NAME

Meta::Digest::Collection - a collection of MD5 signatures for files.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: Collection.pm
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.02

SYNOPSIS

package foo;
use Meta::Digest::Collection qw();
my($object)=Meta::Digest::Collection->new();
$object->add_file("/etc/passwd");

DESCRIPTION

This object encapsulates a collection of MD5. This collection maps files to signatures and signatures to maps.

The class is two hashes - one mapping files to sums and the other mapping sums to files.

FUNCTIONS

new($)
add($$$)
add_file($$)
has_file($$)
has_sum($$)
TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

new($)

This is a constructor for the Meta::Digest::Collection object.

add($$$)

This will add a file name and a sum to the map.

add_file($$)

Read a file, calculate it's sum and add it to the map.

has_file($$)

Return whether the file exists in the collection.

has_sum($$)

Return whether the sum exists in the collection.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Name: Mark Veltzer
Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

0.00 MV web site development
0.01 MV web site automation
0.02 MV SEE ALSO section fix

SEE ALSO

Meta::Digest::MD5(3), Meta::Ds::Hash(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.