field::Address->new(...);
	$g->addAddress($a);

	my $f = Mail::Message::Field::Addresses->new;
	$f->addGroup($g);

DESCRIPTION

       An address group collects a set of e-mail addresses (in this case they are Mail::Message::Field::Address objects).

OVERLOADED

       overload: @{}()
	   See "OVERLOADED" in User::Identity::Collection

       overload: stringification()
	   Returns the string() value.

METHODS

       $obj->string()
	   Returns the address group as string.  When no name is specified, it will only be a comma separated list of addresses.  With a name, the
	   groups name will be prepended and a semi-colon appended.  When no addresses where included and there is no name, then "undef" is
	   returned.

   Constructors
       $obj->coerce(OBJECT)
	   Coerce an OBJECT into a Mail::Message::Field::AddrGroup.  Currently, you can only coerce User::Identity::Collection::Emails (which is
	   the base class for this one) into this one.

       Mail::Message::Field::AddrGroup->new([NAME], OPTIONS)
	   See "Constructors" in User::Identity::Collection::Emails

   Attributes
       $obj->description()
	   See "Attributes" in User::Identity::Item

       $obj->itemType()
	   See "Attributes" in User::Identity::Collection

       $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::Message::Field::AddrGroup->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

   Addresses
       $obj->addAddress(STRING|ADDRESS|OPTIONS)
	   Add one e-mail address to the list which is maintained in the group. This is a wrapper around addRole() adding flexibility on how
	   addresses are specified.  An ADDRESS can be anything which is acceptable for Mail::Message::Field::Address::coerce() or a list of
	   options which will create such an object.

	   example: of adding an address to an address group

	    my @data = (full_name => "Myself", address => 'me@tux.org');
	    $group->addAddress(@data);

	    my $addr = Mail::Message::Field::Address->new(@data);
	    $group->addAddress(@data);

	    my $ma = Mail::Address->new(...);
	    $group->addAddress($ma);

       $obj->addresses()
	   Returns all addresses defined in this group.  The addresses will be ordered alphabetically to make automated testing possible: roles
	   are stored in a hash, so have an unpredictable order by default.

	   example: getting all addresses from a group

	    my @addrs = $group->addresses;
	    my @addrs = map { $_->address } $self->roles; #same

   Error handling
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 coerce a $type into a Mail::Message::Field::AddrGroup
       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: 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 2.105, built on May 07, 2012. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

LICENSE

       Copyrights 2001-2012 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

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-07				      Mail::Message::Field::AddrGroup(3pm)