man Mail::Box::Collection () - a collection of subfolders

NAME

Mail::Box::Collection - a collection of subfolders

INHERITANCE

 Mail::Box::Collection
   is a User::Identity::Collection
   is a User::Identity::Item

 Mail::Box::Collection
   is a Mail::Reporter

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The Mail::Box::Collection object maintains a set Mail::Box::Identity objects, each describing a the location of a single mailbox (folder). The collection is used by the Mail::Box::Manage::User object to administer the folders of a single user, even if those folders are closed.

OVERLOADED

overload: @{} See OVERLOADED in User::Identity::Collection

overload: stringification See OVERLOADED in User::Identity::Collection

METHODS

Constructors

Mail::Box::Collection->new([NAME], OPTIONS)

 Option       Defined in       Default                                   
 description  L<User::Identity::Item>  undef                                     
 folder_type                   <from parent>                             
 item_type    L<User::Identity::Collection>  L<Mail::Box::Identity|Mail::Box::Identity>
 log          L<Mail::Reporter>  C<'WARNINGS'>                             
 manager                       <from parent>                             
 name         L<User::Identity::Item>  C<'folders'>                              
 parent       L<User::Identity::Item>  C<undef>                                  
 roles        L<User::Identity::Collection>  undef                                     
 trace        L<Mail::Reporter>  C<'WARNINGS'>
. description STRING . folder_type CLASS . item_type CLASS . log LEVEL . manager OBJECT An Mail::Box::Manager OBJECT (could be a Mail::Box::Manage::User). . name STRING . parent OBJECT . roles ROLE|ARRAY . trace LEVEL

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::Box::Collection->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::Box::Collection->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]]) See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

Mail::Box::Collection->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

Attributes

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

$obj->folderType([FOLDERCLASS]) Returns the type of folder (on this location). When specified, then FOLDERCLASS must be a Mail::Box extension.

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

$obj->manager The Mail::Box::Manager (usually a Mail::Box::Manage::User object), which is handling the opening of folders.

$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::Box::Collection->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

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: CW$object is not a collection.

The first argument is an object, but not of a class which extends User::Identity::Collection.

Error: Cannot create a CW$type to add this to my collection.

Some options are specified to create a CW$type object, which is native to this collection. However, for some reason this failed.

Error: Cannot load collection module for CW$type ($class).

Either the specified CW$type does not exist, or that module named CW$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 CW$name into CW$newname: already exists

Error: Cannot rename CW$name into CW$newname: doesn't exist

Error: Creation of a collection via CW$class failed.

The CW$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 CW$name

The collection with CW$name does not exist and can not be created.

Error: Package CW$package does not implement CW$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.

Error: Wrong type of role for CW$collection: requires a CW$expect but got a CW$type

Each CW$collection groups sets of roles of one specific type ($expect). You cannot add objects of a different CW$type.

REFERENCES

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

COPYRIGHTS

Distribution version 2.063. 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.