NAME

Net::FTP::Path::Iter - Iterative, recursive, FTP file finder

VERSION

version 0.04

SYNOPSIS

    use Net::FTP::Path::Iter;

    # connect to the FTP site
    my $ftp = Net::FTP::Path::Iter->new( $ftp_site, $user, $password );

    # define a visitor callback routine. It will recieve a
    # Net::FTP::Path::Iter::Entry object.
    sub visitor { my ($entry) = @_ }

    # use the Path::Iterator::Rule all() method to traverse the
    # site;
    $ftp->all( '/', \&visitor );

DESCRIPTION

Net::FTP::Path::Iter is a subclass of Path::Iterator::Rule which iterates over an FTP site rather than a local filesystem.

See the documentation Path::Iterator::Rule for how to filter and traverse paths. When Net::FTP::Path::Iter passes a path to a callback or returns one from an iterator, it will be in the form of a Net::FTP::Path::Iter::Entry object.

Net::FTP::Path::Iter uses Net::FTP to connect to the FTP site.

Symbolic Links

At present, Net::FTP::Path::Iter does not handle symbolic links. It will output an error and skip them.

METHODS

new

  $ftp = Net::FTP::Path::Iter->new( [$host], %options );

Open up a connection to an FTP host and log in. The arguments are the same as for "new" in Net::FTP, with the addition of two mandatory options,

user

The user name

password

The password

ATTRIBUTES

Net::FTP::Path::Iter subclasses Path::Iter::Rule. It is a hash based object and has the following additional attributes:

server

The Net::FTP object representing the connection to the FTP server.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

You can make new bug reports, and view existing ones, through the web interface at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Net-FTP-Path-Iter.

AUTHOR

Diab Jerius <djerius@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2017 by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The GNU General Public License, Version 3, June 2007