Public methods¶

new ( [ options... ] )

Constructor. Creates new instance of the class.

marshal ( $message, [ keep_keys => 1 ] )

Instance method. Gets marshalled key (file name) of the message.

Parameters:

next ( [ no_filter => 1 ], [ no_lock => 1 ] )

Instance method. Gets next message to process, order is controlled by name of spool file and so on. Message will be locked to prevent multiple processing of a single message.

Parameters:

quarantine ( $handle )

Instance method. Quarantines a message. On filesystem spool, message will be moved into "{bad_directory}" of the spool using rename().

Parameter:

remove ( $handle )

Instance method. Removes a message.

Parameter:

size ( )

Instance method. Gets the number of messages the spool contains.

Parameters:

None.

Returns:

Number of messages.

Note: This method returns the number of messages _load() returns, not applying _filter().

store ( $message, [ original => $original ] )

Instance method. Stores the message into spool.

Parameters:

unmarshal ( $marshalled )

Instance method. Gets metadata from marshalled key (file name).

Parameters:

Properties¶

Instance of Sympa::Spool may have following properties.

Directories

Directories _directories() method returns: "{directory}", "{bad_directory}" and so on.

Low level functions¶

build_glob_pattern ( $marshal_format, $marshal_keys, [ key => value, ... ] )

Function. Builds a glob pattern from parameters and returns it. If built pattern is empty or contains only punctuations, i.e. "[^0-9A-Za-z\x80-\xFF]", will return "undef".

split_listname ( $robot, $localpart )

Function. Split local part of e-mail to list name and type. Returns an array "(name, type)". Note that the list with returned name may or may not exist.

If local part looks like listmaster or sympa address, name is "undef" and type is either 'listmaster' or 'sympa'. Otherwise, type is either 'editor', 'owner', 'return_path', 'subscribe', 'unsubscribe', 'UNKNOWN' or "undef".

Note: For "-request" and "-owner" suffix, this function returns "owner" and "return_path" types, respectively.

store_spool ( $spool_dir, $message, $marshal_format, $marshal_keys, [ key => value, ... ] )

Function. Store $message into directory $spool_dir as a file with name as marshalled metadata using $marshal_format and $marshal_keys.

unmarshal_metadata ( $spool_dir, $marshalled, $marshal_regexp, $marshal_keys )

Function. Unmarshals metadata. Returns hashref with keys in arrayref $marshal_keys and values with substrings captured by regexp $marshal_regexp. If $marshalled did not match against $marshal_regexp, returns "undef".

The keys "localpart" and "domainpart" are special. Following keys are derived from them: "context", "listname", "listtype", "priority".

marshal_metadata ( $message, $marshal_format, $marshal_keys, [ keep_keys => 1 ] )

Function. Marshals metadata. Returns formatted string by sprintf() using $marshal_format and metadatas indexed by keys in arrayref $marshal_keys.

If key is uppercase, it means auto-generated value: 'AUTHKEY', 'KEYAUTH', 'PID', 'RAND', 'TIME'. Otherwise it means metadata or property of $message. If "keep_keys" option (added on 6.2.23b) is set, forces using latter.

sprintf() is executed under "C" locale: Full stop (".") is always used for decimal point in floating point number.

Methods subclass should implement¶

_create ( )

Instance method, overridable. Creates spool. By default, creates directories returned by _directories().

_directories ( [ options, ... ] )

Class or instance method, mandatory for filesystem spool. Returns hashref with directory paths related to the spool as values. It must have keys at least "directory" and (if you wish to implement quarantine() method) "bad_directory".

_filter ( $metadata )

Instance method, overridable. If it returned false value, processing of $metadata by next() will be skipped. By default, always returns true value.

This method may modify unmarshalled metadata _and_ deserialized messages include it.

_filter_pre ( $metadata )

Instance method, overridable. If it returned false value, processing of $metadata by store() will be skipped. By default, always returns true value.

This method may modify marshalled metadata _but_ stored messages are not affected.

_generator ( )

Class or instance method, mandatory. Returns name of the class to serialize and deserialize messages in the spool. If spool subclass is the collection (see _is_collection), generator class must implement new(). Otherwise, generator class must implement dup(), new() and to_string().

_glob_pattern ( )

Deprecated. See _no_glob_pattern ( )

_init ( $state )

Instance method. Additional processing when _load() returns no contents ($state is 1) or when the spool class is instantiated ($state is 0).

_is_collection ( )

Instance method, overridable. If the class is collection of spool class, returns true value. By default returns false value.

Collection class does not have store() method. Its content is the set of spool instances.

_load ( )

Instance method, overridable. Loads sorted content of spool. Returns arrayref of marshalled metadatas. By default, returns content of "{directory}" directory sorted by file name.

_marshal_format ( )

_marshal_keys ( )

_marshal_regexp ( )

Instance methods, mandatory for filesystem spool. _marshal_format() and _marshal_keys() are used to marshal metadata. _marshal_keys() and _marshal_regexp() are used to unmarshal metadata. See also marshal_metadata() and unmarshal_metadata().

_no_glob_pattern ( )

Class or instance method, overridable for filesystem spool. If it returns false value, glob() is used as much as possible to scan the spool faster. Otherwise readdir() is used for filesystem spool to get all entries. By default returns false value.

_store_key ( )

Instance method. If implemented and returns non-empty string, store() returns an item in metadata specified by this method. By default store() returns marshalled metadata (file name on filesystem spool).

Marshaling and unmarshaling metadata¶

Spool class gives generator class the metadata to instantiate it. On spool based on filesystem, it is typically encoded into file names. For example a file name in incoming spool (Sympa::Spool::Incoming)

  listname-owner@domain.name.143599229.12345

encodes the metadata

  localpart  => 'listname-owner',
  listname   => 'listname',
  listtype   => 'return_path',
  domainpart => 'domain.name',
  date       => 143599229,

Metadata always includes information of context: List, Robot, Site (or Family). For example:

- Message in incoming spool bound for <listname@domain.name>:

  context    => Sympa::List <listname@domain.name>,

- Command message in incoming spool bound for <sympa@domain.name>:

  context    => 'domain.name',

- Message sent from Sympa to super-listmaster(s):

  context    => '*'

Context is determined when the generator class is instantiated, and generally never changed through lifetime of instance. Thus, constructor of generator class should take context object as an argument.

"localpart" is encoded in a bit complex manner.

• If the context is Site or Robot, it is a value of "email" parameter, typically ""sympa"".
• If the context is Family, it is encoded as "@family name". This encoding was added on Sympa 6.2.53b.
• If the context is List, it is encoded as local part of list address according to listtype (See also "get_address" in Sympa).