NAME

       Net::SFTP::Foreign::Attributes - File/directory attribute container

SYNOPSIS

           use Net::SFTP::Foreign;

           my $a1 = Net::SFTP::Foreign::Attributes->new();
           $a1->set_size($size);
           $a1->set_ugid($uid, $gid);

           my $a2 = $sftp->stat($file)
               or die "remote stat command failed: ".$sftp->status;

           my $size = $a2->size;
           my $mtime = $a2->mtime;

DESCRIPTION

       Net::SFTP::Foreign::Attributes encapsulates file/directory attributes for
       Net::SFTP::Foreign. It also provides serialization and deserialization methods to
       encode/decode attributes into Net::SFTP::Foreign::Buffer objects.

USAGE

       Net::SFTP::Foreign::Attributes->new()
           Returns a new "Net::SFTP::Foreign::Attributes" object.

       Net::SFTP::Foreign::Attributes->new_from_buffer($buffer)
           Creates a new attributes object and populates it with information read from $buffer.

       $attrs->as_buffer
           Serializes the Attributes object $attrs into a buffer object.

       $attrs->flags
           returns the value of the flags field.

       $attrs->size
           returns the values of the size field or undef if it is not set.

       $attrs->uid
           returns the value of the uid field or undef if it is not set.

       $attrs->gid
           returns the value of the gid field or undef if it is not set.

       $attrs->perm
           returns the value of the permissions field or undef if it is not set.

           See also "stat" in perlfunc for instructions on how to process the returned value with
           the Fcntl module.

           For instance, the following code checks if some attributes object corresponds to a
           directory:

             use Fctnl qw(S_ISDIR);
             ...
             if (S_ISDIR($attr->perm)) {
               # it is a directory!
             }

       $attrs->atime
           returns the value of the atime field or undef if it is not set.

       $attrs->mtime
           returns the value of the mtime field or undef if it is not set.

       %extended = $attr->extended
           returns the vendor-dependent extended attributes

       $attrs->set_size($size)
           sets the value of the size field, or if $size is undef removes the field. The flags
           field is adjusted accordingly.

       $attrs->set_perm($perm)
           sets the value of the permissions field or removes it if the value is undefined. The
           flags field is also adjusted.

       $attr->set_ugid($uid, $gid)
           sets the values of the uid and gid fields, or removes them if they are undefined
           values. The flags field is adjusted.

           This pair of fields can not be set separately because they share the same bit on the
           flags field and so both have to be set or not.

       $attr->set_amtime($atime, $mtime)
           sets the values of the atime and mtime fields or remove them if they are undefined
           values. The flags field is also adjusted.

       $attr->set_extended(%extended)
           sets the vendor-dependent extended attributes

       $attr->append_extended(%more_extended)
           adds more pairs to the list of vendor-dependent extended attributes

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Salvador Fandin~o.

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