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NAME

Slackware::Slackget::PackageList - This class is a container of Slackware::Slackget::Package object

VERSION

Version 1.0.0

SYNOPSIS

This class is a container of Slackware::Slackget::Package object, and allow you to perform some operations on this packages list. As the Package's list class, it is a slack-get's internal representation of data.

use Slackware::Slackget::PackageList;

my $packagelist = Slackware::Slackget::PackageList->new();
$packagelist->add($package);
$packagelist->get($index);
my $package = $packagelist->Shift();

CONSTRUCTOR

new

This class constructor don't take any parameters to works properly, but you can eventually disable the root tag <packagelist> by using 'no-root-tag' => 1, and modify the default encoding (utf8) by passing an 'encoding' => <your encoding> parameter. Thoses options are only related to the export functions.

my $PackageList = new Slackware::Slackget::PackageList ();
my $PackageList = new Slackware::Slackget::PackageList ('no-root-tag' => 1);

FUNCTIONS

This class inheritate from Slackware::Slackget::List (Slackware::Slackget::List), so you may want read the Slackware::Slackget::List documentation for the supported methods of this class.

The present documentation present only methods that differs from the Slackware::Slackget::List class.

fill_from_xml

Fill the Slackware::Slackget::PackageList from the XML data passed as argument.

$packagelist->fill_from_xml(
	'<choice action="installpkg">
		<package id="gcc-objc-3.3.4-i486-1">
			<date hour="12:32:00" day-number="12" month-number="06" year="2004" />
			<compressed-size>1395</compressed-size>
			<location>./slackware/d</location>
			<package-source>slackware</package-source>
			<version>3.3.4</version>
			<name>gcc-objc</name>
			<uncompressed-size>3250</uncompressed-size>
			<description>gcc-objc (Objective-C support for GCC)
				Objective-C support for the GNU Compiler Collection.
				This package contains those parts of the compiler collection needed to
			compile code written in Objective-C.  Objective-C was originally
			developed to add object-oriented extensions to the C language, and is
			best known as the native language of the NeXT computer.
	
			</description>
			<signature-checksum>565a10ce130b4287acf188a6c303a1a4</signature-checksum>
			<checksum>23bae31e3ffde5e7f44617bbdc7eb860</checksum>
			<architecture>i486</architecture>
			<package-location>slackware/d/</package-location>
			<package-version>1</package-version>
			<referer>gcc-objc</referer>
		</package>
	
		<package id="gcc-objc-3.4.3-i486-1">
			<date hour="18:24:00" day-number="21" month-number="12" year="2004" />
			<compressed-size>1589</compressed-size>
			<package-source>slackware</package-source>
			<version>3.4.3</version>
			<name>gcc-objc</name>
			<signature-checksum>1027468ed0d63fcdd584f74d2696bf99</signature-checksum>
			<architecture>i486</architecture>
			<checksum>5e659a567d944d6824f423d65e4f940f</checksum>
			<package-location>testing/packages/gcc-3.4.3/</package-location>
			<package-version>1</package-version>
			<referer>gcc-objc</referer>
		</package>
	</choice>'
);

Sort

Apply the Perl built-in function sort() on the PackageList. This method return nothing.

$list->Sort() ;

index_list

Create an index on the PackageList. This index don't take many memory but speed a lot search, especially when you already have the package id !

The index is build with the Package ID.

get_indexed

Return a package, as well as Get() do but use the index to return it quickly. You must provide a package ID to this method.

my $pkg = $list->get_indexed($qlistviewitem->text(5)) ;

get_indexes

Return the list of all indexes

my @indexes = $list->get_indexes() ;

AUTHOR

DUPUIS Arnaud, <a.dupuis@infinityperl.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-slackget10@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=slackget10. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-Slackware-Slackget@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Slackware-Slackget. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Slackware::Slackget

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Bertrand Dupuis (yes my brother) for his contribution to the documentation.

SEE ALSO

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2005 DUPUIS Arnaud, All Rights Reserved.

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