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NAME

       Sympa::Spool - Base class of spool classes

SYNOPSIS

         package Sympa::Spool::FOO;

         use base qw(Sympa::Spool);

         sub _directories {
             return {
                 directory     => '/path/to/spool',
                 bad_directory => '/path/to/spool/bad',
             };
         }
         use constant _generator      => 'Sympa::Message';
         use constant _marshal_format => '%s@%s.%ld.%ld,%d';
         use constant _marshal_keys   => [qw(localpart domainpart date PID RAND)];
         use constant _marshal_regexp =>
             qr{\A([^\s\@]+)(?:\@([\w\.\-]+))?\.(\d+)\.(\w+)(?:,.*)?\z};

         1;

DESCRIPTION

       This module is the base class for spool subclasses of Sympa.

   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:

           $message
               Message to be marshalled.

           keep_keys => 1
               See marshal_metadata().

       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 proccessing of a single message.

           Parameters:

           no_filter => 1
               Won't skip messages when filter defined by _filter() returns false.

           no_lock => 1
               Won't lock messages.

           Returns:

           Two-elements list of message instance and filehandle locking a message.  If parsing message fails,
           list of "undef" and filehandle.  If no more message found, empty array.

           If "no_lock" is set, true scalar value will be returned in place of filehandle.

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

           Parameter:

           $handle
               Filehandle, Sympa::LockedFile instance, locking message.

           Returns:

           True value if message could be quarantined.  Otherwise false value.

           If $handle was not a filehandle, this method will die.

       remove ( $handle )
           Instance method.  Removes a message.

           Parameter:

           $handle
               Filehandle, Sympa::LockedFile instance, locking message.

           Returns:

           True value if message could be removed.  Otherwise false value.

           If $handle was not a filehandle, this method will die.

       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:

           $message
               Message to be stored.

           original => $original
               If true value is specified and $message was decrypted, Stores original encrypted form.

           Returns:

           If storing succeeded, marshalled metadata (file name) of the message.  Otherwise "undef".

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

           Parameters:

           $marshalled
               Marshalled key.

           Returns:

           Hashref containing metadata.

   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 ( )
           Instance method.  If implemented and returns non-empty string, glob() is used to search entries in
           the spool.  Otherwise readdir() is used for filesystem spool to get all entries.

       _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().

       _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 or Site.  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.

CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS

       Following site configuration parameters in sympa.conf will be referred.

       default_list_priority
       email
       owner_priority
       list_check_suffix
       listmaster_email
       request_priority
       return_path_suffix
       sympa_priority
           Used to extract metadata from marshalled data (file name).

       umask
           The umask to make directories of spool.

SEE ALSO

       Sympa::Message, especially Serialization.

HISTORY

       Sympa::Spool appeared on Sympa 6.2.  It as the base class appeared on Sympa 6.2.6.

       build_glob_pattern(), size(), _glob_pattern() and _store_key() were introduced on Sympa 6.2.8.
       _filter_pre() was introduced on Sympa 6.2.10.  marshal(), unmarshal() and "no_filter" option of next()
       were introduced on Sympa 6.2.22.