NAME
Fuse::PDF::FS - In-PDF implementation of a filesystem.
SYNOPSIS
use Fuse::PDF::FS;
my $fs = Fuse::PDF::FS->new({pdf => CAM::PDF->new('my_doc.pdf')});
$fs->fs_mkdir('/foo');
$fs->fs_write('/foo/bar', 'Hello world!', 0);
$fs->save();
LICENSE
Copyright 2007-2008 Chris Dolan, cdolan@cpan.org
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
DESCRIPTION
This is an implementation of a filesystem inside of a PDF file. Contrary to the package name, this module is actually independent of FUSE, but is meant to map cleanly onto the FUSE API. See Fuse::PDF and the mount_pdf front-end.
METHODS
- $pkg->new($hash_of_options)
-
Create a new filesystem instance. This method creates a new root filesystem node in the PDF if one does not already exist. The only required option is the
pdf
key, like so:my $fs = Fuse::PDF::FS->new({pdf => $pdf});
Supported options:
- pdf => $pdf
-
Specify a CAM::PDF instance. Fuse::PDF::FS is highly dependent on the architecture of CAM::PDF, so swapping in another PDF implementation is not likely to be feasible with substantial rewriting or bridging.
- fs_name => $name
-
This specifies the key where the filesystem data is stored inside the PDF data structure. Defaults to 'FusePDF_FS', Note that it is possible to have multiple independent filesystems embedded in the same PDF at once by choosing another name. However, mounting more than one at a time will almost certainly cause data loss.
- autosave_filename =>
undef
| $filename -
If this option is set to a filename, the PDF will be automatically saved when this instance is garbage collected. Otherwise, the client must explicitly call
save()
. Defaults toundef
. - compact => $boolean
-
Specifies whether the PDF should be compacted upon save. Defaults to true. If this option is turned off, then previous revisions of the filesystem can be retrieved via standard PDF revert tools, like revertpdf.pl from the CAM::PDF distribution. But that can lead to rather large PDFs.
- backup => $boolean
-
Specifies whether to save the previous version of the PDF as $filename.bak before saving a new version. Defaults to false.
- $self->autosave_filename()
- $self->autosave_filename($filename)
-
Accessor/mutator for the
autosave_filename
property described above. - $self->compact()
- $self->compact($boolean)
-
Accessor/mutator for the
compact
property described above. - $self->backup()
- $self->backup($boolean)
-
Accessor/mutator for the
backup
property described above. - $self->save($filename);
-
Explicitly trigger a save to the specified filename. If
autosave_filename
is defined, then this method is called viaDESTROY()
. - $self->deletefs($filename)
-
Delete the filesystem from the in-memory PDF and save the result to the specified filename. If there is more than one filesystem in the PDF, only the one indicated by the
fs_name
above is affected. If no filesystem exists with thatfs_name
, the save succeeds anyway. - $self->all_revisions()
-
Return a list of one instance for each revision of the PDF. The first item on the list is this instance (the newest) and the last item on the list is the first revision of the PDF (the oldest).
- $self->previous_revision()
-
If there is an older version of the PDF, extract that and return a new
Fuse::PDF::FS
instance which applies to that revision. Multiple versions is feature supported by the PDF specification, so this action is consistent with other PDF revision editing tools.If this is a new filesystem or if the
compact()
option was used, then there will be no previous revisions and this will returnundef
. - $self->statistics()
-
Return a hashref with some global information about the filesystem. This is currently meant for humans and the exact list of statistics is not yet locked down. See the code for more details.
- $self->to_string()
-
Return a human-readable representation of the statistics for each revision of the filesystem.
FUSE-COMPATIBLE METHODS
The following methods are independent of Fuse, but uses almost the exact same API expected by that package (except for fs_setxattr), so they can easily be converted to a FUSE implementation.
- $self->fs_getattr($file)
- $self->fs_readlink($file)
- $self->fs_getdir($file)
- $self->fs_mknod($file, $modes, $dev)
- $self->fs_mkdir($file, $perms)
- $self->fs_unlink($file)
- $self->fs_rmdir($file)
- $self->fs_symlink($link, $file)
- $self->fs_rename($oldfile, $file)
- $self->fs_link($srcfile, $file)
- $self->fs_chmod($file, $perms)
- $self->fs_chown($file, $uid, $gid)
- $self->fs_truncate($file, $length)
- $self->fs_utime($file, $atime, $mtime)
- $self->fs_open($file, $mode)
- $self->fs_read($file, $size, $offset)
- $self->fs_write($file, $str, $offset)
- $self->fs_statfs()
- $self->fs_flush($file)
- $self->fs_release($file, $mode)
- $self->fs_fsync($file, $flags)
- $self->fs_setxattr($file, $key, $value, \%flags)
- $self->fs_getxattr($file, $key)
- $self->fs_listxattr($file)
- $self->fs_removexattr($file, $key)
HACKS
- ENOATTR()
-
POSIX is missing a constant this error number (at least, not on Mac 10.4). If we detect that it is missing at runtime, we attempt to replace it by: 1) reading errno.h, 2) falling back to EIO.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Chris Dolan, cdolan@cpan.org